1st day on the new job... great people, great pay, good commute, and it went well as first days go.

 unlike the last time I had to onboard with HR, this one was cool. That last one lost her mind about dumping cig butts in the company parking lot. 

I don't smoke. 

But she was in hyper attack mode, no idea why

Anyway, new job hours, 630 to 3pm, so that's ok. Been for ever since I woke up that early to go to work, I kid you not, 2009 or so.

The job (and I wasn't really filled in on it, because in the interview, we only talked about my last jobs) is to be a tech lead. Well, I've been a tach for over 10 years, why the hell not. 

I spent the morning in a meeting, and following along as the supervisor who was doing this job as lead, took and went through reports. Yup, the cure for insomnia, and I had no caffeine, because before you can do that, you have to learn what the new company allows at the work station, cups? Closed containers? With or without a straw? No drinks at all and only water? Yeah, that's bullshit, but that's General Atomics for worker bees, and NOT for ANYone with a desk job, just those with a work bench, the big majority.  The people with permanent slump jobs can have open cans or bottles or coffee cups. 

Anyway, back to this company, which pays regular pay if you get on jury duty. I like that, no wasting your PTO for unpaid Jury Duty. They have a couple other cool benefits, that I don't recall. Only 80 hours of PTO until you've been there 3 years, and that's not cool, the military was 30 days, and Raytheon was 120 hours (3 weeks). Those are "good" amounts. Less than that, you're getting mediocre benefits. I bet white collar types and especially the C suites, all get more than 80 hours to start. 

It's close enough to an In and Out to get back in 28 minutes, so, that was lunch on day 1!