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> It's _your_ company now, go help improve it! If it were me, my answer would be: On my first day? Before my first paycheck? Before I know what I'll be doing,
by zbentley 5y ago
> It's _your_ company now, go help improve it!
If it were me, my answer would be:
On my first day? Before my first paycheck? Before I know what I'll be doing, who I'll be working for, whether any of that is going to be remotely humane or professional?
No. I will not start looking for independent process tweaks and improvements on hour 1, while being onboarding-hazed. Give me a reason to care about this gig, first.
There's a huge distance between "I accepted the offer and will do my best as a professional to earn my paycheck" and "This is my company, my community, and I have a personal interest in improving it in ways outside of my role". Meeting the bar for the first one is on me. Making me want to meet the bar for the second is on the company; good workplaces will give me reasons to get there, mediocre or bad ones won't.
- wildmanx 5y agoStraw man alarm. Nobody is talking about doing that on day 1 or hour 1. She took the time months later to rant. Could invest time months later to instead improve things. Which of course won't happen if you already made up your mind on day 1 that this all sucks because you got a laptop with a touchbar that you keep fat-fingering and thus can't stand, had to learn how the corp directory works and a desk assignment was forgotten. Really sounds like a horrible place, who would ever want to work there. /s