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Originally Posted by JD001
At least you had a week in the office, I presume that you met your work colleagues etc. I met 2 of my work colleagues on my first day, the mail man and that was it.. since then I have been remotely doing induction courses and reading lots and lots of stuff... The project that I was meant to be working on has stalled because of the virus.. so looking at new projects.. Have a call with my boss today to discuss "other" stuff..
Good luck with your new job and I'll keep you all posted with developments regards my new job..
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Yeah, that’s rough. Something nice someone started where I am is a weekly random pairing of two people from across the org for a short (15-30 minute) “coffee” chat. Last week I was matched with someone from Germany and it was like 5pm their time so they had a beer. But that way you get to meet someone from the same working group but outside your team.
Kind of a nice way to break up this weird monotony.
My immediate teammates aren’t really very friendly yet. Nobody pings me on chat or anything, or responds to joke messages in the team chat really. My manager is pretty good, he’ll message and ask how I’m doing, and the most experienced senior engineer is pretty friendly. But the others never had enough time to warm up to me (important since engineers tend to be very introverted). Makes it tougher since I live at home alone. So if nobody’s pinging me the other than one daily short meeting I’m not talking to anyone throughout the day.
It’s made me almost regret leaving my old job because at least I had friendly coworkers and work relationships established already.
Hopefully we’ll figure it out! Crazy times.