Well at least I am not thinking of you as a new employee. Having been here over 30 years, I attach, mostly facetiously, the new employee tag to everyone with less than 10 years. I have also been known to tell people they can't eat the peanut MMs until they have been here a year. So far no one has believed me.

But to your main point, I have also found being nice to people to have extra benefit when things change and people come back into your everyday work life.