This reminds me of Calvin Trillin's pride when his 4-year-old daughter, raised in New York, said "Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?"

swooches Ginger.

Ooof. Evil blocked places.

I have not yet attempted to access much from new work.

Especially because the monitor was near to giving me a migraine (and I barely looked at it all day).

Do y'all think it's routine to take a new employee out for lunch the first day? I thought it was, but perhaps I am mistaken.

I am overwhelmed and emotional.

swooches meara - just 'cause.

first days suck. you don't.

Um - monitors are one of my migraine triggers - so if yours is hedging your migraine, then yes -speak up. If I have to help someone with an old crt fix something, I am blind in about 3 minutes.

ION, the freelance I accepted on cold meds last week just phoned and asked if I'd be offended if they went with someone who could do the work a week earlier, and - guessing, cheaper - I said absolutely not. then they asked if I would mind hanging around on pending until they got the confirm from the other someone that they would take the job.

t /losing that agency's phone number.

Do y'all think it's routine to take a new employee out for lunch the first day? I thought it was, but perhaps I am mistaken.

If not the first day, at least the first week, usually, depending on what's going on. There's usually a lunch, somehow.

I don't think I've ever been taken out to lunch.

Really Plei? Huh. At both of my previous companies, when we had a new person, the team would go out to lunch on their first day--partly as a "we know you didn't bring your lunch on the first day, and don't know anyone, and now you can meet us not standing in a cube" sorta thing. Depending on the company and the time, it might be "whole 20 person department" or "four people you'll be working on a project with" and might range from "pretty darn nice restaurant" to "random Thai place down the street", but...

I was pretty surprised when the director was like "Oh, did you bring your lunch? Let's go grab something" and drove me to a deli where we each bought our lunch, snarfed it in about 15 minutes, and drove back. Sigh.

At my sister's company if you take a new person out to lunch you can comp the entire meal. I think it's for the first week but it might be longer.

granola

The Heroes WnP is on East Coast time so I should stay out of there until I've watched this week's episode, right?

then they asked if I would mind hanging around on pending until they got the confirm from the other someone that they would take the job

I'm pretty sure I would have laughed at them.

Well, part of it is that I started contracting after college, and both of my non-contract gigs started as contract slots. So by the time I was Velveteen Employee, I already knew everyone.

Frankly, I'm still shocked by things like paid time off.