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Reporting back.
At the end of the day, after filling out payroll paperwork and getting photos taken and going on a tour of the labyrinthine architecture, my boss gathered her team together - the better for us to get to know each other and work together, and to find out we all actually do like each other - and asked us to sum up our days in one word, and why.
The one I picked was "accountability." Because it wasn't just becoming an official employee with a key card, it was also getting an understanding of the scope and scale of the projects I'll be working on, and the structure of the organization with all its moving parts and how my work fits into those, and who I'll be answering to at the end of the day.
During the meeting, I found out that even though this place is larger than any other company or organization I've worked for, by at lease one if not multiple orders of magnitude, it was structured a lot like most of them. Just to a slightly larger scale. So that was pretty nice to learn, since I know how to think about it when I walk in the door. Just more of what I'm used to, in the usual way I come into these things: off to the side, doing my own stuff, supporting everyone on a big scale but removed enough from them the abstraction helps me focus on exactly what's in front of me, and getting to know a small number of people very well and nodding politely to pretty much everyone else.
Getting my picture taken for staff ID was fairly memorable because the photographer asked me what it was behind my back, and it took me a minute and me turning around to show it to him for me to understand he'd been asking about my hair.
So all in all, my first day went well. On account of most of the day's tasks being maintenance and bookkeeping-type stuff, I was able to leave early, which was a nice way to help ease into things. It won't be the case tomorrow, but I'm sure it'll still be fine.
The one I picked was "accountability." Because it wasn't just becoming an official employee with a key card, it was also getting an understanding of the scope and scale of the projects I'll be working on, and the structure of the organization with all its moving parts and how my work fits into those, and who I'll be answering to at the end of the day.
During the meeting, I found out that even though this place is larger than any other company or organization I've worked for, by at lease one if not multiple orders of magnitude, it was structured a lot like most of them. Just to a slightly larger scale. So that was pretty nice to learn, since I know how to think about it when I walk in the door. Just more of what I'm used to, in the usual way I come into these things: off to the side, doing my own stuff, supporting everyone on a big scale but removed enough from them the abstraction helps me focus on exactly what's in front of me, and getting to know a small number of people very well and nodding politely to pretty much everyone else.
Getting my picture taken for staff ID was fairly memorable because the photographer asked me what it was behind my back, and it took me a minute and me turning around to show it to him for me to understand he'd been asking about my hair.
So all in all, my first day went well. On account of most of the day's tasks being maintenance and bookkeeping-type stuff, I was able to leave early, which was a nice way to help ease into things. It won't be the case tomorrow, but I'm sure it'll still be fine.
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