Harmony
A prevalent theme from The Orientation by Daniel Orozco is harmony. The many different employees may not get along together, but they find a way to successfully work together and avoid possibly awkward situations. For example, all of the employees in the avoid talking to Anika Bloom after she accurately predicted how Barry Hacker’s wife would die. Another important example is the love-hate chain with Russell Nash in love with Amanda Pierce, Amanda Pierce in love with Albert Bosch, Albert Bosch in love with Ellie Tapper, and Ellie Tapper in love with Curtis Lance. The office has three coffee pools to tolerate every employee’s coffee needs. The employees also do not tell others of any information they may know of each other; Kevin Howard is known as a serial killer, but nobody has turned him in yet. Harmony is important for this office’s ecosystem to not collapse and for its members to get along.
Complex v. Simple
Another theme from The Orientation by Daniel Orozco is the difference between complexity and simplicity. To the outside eye, the office at question may be a very complex community with relationships layered upon relationships, but in reality the system is quite simple to the employees. There are people who are friends, and there are people who are not friends. It may seem overwhelming to the newbie at first because he obviously has to digest a large chunk of information, but the newbie doesn’t seem to interrupt the orientation leader with any questions and doesn’t show any confusion over any aspect of the office. This leads to the conclusion that almost anything impossibly complex can be simplified very easily.
