Plan a new starter's first two weeks

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The new starter's role:
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The team, the people they will work with, and what the team is working on now:
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Plan their first two weeks.

For each day, give no more than three items: who to meet and why, what to read or set up, and what to do. Keep the first two days light on meetings.

Include:

- ONE REAL TASK they can finish by the end of week two. Small enough to finish, real enough to matter to someone.
- A BUDDY: say which person in the team description would suit it, or that one needs choosing.
- THE MEETINGS WORTH HAVING: each with the one question the new starter should come away able to answer.
- AN END-OF-WEEK-TWO CHECK: three questions for their manager to ask, about what is unclear, not what they have learned.

Leave out anything that is only an account to create; put those in a separate SETUP list for whoever arranges access. If the team description is too thin to name a real task, say so and ask what they could usefully finish.

End of prompt: Plan a new starter's first two weeks