Okay! now that orientation is out of the way and I don''t have to sit through introductory classes on "how to be a team player" or "The theory of good IT support" where we learn about the company values and why updating tickets and being honest with users is a good idea, how're things going?

Kind of mixed.
-I still don't have access to some tools. This is nothing new and happens with every job, so NBD.
-I'm going to be iffy and asking for verification on workflows for the next month or two. This is apparently expected behavior, and my predecessor and _his_ new boss are fully expecting him to be distracted by helping me get fully up to speed.
-I'm probably not going to get to slack off like I did with the River Tribe (the last 3 months notwithstanding). There are a lot of disconnected moving pieces I'm going to have to work fast to keep up in the air while I'm building the automation underneath them so I don't have to think fast anymore. And I don't know how they are all shaped yet, how fast they are going, and what breaks when they land. All things that I usually find out about when I fuck up. Trying to not have that happen this time, but its kind of inevitable. It is on my to have as much of my ass covered
-My new boss is probably going to be a hardass that I'm going to end up avoiding as much as possible until we figure out how to work together. He demanded I remove my N7 icon from visibility cause it wasn't professional, even though its basically my look and how i choose to be recognized and be available to anyone who needs me. Whatever. Its just a picture, and I've got it everywhere else!

My lack of attention span bit me last week, though, as I was on ZOOM meetings all day. going over things that are perfectly comprehensible from the intranet documentation. And my fidget cube fell out of my pants, and so maybe I was on my phone while I should've been staring at the glowing webcam dot. In my defense:

All that training could've been an email.