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Re:Ask HN: Best practices for onboarding new employees? by jhallenworld on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:01PM (#17249440)
>Ask IT to get them a laptop

Hah! It's never ready in time :-)

Although one startup I worked for was bought by IBM. We were issued our new (Thinkpad) laptops on takeover day (very organized) and were introduced to this thing called "Lotus Notes". We had all been using Thunderbird so this was quite a shock.

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Re:Ask HN: Best practices for onboarding new employees? by privacypoller on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:26PM (#17249677)
Generally true - I had a contracting engagement start where they paid me to sit there and "program without a computer" for more than a week while they tried to get one built.

My most recent start however was super-refreshing; Brand new computer with all standard developer software, network connections and accounts setup and waiting for me at the start of day 1. The phone that I never use but was required to get took another week to get setup & configured however...

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Re:Ask HN: Best practices for onboarding new employees? by madengr on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:10PM (#17252470)
The sad thing is that Outlook is better than Notes.
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