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I had a similar experience at a technology company in 2015. Onboarding had no training, no desks, nothing. Thrown into a Cubicle farm, with terrible chairs, and
by Overtonwindow 5y ago
I had a similar experience at a technology company in 2015. Onboarding had no training, no desks, nothing. Thrown into a Cubicle farm, with terrible chairs, and they put my desk right next to the kitchen that had a pool table. So while I’m trying to take calls from clients, there’s people literally playing pool behind me.
Took forever to get a decent office chair, then they started moving us around, a few months go by, and then we had to move to another cubicle. Then another building.
Logins wouldn’t work. Benefits, pay, nothing was up-to-date, and it got even worse when they instituted a clocking in system. People would just clock in, and then clock in all their friends at the same time. It was ridiculous.
I left about the time one of my coworkers had a heart attack and died at his desk.
All that to say, the on boarding sucked, and all of the problems that came after that were compounded upon that very bad on-boarding.
- dvtrn 5y agoYou guys are getting onboarding? I swear I kind of miss onboarding. My last two roles as a Senior were “fill out these HR forms, here’s the payroll portal, just sign up. Trust me bro. It’ll work. Ok here’s your laptop. Here’s some tickets. Standups are at time:thirty”. ]no one actually said “bro” that’s just to illustrate the level of confidence it seemed the HR person had in the payroll SaaS: none.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoI got onboarding, but I didn’t get my laptop until the next week. Being remote, this was just a bit of an issue because I was suppose to start work immediately. Fortunately, macOS happily runs off an external disk and the installer supports restoring from another macOS install. So I spent my first week booting my personal machine from an external SSD.
- odonnellryan 5y agoIs there a startup that helps companies onboard users?
- mutagen 5y agobro let's start this! Seriously though, I have enough empathy and awareness from supporting elderly friends and family navigate the digital world that I could help build seriously awesome on-boarding experiences.
- odonnellryan 5y agoI'm down!
- cfcf14 5y agoI think the startup has to genuinely care to begin with. And often they just don't have the expertise to realise what they're falling short on.
- BurningFrog 5y agoYour description fits both a terribly run deathmarch company, and a rapidly expanding successful growth company. Fully agree of noisy leisure game located in the office space. Air hockey and ping pong are the worst.
- jh00ker 5y agoHow is my comment the only comment saying: WTF he died at his desk? That's horrible! Then I remember working at an insurance company and someone trying to hang themself in a conference room. I guess that's worse.
- InCityDreams 5y agoEverybody dies, and we have to die somewhere. Dying at work just happpens to be by chance, and its (averagely) 1/3 of our day: if it had been their day off....? No problem. Having nearly died back in '20 and during my work day, i have some experience.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoOne place I worked someone died at his desk over the Christmas period, his body wasn't discovered until the new year. The whole thing was just incredibly sad because none of us knew he was alone.
- Overtonwindow 5y agoWe had multiple people have serious health issues, but it was very much a slash and burn company. Hired people, rung them out, and threw them out.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoIn my experience the companies that were bad at onboarding were bad at everything else. At one place my predecessor had been fired. I could tell he left unexpectedly because his lunch was still in his desk drawer. Three months after he left. It actually got worse from there on in.