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.
paid time off.
Yeah right, and Unicorns really exist.
