Starting a new job can be scary
If you’re not already established in your field, don’t know the company all that well, or taking on a role with a higher level of responsibility, it’s totally okay if you start drinking in the parking lot. Just kidding! Start drinking at home, that gives you more time to drink and bet on horses. Lifehack!
Assuming you make it into the office and don’t spend your day betting on the pony with the best name, and HR doesn’t immediately hand you substance abuse pamphlets, you begin your glorious career as Employee #2147483647. Hooray.
But will it last? Or are there things that may have you hastily editing your resume and angrily calling your recruiter by lunch?
Office Oddity
I’ve had some strange things happen to me when I started jobs (sober, I promise) that let me know exactly how long I’d be sticking around.
- Boss wasn’t sure a second monitor was in the budget
- SA password on the whiteboard by the developer cubicles
- IT contractor passed out in the hallway outside the door
First Day, Last Day
Feel free to share in the comments if you’ve had any first day deal breakers. If you’ve ever:
- Quit by lunch
- Looked at glassdoor.com after it was too late
- Found out you replaced a dead person
This is the right blog post for you!
All of these things I do
All of these things I do
To get away from you
Altered Images – “I Could Be Happy”
Brent says: I was interviewing for a DBA job, and the final interview took place in their offices. I took a tour, and one of the IT rooms was loaded with a couple dozen student desks. Each desk was barely big enough for a single small flat panel, a keyboard, and a mouse. Any team member could reach out their arms sideways and touch the person on either side of them. I didn’t even care what their jobs were, or if I’d be working in that room – I was done right there. Any company that treats any of their people that way, isn’t somewhere I wanna work.
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