Today, success is finding the bathroom, the kitchen, and a friendly face.
Fresh today · Monday, 26 October
New Wishes
A handful of wishes pulled from the cabinet this morning. Pick one up — copy, save it to your pinboard, or send it on.
May the welcome lunch be edible and the small talk be brief and kind.
A 1st day well spent is mostly listening — save the talking for later.
Here's to a calendar that gently fills, not floods, during your first eight hours.
Wishing you a kind onboarding buddy and a manager who actually has time today.
May the elevator etiquette be obvious and the dress code be slightly relaxed.
↑ pick one up
Browse by occasion
What are we writing today?
Cabinets sorted by occasion. Open one — pages are arranged by warmth, not algorithm.
- Anniversary
- Baby
- Belated
- Best
- Birthday
- Boy
- Boyfriend
- Christian
- Christmas
- Congratulation
- Diwali
- Easter
- Eid Mubarak
- Engagement
- Farewell
- Fathers Day
- Friendship
- Funny
- Get Well
- Girl
- Girlfriend
- Good Morning
- Good Night
- Graduation
- Hanukkah
- Heart Touching
- Holiday
- Invitation
- Job
- Love
- Miss You
- Mothers Day
- New Year
- Recovery
- Retirement
- Romantic
- Thank You
- Thanksgiving
- Wedding
- Well
- Women's Day
- Sympathy
- Valentine's Day
- Halloween
- Veterans Day
More from today
Bring a notebook, leave the bravado at home — day one rewards humility.
Wishing you a parking spot, a working laptop, and a tolerable orientation video.
Today's victory: remembering more names than you forget by 5 p.m.
May your new team be the kind that introduces itself without prompting.
Here's to surviving the HR slides with your enthusiasm mostly intact.
Wishing you the quiet relief of an early end to a long first day.
A 1st day done well is one you forget by Friday — meaning nothing went wrong.
May the keyboard feel familiar and the chair adjust without engineering.
Here's to a smooth login, a clean desk, and a polite hello from your neighbor.
Wishing you a first-day story that's pleasantly uneventful.
Today is the soft launch — the real product ships next week.
May the office plant on your desk be already watered and clearly not your problem.
Wishing you a 1st day with more handshakes than emails.
Here's to colleagues who say let-me-know-if-you-need-anything and mean it.
May you leave today knowing roughly where everything is and roughly who does what.
Wishing you a quiet 1st afternoon — the rest of the role can wait for tomorrow.
May your introduction in the team channel get the right number of welcome emojis.
Here's to a 1st day that ends with a small smile rather than a long sigh.
Wishing you the gift of a low-stakes first task, completed by close of business.