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week 1 of new job
Aug. 16th, 2024 07:03 pmis in the bag. The first day was nice; they had the training room set up with notebooks, pens, highlighters, sticky notes, hand sanitizer, and lanyards. (They also fed us breakfast [donuts] and lunch [pizza and soft drinks]) Then we got temp badges and got through a lot of onboarding paperwork (all documents we filled and signed electronically and sent via email, no paper!) , then we got our computers. They walked us through sign on, had us open all the web pages and apps we'd be using to make sure we had access, made notes of who did not have access, we saved bookmarks in a uniform fashion, got an overview of the work and met the team, it was really good onboarding. We will get personalized badges in 7-10 days and then we'll have to turn in our temp badges. The badges let us in to everything in all the buildings that regular employees get to do, break rooms, conference rooms, printers, gym (!!), everything. We are invited and encouraged to join 'Teams' that ar relevant to our interests, such as 'veterans' or 'lgbt' or 'women in business,' or whatever. Such a change from the temp agencies I've been with that were very careful to clarify that we are contractors and therefore unwelcome in certain spaces and not allowed to use certain workplace perks.
Once we are settled in, this will be a 'hybrid remote' - Monday and Friday at home, Tuesday-Thursday in-office. Hours are flexible within building hours (7am-6pm) and generally people are there 8-5, but team leads are all over the country so at some point some of the people with east coast and west coast based team leads may end up adjusting. The training week was not a full 40 hours. And commuting & polluting is not my favorite activity, but it was OK. Most days the drive took about 20 min each way. Not awful. My work space is nice, open and pleasant, but not *too* open, I have my own space and it's quiet. It is spreadsheet heavy so the work laptop is not going to cut it for working from home, so I'll need to find a keyboard, mouse, and big monitor. We had many extras here at teh house for some years but finally took them to donate a few months ago of course. Ah well. I googled and discovered Goodwill Computer Works is not a thing anymore. dang it.
Tuesday thru Friday we were introduced to the spreadsheets and work process. Today we put it all together and worked an entire spreadsheet to completion. Next step once the spreadsheet is filled with all the information we can glean from internal company resources, we are expected to have a 'call' with the 'account owner' to work out details and confirm the info we have. These are super serious bigwigs, like the Account Exec for a big company like Amazon or whatever....I'm a bit intimidated on that step. Hopefully by the time we get to our first 'call' I will have a better idea of what the hell I'm talking about.
Day 2 I was feeling so overwhelmed I considered quitting. Because of course, after being out of work for months, I got a call from another staffing agency Monday afternoon with a fully-remote opportunity. dang it.
This assignment will last 6 months at minimum but it seems likely to go on, if the company has budget and interest for it.
so far I like the culture and the attitude of the people in the company, and all of the other contractors are very smart and capable. So that's nice. I've been remote since 2020 so it's a change. But i am adjusting OK. And the money is more than I've ever made in my life, so that's super cool.
Once we are settled in, this will be a 'hybrid remote' - Monday and Friday at home, Tuesday-Thursday in-office. Hours are flexible within building hours (7am-6pm) and generally people are there 8-5, but team leads are all over the country so at some point some of the people with east coast and west coast based team leads may end up adjusting. The training week was not a full 40 hours. And commuting & polluting is not my favorite activity, but it was OK. Most days the drive took about 20 min each way. Not awful. My work space is nice, open and pleasant, but not *too* open, I have my own space and it's quiet. It is spreadsheet heavy so the work laptop is not going to cut it for working from home, so I'll need to find a keyboard, mouse, and big monitor. We had many extras here at teh house for some years but finally took them to donate a few months ago of course. Ah well. I googled and discovered Goodwill Computer Works is not a thing anymore. dang it.
Tuesday thru Friday we were introduced to the spreadsheets and work process. Today we put it all together and worked an entire spreadsheet to completion. Next step once the spreadsheet is filled with all the information we can glean from internal company resources, we are expected to have a 'call' with the 'account owner' to work out details and confirm the info we have. These are super serious bigwigs, like the Account Exec for a big company like Amazon or whatever....I'm a bit intimidated on that step. Hopefully by the time we get to our first 'call' I will have a better idea of what the hell I'm talking about.
Day 2 I was feeling so overwhelmed I considered quitting. Because of course, after being out of work for months, I got a call from another staffing agency Monday afternoon with a fully-remote opportunity. dang it.
This assignment will last 6 months at minimum but it seems likely to go on, if the company has budget and interest for it.
so far I like the culture and the attitude of the people in the company, and all of the other contractors are very smart and capable. So that's nice. I've been remote since 2020 so it's a change. But i am adjusting OK. And the money is more than I've ever made in my life, so that's super cool.
