well, that’s something

When I learned that my new job comes with an orientation day on day 1, I thought ‘that’s clever; makes sense.’

When I learned that it comes with a second orientation day on day 2, I thought ‘okay, so it’s like general company orientation and then job-specific; makes sense.’ (There are two locations, so that made even more sense.)

And then I learned that it *also* comes with four weeks of training after days 1 and 2. And I thought ‘wait, what?’

I mean, in some ways it’s awesome, right? I felt kind of bad that the person who took over my old job got oh, about four and a half days of training. And I’m sure there’s good some reasons for it, many of which are good! It’s just — four weeks? Is that normal?

(It’s entirely possible that it *is* normal. I’m just coming from a place where our training consisted of one 30-minute intro meeting and the advice to ‘just tell people you’re new’ until you figured out what was going on. We called it on-the-job training, when what we meant was ‘there’s no training.’)

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