 I'm going to end up and bore you too much, this is just a, so first of all, a quick note about me, my name is Alison, most people may know me online as Allegria, mostly known as Ali's Rar to various people. I'm a tech writer and that's not to be confused with an IT journalist because I often get asked if I'm a journalist. I'm a red hat noob meaning that I've been there roughly four months now, so enough to be able to mostly do things by myself, but I still need my buddies around and they're both in the proof of the moment. Hi, I'm Ryan, I'm in this book about being a noob, a red hat specifically, but I've tailored the talk to be about starting a new job in general. Mainly because everyone has to do an exercise when they start to learn the tools and how to create books and everything and I thought the exercise is a little boring, so I thought I would write about what I do really well at the time and that was being brand new. So everyone's a noob when they start a new job and sometimes even when they've been there for a little while and I thought this is particularly amusing because that's pretty much where you start. The place to start I guess in any sort of new job is when you're being introduced to people, this is the time to tell people what name you prefer to be called and how to pronounce your name. I'm really blessed in that I have a really simple name to say, but I'm also, for years I was really careful to only read your books myself as Alison professionally and then that just sort of all like held with social media. But if people don't know how to say your name based on what they've seen on the screen or they don't know what you prefer to be called, there's a good chance they just won't use it and they'll refer to you as hey you and this could go for years. Also, it might be useful time to say if you don't like a particular name and you could actually stop your workplace from calling it. At Red Hat we've got a pretty casual dress policy, but to see yourself looking like a bit of a tool when you first start to work, find out what the dress code is for your particular workplace. Often you can spot the noobs because they're wearing suits that they would have worn and been completely acceptable at every other workplace. And being a little self-conscious when our HR dude is showing you around wearing shorts and a Hawaiian t-shirt. What we also use for to have in any workplace, hopefully, is they will assign you someone that knows more than you and that can show you around and introduce you to some people. They call them buddies at Red Hat. And what these guys do is not only, I guess, stop you from feeling like an absolute tool when you don't know anybody, but help you get your system set up. Some of you might be lucky and you'll get a system that's already pretty configured with all your applications and everything you ever need to know and you just need to put in your username and password when you finally get it. We have to set up our system from scratch. And if you've never used Linux before and some of the news that I started with hadn't, it's really, really daunting. Consequently, you will break things. This is okay. You have to be able to make mistakes and go, you know what, I tried this and I screwed it up and can you please help me fix it? Ideally, they won't laugh at you too much, but it depends on how badly you do it. The unique from every other place I've been at is we mostly communicate using text. A lot of workplaces prefer, you know, and they're happy for people to get up and walk around and talk to each other, but our offices are eerily quiet because we're all talking furiously on IRC. Consequently, we actually have meetings in IRC, which is awesome when you have to be in two meetings at once. So how your workplace communicates and how you as a person communicate, if these two are not in alignment, you are in for some really interesting times. Another thing that tends to happen is management structures. If you're going from being micromanaged and having someone watch your every move and monitoring when you take a lunch break and you know, are you more than five minutes late to the office? Are you sitting at your desk by this particular time? You may be annoyed by having no one care if you show up at 8 o'clock or at 9.30, provided you get your deliverables done. Chances are you won't have a manager sneak up behind you and bust you on Facebook and make a big deal out of it. Help, Facebook's even unlocked at our work. So it's mainly the way that they've approached it is by giving people more power, you're actually deliverable because you're trusted to do what you need to do. As well, we get amazing options like working from home once you've achieved a particular length of time or qualification. This may be worth asking about because some people prefer to work at home. Not always an office doesn't work for everybody. I know that at our workplace we need a particular qualification that says that we know how to use a leak system well enough to work it by ourselves and if we break something we can fix it. Stuff that is fun to red hat is pretty much an unlimited supply of coffee and coke and kitchen goodies which unfortunately the work from home don't get so much. I still recommend that you take care of your package once a month. I'm so full of that. I think everyone should take your red hat and let them know that their poor remote workers are not getting the decent service. We're so sure. Take it off the union pile. Sorry. I want you to bring in. Can save you from lugging a lot of things back and forth. I'm also finding out whether there are any traditions in your workplace where everyone goes out for lunch on heyday or they have a particular morning tea or cake days and they're quite popular amongst the office. Workplaces tend to sometimes get right and sometimes not is balancing the amount of time that you work and the amount of time that you don't work at work. By being able to take breaks when you need them and you're usually the best person to pick that as opposed to at a designated time if you're feeling stressed out about something you can go and play a polaroid card. Go take a walk. Go have a cigarette because if you're running late behind something there's a good chance that you're probably going to expect yourself to stay back at your office and finish that so that you finish on time. So that's basically where we're at. Something that I found and I very hopefully pointed out to our Brisbane GM was that in our logo is a dinosaur and how many people have actually seen the dinosaur in the logo? Oh, this is going to be great. You're going to go for a shave anyway. I'm in front of a candle doing a shave and it was a hand on the wall. That was my question slide. If you press it far away I probably won't work anyway. Escape. At the end. It's all over. If I talk and tell him it won't work it's about going to present a new book or bits of it that I could. We're actually hiring so if any of that sounds appealing to you there's things that happen at Red Hat in Brisbane and if you're interested or you know someone else who might be then feel free to come and grab one. Any questions? Yes. When is Red Hat getting off at the airport? Good question. I'm glad you're up. You can't if I answer. No, no, no. There's me. I'm taking a variety. There is a couple of sales guys. We do have a train up and left. There's a few bits and pieces and one particular guy has wanted a camera office for a very long time and has petitioned to have a camera office for a very long time. I don't think it's going to happen. He still believes it will. There is actually an official minimum number that he's supposed to have depending on which room you listen to is anywhere in between five and ten. I don't think we're going to... If we start hiring madly in camera and we end up with ten people, there's chance of probably an end up in the office as it is, I don't think it's likely. So the answer is probably no, there won't be a camera office in there. Yes, that's very exciting. I don't know.