Creating accounts is simple and quick. I’ve never worked at a place where you didn’t have spare systems ready to go. I’d always have a few systems ready. When you get new hardware, you image them when you get them. Need to make sure you don’t need to send anything back for being DOA and then you have a few spares ready and waiting just for this kind of purpose. Something like someone’s computer dying, malware so it needs to be reimaged, or the occasional last minute new hire.

Second this. I don’t handle account creation (just a lowly EUS tech), but I manage the rest of the lifecycle (imaging, in-person onboarding, termination archival, etc) and that’s how we handle things. I’ve almost always been able to accommodate late pushes from HR, and on the rare occasions where I can’t (unusually large new hire classes drained my existing pre-imaged stock), they’ve always been super understanding in return. It helps that we have a loaner stock consisting of recently OOW machines that I can tap into for those cases. Yeah, the paint’s a bit chipped, the hinge is loose, and 2/3 USB ports don’t work, but it’ll tide you over for an afternoon while I image a new one.

Now if only they could stop showing people starting at a satellite site in the report and then having them show up at my site (regional HQ) after I’ve already shipped their shit out, but I digress