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.
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Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.
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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.
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love this!
paid time off.
Yeah right, and Unicorns really exist.
I was taken out to lunch for one of three jobs. And at the one where I was, it became less routine as time passed. So I've never thought of it as traditional.
I had a day off today, whee! I slept in then went to see a movie with a friend then out to dinner then grocery shopped and now home, just in time for bed. Not a bad day, really.
If not the first day, at least the first week, usually, depending on what's going on. There's usually a lunch, somehow.
This is my experience as well.
How was the movie, ChiKat?
Even as a temp I've been taken out for lunch on my last day on some jobs. When I left WGBH they threw me a going away party and gave me a ton of stuff for my cross country drive.