It can safely be said that he was widely regarded as a nobody.
This was true for just about all aspects of his life, but nowhere more so than in the office where he worked. As a general rule he was simply ignored. If he ever tried holding a conversation with any one of the thirty odd staff members, he was met with complete disinterest. He would sometimes try different topics based on current affairs, or a movie he’d watched, or some interesting thing he had seen coming to work. None of this made any difference. It came down to the fact that no one was at all interested in him. Over time, he had learned to live with it.
However, this all changed on the night that the evening news on TV reported that he had gone missing. The police were involved. It was reported that shots were heard coming from his flat and when police arrived on the scene, they found the place had been thoroughly trashed and the owner was missing. His car, empty and gutted by fire, had been discovered still smouldering shortly after. As a result, the police put out a statement saying that he was ‘a person of interest’ in their ongoing enquiries.
The following morning, in the office, everybody was interested.