A Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Years ago, I joined a new job and finally got a call with my remote leader, he was a nice guy in the overall and I don’t blame him for any mistake he might have done but at the end of the call I knew that wasn’t the place for me.

I will enumerate each of the things I didn’t like:

1. First call in 3 months since I joined.
   1. There is no excuse for this, the first manager I had was pretty bad but he cleared his schedule to have a long call with each of the new joins.
2. He couldn’t call me before because the team was overloaded.
   1. Not in any way the way to set up expectations
3. He became a manager the day I joined.
   1. I was already a seasoned employees, why should I put my career future on a brand new manager?
4. For the past 3 months he has been working 14 hours from Monday-Friday
   1. I was hired to work 8 hours per day dude, not 75% more than that.
5. For the past 3 months he has been working 8 hours on Saturdays and 8 hours on Sundays
   1. In MX is illegal to work more than 6 days in a row.
   2. You cannot work more than 60  hours a week.
   3. He didn’t even mention overtime pay
6. He didn’t know what my skillset is.
   1. So why was I hired?
7. He was so excited (maybe even jealous, idk) from the place I used to work, he even said that he has been trying to move there.
   1. It was a a bigger company with a better branding, asking why I moved was OK, saying you want to work there, not so much.
   2. I even joked about referring him to my previous position.

That day I started job-hunting, again.