I thought it would never end

Man what a long first day on the job. For starters I went in early, around 2:30, because I needed to get my picture taken for my ID. When I learned that I wouldn't be able to have it done til Wednesday, I should've known something was afoot.
Fortunately my buddy Bong stuck around a little while, til about 4 o'clock, to show me around a little before he went home. Little did I know that would be the last meaningful interaction I would have for the next 6 hours!
What was so maddening about that span of time was that there were people there, I met Lee and Jerry who have been with the company for a combined 100 yrs, but they weren't the chattiest guys I've ever met. Combine that with the fact that I had no idea what any of my duties were or what the hell goes on that justifies me sitting there literally twidling my thumbs and you can see my dilemma.
Finally this guy named Steve comes in around 9:30 and he's apologizing for being late. At this point I could care less, I was just glad someone was talking to me. As it turned out Steve has also been with the company since the invention of the cotton gin and proceeded to take me through what he 'expected' of me. I have to give the guy credit, he seemed like he knew what the hell he was talking about and I was glad because at least time was going by a lot quicker once he got to work. Steve guided me around what appeared to be the world's oldest working mainframe and I struggled to keep up with the breakneck pace in which he spit out his outdated jargon.
Before I knew it the guys from the 3rd shift i.e. the graveyard shift showed up around 11:45pm and I was done with all the tasks Steve had assigned me. Since there was nothing left for me to do I exited the building and walked off into the humid night air to head home and decompress from my first full day of work.