I think your first day of work is your best day of work.
- Everyone is nice. Nobody hates you.
- You don’t have any responsibility or accountability.
- Someone will probably take you to lunch.
The worst part of your first day of work is doing the paperwork that accompanies a new job.
But you know what makes the first day of work even more insufferable than a pile of paperwork? Having a local HR team pretend like your first day on the job isn’t work.
Read the whole post over at Laurie Ruettimann’s The Cynical Girl (an FOT contributor blog).
Laurie Ruettimann is a writer, speaker, and entrepreneur based in Raleigh, NC. She’s working on her next book about fixing work due out in 2020.