New Guy Beware

A little advice for somebody starting a new job: the new guy always gets stuck being friends with the person nobody else likes. When you first start out you don't know who to stay away from. You talk to everybody. Nobody bothers to tell you to avoid the loud talker, overtalker, mean person or the one who'll invite himself to your apartment to play Magic: That Gathering. Next thing you know you've made a friend. You don't find out until two months later, when you get invited out but asked not to bring so-and-so, that they're the person nobody likes. Then it's too late. You've made a friend. And it's only because you're the only person who talks to them. Now you're stuck with them because it's too late to start being mean.