At my current job, my first day they didn’t even know I was coming!
I work as an aide at a school and apparently my parent company doesn’t tell people till the morning of your arrival sometimes.
They didn’t even know who the holding group that sent me was, so I ended up sitting in the teacher’s lounge all day, working on my writing, because they didn’t have anywhere to put me.
Finally, they found the email about me and figured out what they wanted me to do. I’m still working at the same place and it’s going much more smoothly than I was afraid it would after that first week.
At least I got a nice relaxing first day since I didn’t sleep more than a couple hours the night before, because I was so nervous about it. Prepared I was not, my company gives hardly any details about assignments beforehand, but I got very lucky and the staff here is very nice, and helpful and the environment is non-stressful. I actually almost got reassigned somewhere else, but requested this place and was allowed to change back to it. So no complaints.
(I write more about what I do in my post My keys to Happiness, if you’re interested.)
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