How many days have you been on site with no access?

[stingman123]

About 4 months that consisted of:

1. No AD account
2. No 365 account
3. No laptop for 2 months
4. No VPN on laptop when it did eventually arrive
5. Laptop posted to me - I'm assuming the VPN client was installed but couldn't check as there was no power supply
6. Power supply recieved, laptop not powering up
7. New laptop recieved, broken

My project update contained more information about my laptop than it did the actual project.......

[TheDude]

Last year I worked for one of the big banks, it took them 10 weeks to get me an account, 3 weeks before I started and 7 weeks on the job. I had to attend a half hour stand-up each day then I was free to do what I want. In the first week I got wind the project 3 of us had been contracted to do had already been completed. So even when I got access, I did maybe 4 hours work a week for the remaining 5 weeks. I left at the end of the 3 weeks.

Out of interest which bank?

In my experience the top American Banks are very slick with onboarding.

The European banks are a lot more sloppy.

[Wobblyheed]

I managed a month once...public sector obviously

[darmstadt]

Out of interest which bank?

In my experience the top American Banks are very slick with onboarding.

The European banks are a lot more sloppy.

No problems with European banks and I've done a lot of contracts at them, in fact I don't think I've ever had to wait for equipment or logon details or other requirements although I have had some very dire equipment provided.

[psychocandy]

On the flip side, has anyone EVER turned up on day 1 and had everything sorted for them?

[SueEllen]

On the flip side, has anyone EVER turned up on day 1 and had everything sorted for them?

Yes but only in small companies when the person sorting stuff out is basically next to you.

[ladymuck]

On the flip side, has anyone EVER turned up on day 1 and had everything sorted for them?

Yes. My second client (way back in 2005/6) and my current client.

Returning to a previous client doesn't count because my old account was just reactivated.

[TheDude]

On the flip side, has anyone EVER turned up on day 1 and had everything sorted for them?

Yes - at a couple of US banks.

Obviously there were loads of access requests I had to make but that is standard at all banks.

[eek]

Yes - at a couple of US banks.

Obviously there were loads of access requests I had to make but that is standard at all banks.

Likewise first time at Microsoft everything done by close of play on day 1

Second time round Laptop was day 1 access to systems just took longer because people were away..

[vetran]

On the flip side, has anyone EVER turned up on day 1 and had everything sorted for them?

Yes actually it was in a quango, the infrastructure guys were seated behind me and the Infrastructure manager really knew where his towel was. I was logged on and working by 10:15 (first day start was 10am. so you could test your route).

Also in a large Electrical manufacturer. I had a laptop, user created and the Admin passwords before 11am. Sadly such competence didn't extend to the infrastructure I took over from a third party professional services team that couldn't wait to get out of there because they were exposed as incompetent.

Small consultancy in telecoms got my ltd's computer joined first day and logins for the systems in a week (they were someone big else's systems) I spent the first week shadowing an existing person fixing simple issues to learn the ropes on the systems.

When I was an IT manager my expectation was everyone got their equipment & paperwork first day and their IT induction (no Porn, No music, no Viruses etc) in the first week. Difficult to do when a bod turned up out of the blue because the manager thought we could just magic PC's and licenses out of thin air.

Its not rare that IT know what they are doing, HR & managers though!