RE: Hardest part of getting started?

["Susan W. Gallagher" <SGallagher -at- akonix -dot- com>]

In a former life, one of the things we tried to do is to
assign a "buddy" to every new employee. This could be a
person in the same department as the newbie, but not a
supervisor. Having a "buddy" allows the newbie to ask
those embarassing questions like "what's the CEO's name?"
and "is it okay to call New Jersey from here?" from
someone non-threatening.

It seemed to work okay for the short time it was in
effect (before we laid everyone off and went into a 
hiring freeze and got bought and never did it again,
that is).

-swg

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