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Taking it slow (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 38 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

Nearly accurate. Apart from corporate job only providing you a laptop after a week or two because someone forgot to notify the IT about your starting date or the IT processing jobs in the order of receiving them rather than urgency of these.

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Don't put that shit on IT. HR is the department that can't get the fuckin onboarding form right, can't send it to the right people, or just straight up don't do one and expect us to be mind reader's.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago*

    I used to work in IT. At one point we ordered like 100 laptops from Dell, and they pretty much just said lol no. Apparently one of the business teams needed to renegotiate our contract with them or something. It was 3 months before we got any computers from Dell. Warranty replacements or otherwise. We had people with 6 figure salaries sharing laptops. We were stealing desktops from engineering to replace production systems. And no, we couldn’t get the green light to just go to Best Buy and buy some computers or anything like that.

    Gotta love corporate efficiency.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I have seen both, including the IT only placing an order one day before someone was starting.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    In my own experience as an IT tech, this is still on HR because HR is still adding people to the job past the deadline to be able to ship stuff out in time. We do what we can but we're not miracle workers. Can't ship stuff to someone if we don't have their name or address.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I worked in this specific space for a couple of years and it can be a shockingly complex process. The standard workflow is oftentimes simple, but it’s full of exceptions and considerations on both the HR and IT side.

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