Being new was hard for you too. Don’t hand that weight down to the next hire.

Hazing tends to be passed along rather than invented, and from the inside it feels like fairness, since nobody made it easy for you either. That logic keeps the difficulty circulating forever with no one gaining anything from it. What you actually remember about your own first weeks is whoever broke the pattern, not the people who kept it going.

Tell the new person the thing nobody told you, early and before they ask. Show them where things are and who to go to. Ten minutes of orientation removes a fortnight of quiet misery and costs you almost nothing.