In the third season of the HBO show Girls, the main protagonist, Hannah Horvath, gets an office job. Quitting her position as a Brooklyn barista, she starts freelancing in “advertorial”—ads that also have editorial content—at GQ Magazine. However, during her first few days, she struggles to navigate the company’s organizational culture. When chatting with a friendly colleague, she’s told not to let the others hear her say she “works” at GQ—since she’s not a full-time employee. In a meeting, she dominates the discussion and shoots down the one idea of another, more established colleague—who later tells her outright that he doesn’t like her. And in an especially uncomfortable scene, she tells her new supervisor that she doesn’t plan to be there for long, because she wants to be a “real” writer. (Her supervisor, unsurprisingly, is not impressed.) Though Hannah’s faux pas are humorous, it can be confusing to understand and establish professional relationships if one hasn’t worked in an organizational environment before. In the following sections, we’ll look more closely at the most common professional relationships.