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[quote=BlueFredneck]I was a (contractor) sysadmin at an FAA site and am now a sysadmin at a defense contractor's office.

If you're working at a customer (i.e. government) site it will typically take longer as there's usually (almost always?) a separate group who handles account setup on the government domain. (My domain involved everything in a separate enclave that for security reasons wasn't reachable from the rest of the FAA network.)

BUT - despite all this we had folks set up for Day One about 75% of the time - the other 25% - maybe 15-20% it was due to the government domain admin group having some delay, and the rest of the time it was having under 3-4 days to get someone set up. But if we had two weeks notice we had you set up 100% of the time, accountwise and laptopwise, for Day One.

The badge - that required yet another group. It'd come in the mail deactivated. There was a separate badging station you had to fill out yet another form on, although if you had the clearances/access, they typically gave you a temp badge on Day One.

Surprised they told you to put in your two weeks as if something came up in your public trust investigation you'd be SOL and out of a job.

If someone didn't have an active clearance and had harder-to-find skills, they'd typically wait 2-6 weeks for the interim to come through. BUT they'd give you a tentative offer contingent on obtaining the needed clearances. So you'd just keep working at your old job until everyone got tired of waiting OR your clearance and other paperwork came through. If your official start day is today, I suspect you're getting paid, although I'm shocked you didn't get that clarified from your future bosses.

Some interim secrets take longer than others (depending on foreign travel, cleared family members, and your general background) - I've seen it take as little as a week and I've had other people leave after it took six months to get the interim. [/quote]

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