heck, i had a consultancy gig where the customer wanted me on-site for intro 400km away, and i had to spend a few days with no hardware at all, never mind access. also it was a high-security thing so i had to be escorted around at all times until they could sort out the badge thing. very productive week, that. at least got a few hotel breakfasts out of it.
oh loads. my rate was 100€/h for that, plus travel, food, and accommodation. not that i got all of that money but it definitely hurt them more than it hurt me.
I had a job like that. It was a public secret that the night shift people were there just in case someone called - we generally got 3-5 calls per shift and there were something like 7 people. I didn’t really use Reddit at the time, but they didn’t block Netflix or Hulu so I (and most of the others) just watched those. I read a lot of books, too. Some people slept through their entire shifts. I only fell asleep once, by accident; I was always too nervous I’d miss a call. One shift a co-worker and I just played Fluxx waiting for calls.
I was at that job for eighteen months. When I left, I was worried that I didn’t know how to work anymore. I was well liked, sometimes even specifically requested, at my next job, though, so perhaps the time semi-off helped me.
My first day was sitting for 8 hours abandoned in a cubicle because my new boss forgot to put in the new hire requests for IT. No user, no email, no nothing. Only reason I had a laptop at all was because they happened to find an old one in a drawer.
I had a job where that happened, but I was fortunate enough that they called me before I left to head to them. (It was a long drive.)
Every morning they called to say “I’m sorry, we haven’t been able to get your account setup yet. Can you come in tomorrow instead?”
That lasted for a week. The last day I didn’t even bother to get ready because I figured they’d be doing the same thing and just starting me the next Monday. It was a risk but it all worked out.
I was surprised by my current job. When I walked in the first thing they did was give me a badge to open doors. The second thing they did was take me to “orientation,” which mostly consisted of them handing me a laptop and giving me the password for my already configured administrative user.
Like anyone in a corporate job has correct access on day 1
A Password is a thing that protects you from hackers. If you work here for long enough, you might even get your own account.
heck, i had a consultancy gig where the customer wanted me on-site for intro 400km away, and i had to spend a few days with no hardware at all, never mind access. also it was a high-security thing so i had to be escorted around at all times until they could sort out the badge thing. very productive week, that. at least got a few hotel breakfasts out of it.
I sure hope you got paid for just milling about.
oh loads. my rate was 100€/h for that, plus travel, food, and accommodation. not that i got all of that money but it definitely hurt them more than it hurt me.
i had a job where jack fucking shit happened. I just went on reddit all day. this was worth paying me thousands to do.
I had a job like that. It was a public secret that the night shift people were there just in case someone called - we generally got 3-5 calls per shift and there were something like 7 people. I didn’t really use Reddit at the time, but they didn’t block Netflix or Hulu so I (and most of the others) just watched those. I read a lot of books, too. Some people slept through their entire shifts. I only fell asleep once, by accident; I was always too nervous I’d miss a call. One shift a co-worker and I just played Fluxx waiting for calls.
I was at that job for eighteen months. When I left, I was worried that I didn’t know how to work anymore. I was well liked, sometimes even specifically requested, at my next job, though, so perhaps the time semi-off helped me.
My first day was sitting for 8 hours abandoned in a cubicle because my new boss forgot to put in the new hire requests for IT. No user, no email, no nothing. Only reason I had a laptop at all was because they happened to find an old one in a drawer.
This was my first month and a half one time
I had a job where that happened, but I was fortunate enough that they called me before I left to head to them. (It was a long drive.)
Every morning they called to say “I’m sorry, we haven’t been able to get your account setup yet. Can you come in tomorrow instead?”
That lasted for a week. The last day I didn’t even bother to get ready because I figured they’d be doing the same thing and just starting me the next Monday. It was a risk but it all worked out.
End of week one: “you should have your work account by this time next week… at the earliest”
They sent that as an email to the address you don’t have access to yet
I was surprised by my current job. When I walked in the first thing they did was give me a badge to open doors. The second thing they did was take me to “orientation,” which mostly consisted of them handing me a laptop and giving me the password for my already configured administrative user.
We are still working on getting your laptop. If you could quietly jork it over here, we might be able to get it to you by next week.