From 30aae92a0abca61a69b4c5f214db7678126dd2d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elliot Boschwitz <elbosc@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:23:37 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Added script for new hire PR submission (#471)

---
 employee_registry.txt |  1 +
 new_hire.py           | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 employee_registry.txt
 create mode 100644 new_hire.py

diff --git a/employee_registry.txt b/employee_registry.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..48d1d1e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/employee_registry.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+elbosc was here!                                  2020-04-30
diff --git a/new_hire.py b/new_hire.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3df2c612
--- /dev/null
+++ b/new_hire.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Designed for new hires to complete their first PR.
+# Writes to 'employee_registry.txt' by calling `python new_hire.py <alias>`
+
+from datetime import date
+import os
+import sys
+import click
+from utility import ROOT_DIR
+
+def register_alias(alias):
+    """
+    Appends text to 'employee_registry.txt'
+    """
+    with open(os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, 'employee_registry.txt'), 'a') as f:
+        f.write('{0} was here!\t{1}\n'.format(alias, date.today()).expandtabs(50))
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
+        click.secho("`new_hire.py` takes one string as an argument. "
+                    "Please provide your alias surrounded in strings, "
+                    "i.e. \"elbosc\".", err=True)
+    else:
+        register_alias(sys.argv[1])