Those of you who actually have jobs...
Are you given a workspace, or are you generally expected to bring your own laptop? I start my first day tomorrow and my only laptop is covered in autistic hackathon/open-source project stickers and my job is in a fairly conservative non-tech environment.
Your work should issue you a locked down botnettop with data loss prevention software bogging the system down. Spies are an ever growing concern as more and more chinese trickle into tech
Whats wrong with that, you are the "tech guy" of the room
this.
Additional question: is wearing jeans with a button down too lazy? My manager specifically said "Nice pants with a button down or polo. Those pants can be jeans. Just no dirt, holes, etc."
Feel like wearing jeans is still b8
so? stickers are autistic anyway, regardless of environment. it will be fine
jeans are perfectly fine. something else if meeting with a client for the first time
Error on the side of Over dressing your first day, see how others dress and go from there
Thanks lad. A final question as I'm a fresh grad and have no clue how all this minutiae type shit works: should I bring a lunch? We have a cafeteria there where you can buy lunch.
Since polos are worse than the plague, it can't be bad to show up in jeans.
Depends. They should have told you what's common to do before you start.
Unless you got told that the cafeteria exists but isn't used, go there for the first few days to meet your new colleagues.
It depends entirely on the company.
Our policy is to let no external devices into the network.
You want to use a notebook at work? We'll buy and configure you one. Which amounts to getting you a decent one with an SSD and installing the Citrix client.
It's an industrial kinda place, I'm mostly doing embedded c++ with some Node/Python desktop application shit. Doesn't really seem like anything they'd be keeping big wraps over.
Don't take it the first day if they haven't told you to bring one. If they don't provide one and you need one then you can't remove your autism stickers and take yours in
No, they'll give you one if you need it.
Stop being a cuck, your company isn't going to give you money for free so you shouldn't be giving your company the free benefit of hardware that you paid for.
If the work that you're doing requires that you have a laptop, then make your company pay for it.
>wanting to do well on your first day at your first job makes you a cuck
Depends on the job and company.
Software development or desk support for any major company, sure. A mom and pop shop would be a coin flip.
I think your best bet is to have some humility, send an email or call or fb message to your immediate superior and ask.
Play it off for laughs;
> This is really silly of me, but...
Unless you know the work atmosphere is not conductive to that.
Leave yourself a calendar reminder to get rubbing alcohol or something to remove the stickers. So if you find out you need to use your own machine, you can be prepared for tomorrow.
real jobs give you a computer lmao
my job issued me 2 monitors, a keyboard and a thinkpad with a ubuntu usb installer.
This. Also antivirus that makes the SSD feel like a 1995 HDD and some fucking management service that logs info about every new process into a huge ass XML file. I guess that system wasn't made for Unix-style build tools.
>Are you given a workspace,
Yes, and power tools. We buyin more laptops soon too. Still bring my own personal tools.
I have desktop computers for various purposes at work, but I prefer using my laptop. No place like ~.
Take them off? You're expected to act and look professional from what I gather. I work in a b2b start-up that has been semi successful the past year or so, I can show up in my PJs and no one would even glance twice, the only person who tries to look "professional" is this old hag who does the accounting. I'm pretty sure she's trying to get some dick, she looks like an air hostess out of a porn movie half of the time. I don't have any stickers on my laptop, but a lot of the younger people do and I've never seen anyone complain about it.
Bigger companies who don't want any security compromises maybe, but even those sometimes make you use your own laptop, or buy you one to take home with you so you can basically work overtime without being paid at home and when you can't show up at the office. I personally spent a week 'working from home' last month because I had a throat ache for two days and had finished what I was working on a week before deadline.
Junior sysadmin here. Can confirm.