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In all my new jobs I've appreciated most the solicitous and social first day. The ergo team came to my desk and made sure I had all I needed for my body to work

In all my new jobs I've appreciated most the solicitous and social first day. The ergo team came to my desk and made sure I had all I needed for my body to work well, I was introduced to my team, a couple of senior peeps went out to lunch with me, I got a tour of the studio, etc... What really sucked, and it's probably obvious, is the time when I had to search out all my information: where I was sitting, who to talk to to get ergo stuff (and worst of all when they required a doctor's note for whatever), who my manager and coordinator were, heck who my whole team was. Not entirely on topic, but the same place also treated me like an anonymous cog: was interviewed for one project, told on my first day I would be on another, ended up on a third for two weeks, went back to another (didn't have anything to do), and then bounced two more times before they ended my contract a month early. Ugh, never going back there again.

dudul 11y ago
Damn that sounds too familiar :) Yeah the whole "fetching everything single piece of information" on the first day kills me all the time. - "Here is the git repo" - "It says access denied" - "Oh yeah, talk to Foo to get credentials, just IM him" - "How do I connect to IM?" - "Oh, go see Bar to get an account" It always sets me on the wrong foot.
- kleer001 11y ago
  Yea, work does not need to be an RPG. That's just lazy administration. I think it happens eventually with most companies over a certain size, they can disregard the little things, or I guess they stop having the need or ability to address the finer things of human interaction. I think it could be argued that information is best kept at a need-to-know-basis, but I think that also is a cold strategy, you know, not very endearing (who needs to work to be nice). Or it could be a trade off against pedagogy. Not everyone likes to have their hands held all the time. Then again this is just day one. Abstraction? Is it that the size of a company is in proportion to how dry and abstract its thinking becomes? From my arm chair economics view I've always been a fan of limited lifespans for corporations, instead of their true immortality (senescence not required).
shivakaush 11y ago
this happened to me last month ..

dudul 11y ago

Damn that sounds too familiar :) Yeah the whole "fetching everything single piece of information" on the first day kills me all the time. - "Here is the git repo" - "It says access denied" - "Oh yeah, talk to Foo to get credentials, just IM him" - "How do I connect to IM?" - "Oh, go see Bar to get an account" It always sets me on the wrong foot.

kleer001 11y ago
Yea, work does not need to be an RPG. That's just lazy administration. I think it happens eventually with most companies over a certain size, they can disregard the little things, or I guess they stop having the need or ability to address the finer things of human interaction. I think it could be argued that information is best kept at a need-to-know-basis, but I think that also is a cold strategy, you know, not very endearing (who needs to work to be nice). Or it could be a trade off against pedagogy. Not everyone likes to have their hands held all the time. Then again this is just day one. Abstraction? Is it that the size of a company is in proportion to how dry and abstract its thinking becomes? From my arm chair economics view I've always been a fan of limited lifespans for corporations, instead of their true immortality (senescence not required).

shivakaush 11y ago

this happened to me last month ..