Irony

There is this newbie in the office, who thinks he has it all, and is all that.

The truth is, he isn't. The fact that he is only nice to me in the office made gossips murmur on the corridors. Yes, he is only nice to me because I'm the only one who 'gets' him. Or so I thought.
Coming from a consulting firm, he thinks he's so bagus. With a masters and another degree on the way, not to mention literacy in French and Spanish, well, who doesn't?

When he first came, he was already showing arrogance, or perhaps, in a more polite way, lack of liking for people who wants to get to know him.

Then, he started to say things like:

Him: Is there anything useful I can read around here?
Girl in office: Let me see, ah, I have something. It's a framework guideline. Not really the updated version but useful and still the same in principal.
Him: (browsed the document for a few seconds) This is 10 years old.

Unsurprisingly, he handed back the document to the girl without even a word of thanks.

Another incident:

Him: Hey, A, can you please email me a copy of those slides?
Girl A: Yeah sure. I'll do it later.
Him: Alright.

A few days later, he shot an email to Girl A's big boss complaining about Girl A not being cooperative. Not that she was, she just got tied down with other things. He could've at least followed up once or twice, couldn't he?

Today's incident:

Me: You know, we need to call these people to see if their guidelines are any good for us - just as a benchmark. By the way, people will start calling us once we implement this.
Him: I hate talking to people here. People in this company are already a pain in the ass. Maybe we should just not implement this.

By the way, I figured, I'm the only one he goes out lunch with, which I am avoiding starting today.

I also figured it seems he's only nice to me because we work together on a certain project. Since the work is already completed, I'm finally seeing his true colours.

It's obvious now that everybody thinks he is the real pain, not the other way around.