How to Spend Your First Two Weeks at a New Job
On the Saturday before I started my new job I read an article in the Globe and Mail that had as its theme the counter message to that which is among the foundational concepts of the new organization I work for.
On my second day on the job, I mentioned the article and suggested our reaction should be a response from the president, floated some messages such a response should hold and received in return some indication that the Globe article had been seen and found damaging and it was on the agenda of things about which my input should be sought. It took another 4 working days to get into the president's office to confirm my approach, another day to write the article, another to have it signed off (with nary an edit and a single comment -- "love it") and another couple days for the Globe to, yes, published the article. Not sure if my timeline adds up, but the article appeared today, my two week anniversary at the new gig.
Not a complete home run for an old-school newshound like me as the article was published as the feature online comment and "all" we got in the ink and newsprint edition of the paper was a teaser box with graphic along with the president's name leading people to the article on the paper's webpage.
But I'll take it, thank you very much. The president is delighted and my boss is delighted. Not bad for two weeks on the job -- very important in the school of rest on one's laurels :)
Won't link to the article as I believe firmly that ghost writers should remain so.
On my second day on the job, I mentioned the article and suggested our reaction should be a response from the president, floated some messages such a response should hold and received in return some indication that the Globe article had been seen and found damaging and it was on the agenda of things about which my input should be sought. It took another 4 working days to get into the president's office to confirm my approach, another day to write the article, another to have it signed off (with nary an edit and a single comment -- "love it") and another couple days for the Globe to, yes, published the article. Not sure if my timeline adds up, but the article appeared today, my two week anniversary at the new gig.
Not a complete home run for an old-school newshound like me as the article was published as the feature online comment and "all" we got in the ink and newsprint edition of the paper was a teaser box with graphic along with the president's name leading people to the article on the paper's webpage.
But I'll take it, thank you very much. The president is delighted and my boss is delighted. Not bad for two weeks on the job -- very important in the school of rest on one's laurels :)
Won't link to the article as I believe firmly that ghost writers should remain so.
posted by Heipel at
10:01 PM
8 Comments:
Nice. Rather a contrast to your previous experience, isn't it?
/rh, what? You mean actually getting to talk to the president directly? :)
A+ from the prez, not too shabby Heipel. Now that you set the bar high, you gotta keep it up. :)
clap clap clap!!!....
so proud of you!!... :)
Maggie, keeping it up has never been a problem for me...
Joon, I prefer applause over a dose of the clap clap clap! :)
Well, la-te-da, excuse me. :)
well clearly you haven't spent the next two weeks blogging you lazy fuck.
Yeah....... no matter how Mark eloquently put it, I hope you're still "up" to it. :)
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