More stick, less carrot

It's day 4 and I finally have a working desktop and a phone at my desk. I had heard horror stories of people having to wait weeks before getting a desktop, so I had started bothering people from day 1. What do you know, the nagging helped and I had a desktop and two monitors on my desk by the end of the first day. The nice IT guy told me that the appropriate DNS entries and MAC address mappings will take a few hours so things should be active by the morning. I stopped by the tech stop and thanked them for getting this done so quickly. Positive reinforcement and all; after all I would still need a lot of other things from these folks. Sometimes people just India a bad name. That was so easy. I'll be up and running faster than when I joined in Mountain View.

Not so fast, young Skywalker. Getting a desktop doesn't always mean it is a working desktop. First my hostname was not registered, then I couldn't log on, then ... To make a long story short (not really), it took me three days of constant nagging to get a working computer.

The phone is another story - they ran out of licenses. Honest mistake. We just didn't anticipate that we'll be hiring any more people with Q4 numbers not meeting expectations and all.

I shouldn't complain. It's all coming together, slowly. The fact that I am productive in less than a week's time far exceeds even the most optimistic of my expectations. Now about that apartment and cell phone.