Stranger in a strange land

So, this is my first time working in a business setting, and I have to say that for an introverted feeling type (although the MBTI I took here says I'm an INTP), it's very different. This is a setting where I am constantly surrounded by extroverted thinking types. That puts me in a lot of awkward situations, on top of all those situations that come with working in an office to begin with (If you've ever seen The Office, or work in an office environment you know what I'm talking about). I've been working here for two months now, and here are a few highlights:

1. First day of work at a huge company. The worst part about this is trying to remember the names of all the people.

2. We've got this one guy here that is a no-holds barred kind. He was once told that his filter is not inside his head, but outside. Meaning, that when he says something he doesn't think first, and but always feels sorry for having said it afterwards. This is a very true description of him. He sings Broadway tunes wherever he goes, yells out random things at large meetings, and tells stories with an unmistakable falsetto voice.

3. I am a part of a team that includes four people. About two weeks ago our boss asked for five minutes in what's called a "Huddle Room", which is basically a meeting room. She preceeded to tell us that she was leaving the company on the 14th of this month. There we sat for about 20 mintues as our boss cried, trying to think of something to say that would be appropriate for the situation. This all comes after hearing our Director of Finance chew our boss out earlier in the day for a mistake she made on a report that went straight to the top of the company. Which leads to my next entry....

4. Our boss tells us that she needs our resumes because our Director has requested to assess our background and potential development within the company. Then by chance my co-worker asks our Director why he needs that, and the reply is that he never asked for it, which then leads him to believe that our boss is trying to steal us away from the company when she finds a new job somewhere else. So we decide behind our boss' back that we're not going to send her our resumes, hoping it doesn't turn into anything between us, or between her and our Director. Which leads to my entry....

5. Our boss calls us in the "Huddle Room" a couple days after the resume incident, and tells us that she has been asked to leave the company that afternoon, a week before she was supposed to leave. So, we're all shocked and we have to once again go through the whole "try and find something appropriate to say" ordeal in that ridiculously quiet and claustrophobic "Huddle Room". Which leads to my next entry...

6. Our Director quickly throws a pizza party togethor for her farewell. Our entire team (about 8 people)sits in a meeting room with some Pizza Hut in front of us wondering how in the world it came to this. My boss has been axed, and now we're eating Pizza Hut to say goodbye to her. It is such a weird paradox of circumstances to be saying goodbye to someone by eating pizza. You'll never see such passivity during a meal as when someone is being booted from your company. I think there was a pizza and a half worth of leftovers.

Anyways, that's how it goes here at American Express.