Today after struggling for 9 months in Wells Fargo by starting my day off at 4:30 AM, I raised my opinion that these working hours are not suitable for my lifestyle. The reaction of my manager and HR was ‘can you do at 5 AM?’ I explained them that these hours will not leave any balance to my personal life and guess what, the next thing I got is a serving notice of 2 weeks. Yes, they fired me.#severance
Was this an engineering role? Why they need you starting at 430?
It was a Product role. 430 because they want me to chat with India dev team befoe they leave. But it was not mentioned by my prod owner in interview.
Week. Good riddance. Market is hot I’m sure you’ll find something less insane. Good luck!
You were doing this for 9 months?!?!?
It was my first ever project, was trying to fit in.
If you knew the hours when you took the job it is fair; otherwise no.
Is this real or? When do you leave the office?
3:30 AM from south bay to SFO.
Fuckin hell that's horrifying to do for 9 months. I can literally go to bed at 3 and wake up in time for my work.
Investment banking or trader? Hope you at least made a killing last 9 months
I am a Prod Analyst :)
When does the employee leave office? 2pm?
3:30 AM practically.
I mean When do you finish work? Not when do you leave home to go to work
Op, you must be omitting a lot here
Omitting that my employer made me unaware that they work with India team, got to know that on my first day. Also, the prod owner himself sits in the UK.
Did you ask? These are things you need to asked at interview but even then sometimes the answer might be no, but then during your tenure it changes. Sucks you got fired but to be fair you didn't like working at 4:30AM. Time to find a job with more reasonable hours. Be sure to ask the right questions at every stage of the interview process
That's fair. It's at will employment. You don't get to dictate your hours at Wells Fargo. Now, go find another job where you don't have to get up so early.
We need more context. Why does the day start at 5? Do you live on the west coast but work east coast hours??
The prod owner is situated in London and dev team is in India. It was not outlined in my interview that I have to interact with India team or we even have the India team. Logically 5 AM PST is 8 AM EST. But the HR assigned SFO office automatically, why? There was a big communication gap between the Prod Manager and the HR.
Why on earth do you have to start so early in the morning? Was this outlined in your employment agreement?
It was not outlined in my employment agreement, they offered me SFO location.
They make your work at the airport?? Wtf?