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Touchy Feely Paperwork
I have a new Job beginning Monday. It's a 3-month contract (to start). With luck, it can be extended, but this is not assured. It's through an agency (as most "contracts" are these days in "nobody is independent" California.)
Of course, before I start I have to fill out paperwork. There is a lot of paperwork.
Some of the paperwork was sent to me electronically as soon as the offer came through. I filled out the forms on the computer (they were all in MS Word format), printed the pages that required signatures, then sent everything back electronically, faxing only the signature pages. Simple and efficient.
But I wasn't done yet. There was yet more paperwork to come, including another NDA (this time with the Agency), an I-9 "right to work in the US" form, and three or four more "required forms". These weren't sent to me electronically. I had to sign them in person.
The Agency rep claimed that the Agency's ISO procedures require employees to sign all Agency papers in person. She said they want to see the people they will be representing. "After all", she said "you're going to be our employee".
I've already been through the interview with the client. If there was anything weird about me in person, it must not have bothered them. After all, they offered me the Job. But no. I have to come into the Agency to sign these last few papers in person.
The Agency is not far from where I will be working. However, I expect to take public transit, specifically commuter train and employee shuttle, to the Job. There is no such option for the Agency. So, I have to drive.
That's 40 miles and approximately an hour each way by car. All so I can shake someone's hand, smile, sit in a cubicle for 10 minutes, sign 5 sheets of paper, listen to a brief explanation of what's in the packet I've been given, learn that time cards will be explained on my first day at the Job, smile, shake hands one more time, hand back the paperwork, and leave.
Everything but the handshake and the smile could have been accomplished as easily by FedEx Overnight Delivery. Maybe for my next Job...
June 9, 2006 in category Career Center, Relationships | Permalink
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I would love to know how your job is going? This is July 10th 2006, and you posted this on June 9, 2006 without any updates!
Posted by: Roxanne Veinotte at Jul 10, 2006 3:44:34 AM
Thanks for asking!
This is my "secondary" weblog where I post more in-depth essays, so the most regular updates tend to come more often at my "primary" weblog, Slightly Off Kilter... which is also to say that if you don't see anything here, it means the job probably isn't frustrating me enough to write about it! That, and I'm often too tired to write anything at all. :-/
Then again, my entry entitled Hit The Ball, Drag Fred, could just as easily have been posted in commentray! Perhaps I should cross-post it here.
Posted by: Vicki at Jul 10, 2006 8:48:13 PM
