Baptism of Fire

After nearly two decades of living a sheltered life (three decades for truants), new college graduates will now enter the "real world," an alien place where people are nastier than the bullies at school (if they were not the bullies in the first place), where cherished values are compromised for the sake of career advancement or keeping one's job, where friendships are lost or forged in the fiery furnaces of the corporate world. Some will realize that they were only prepared academically and not well-equipped to deal effectively with the lunatic personalities that they will encounter.
They will meet the unreasonable boss, the boss who loves to play favorites and the sex-starved boss.
As for their colleagues, they will encounter the Stasi agent who will never fail to convey his bellyaching to the bosses, the power-trapping maniac who swaggers like the CEO owing to his association with the powers-that-be even if he is just the clerk who lights the Boss's cigar and the rumormonger (every office has one).
One of the most bitter lessons that an idealistic and hard-working youth will learn is that hardwork, without doing a little PR with the bosses, won't translate to moving to a higher rung in the ladder. He will only learn these lessons after he has been burned twice, thrice. He will learn to hold his tongue, laugh at the corny jokes of his Boss, retaliate with blacker lies when he has been besmirched and pretend to be dumber than his dumb Boss (aides of politicians are peerless in this field!).
Welcome to the Real World!!