Monday, 9am
Callum (Rex's new manager): Welcome aboard! Here's your laptop. Shout if you need anything.
Already halfway out of the door.
Rex's first year · Story 1
Rex's first week
Rex has just joined the organisation as an assistant engineer. Nobody has shown him where anything lives.
Rex's diary
Rex's diary, before this story. Day 1. New job at a big Tier 1, on a massive project. Got a laptop and a login. Nobody's said where anything lives yet.
Without a map
Monday, 11am
Alex: Drawings? Some are on the big system, some are on the shared drive, and Dave keeps the site ones in his van. Probably.
Designer, trying to be helpful.
Wednesday
Rex doesn't know what systems exist, or where anything should live. He asks Stevie, his mentor, who draws it from memory on a notepad. It looks like a plate of spaghetti.
Thursday
Rex finds a folder called OLD STUFF and uses a calculation template from it. Bloody hell, Rex! It's three years out of date!
A month later
Rex: There's ANOTHER drive?
A month in, and Rex is still discovering new places where information lives. Like an explorer, but sadder.
The result
Every new starter pieces it together from scratch. Everyone's picture is different. None of them are right.
Nobody drew Rex a map.
Find out what the map should showLesson 1 · The Town, then the same story done the right way.
Meet RexAssistant engineer, first day. Look for the curly hair under the hard hat: we'll follow him through his first year, learning this with you.
Meet AlexDesigner, at the design firm Rex's company works with. Makes most of the drawings you'll follow.
Meet DaveSite manager. Thirty years on site, and the person all this work is for.
Meet SamLooks after how information is handled on the job. Gives advice in orange boxes, whether you asked or not.
Meet StevieEngineering surveyor, and Rex's mentor. Patient, Scottish, and always asking to see your working.