🍱 Onboarding Samples Nourishment’s Lunch — “Taste Orientation”

Date: 22 October 2025
From: Office of Onboarding (OB)
To: All Staff, Department of Self Love
Subject: Orientation Lunch — Sampled, Savoured, Remembered

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Transcript

OB: (entering) We’re here for… orientation?
N&E: Correct. Today’s module: Taste Orientation.

(A sampler tray is placed before each Onboarding rep, labelled like an induction kit.)

• ❤️ Red Chicken Curry with tomatoes → “Courage you can chew.”
• 💛 Slow cooked Sweet Corn soup → “Energy in a spoon.”
• 💚 Stir-fried Bok Choy with garlic → “Growth, seasoned.”
• 💙 Fresh Blueberries → “Rest you can taste.”
• 🍫 Dark Chocolate Square → “Morale booster — mandatory.”

OB: (sniffing soup) Is this… part of the test?
N&E: Orientation is not theory. It is practice.

(They take a tentative bite, then another. Notes are scribbled, not in clipboards, but in hearts.)

OB Intern: (whispers) This is the only test I want to repeat.
OB Lead: (laughing) Failures come with seconds?
N&E: Always.

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Reflection

We came expecting instructions. We left with full bellies and a new motto: you remember a good lunch longer than a good PowerPoint.

Respectfully submitted,
Office of Onboarding
“Because orientation should feed you, too.”