Today a new Design Engineer joined the team. You would have thought he showed up on a cold call sales visit. He was hired a month and a half ago and his start date, of today, was known for weeks. Yet when he showed up this morning, he had no desk chair, no phone, and his computer was not ready for him. Plus the CAD software, which is required for his job, was not installed yet.
Nothing says "Welcome to the Team!" like showing up for your first day of work and; find your new boss unavailable because he's in the Monday Morning Production Meeting, have no place to sit, have a computer you can't log into (and even if you could, you can't start working), and not having a phone to let IT know they haven't finished the task they had a month to do.
There is no excuse for this. Even before he was hired, the powers that be knew there needed to have a work space set up. There should not be a scramble by IT and fellow team members to set things up while the new guys stands around. It took half the day to get his work area setup. Granted the first day is never productive, but this is just pathetic. Now the new hired might have seeds of doubt sown about his new job. Another example of a bad first impression that is totally avoidable.
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