Re: https://devrant.com/rants/9960929/...

Senior PM called me today (we closed officially for the year yesterday) that *I* should keep contributing to two projects so we can fast track against next year.

So yeah, I’ll take looking for a new job even more seriously now.

Now senior PM is asking for the link to the task that I had just shared AGAIN to T.

I feel this is intentional. They are actually trying to get me worked up.

Before the message I tagged her to the link I posted yesterday. I tagged her and T.

Hehe. Senior PM and T did a group WhatsApp call without even asking I was free for it. I didn’t pick. I reached to senior PM, only to be told to reach out to T for a task. (Senior PM’s client)

I reached out to T and it’s for a task that I had already completed yesterday and told them about it but neither of them responded to the message. “Oh, that was what you sent yesterday? I did not check the link. Thank you.”

ALSO, a month before they changed my role they employed a junior developer whom I had to guide, and is now handling VoIP on my absence. Intelligent lad. We bonded over an episode of Rick and Morty and I got to know he’s being paid 1/5th of my salary.

@oneszeroes

Hubstaff is used to track productivity with automated screenshots every 10mins. Also, salary is not tracked on the app as “company uses in-house metric.”

Boss (apparently stays in the US branch) and on-site developers (at India branch) would speak in their dialect during huddle with me — it’s not a translation issue here as they all speak and write English.

I’ve had to put up with all these to take care of my bills.

Extra information: Company is remote.

What I had to face for 3 months, probationary period:

Saturdays inclusive workday (mentioned during onboarding but with the option to choose, they lied — compulsory every first and third Saturdays, and one particular month, we worked on 3 Saturdays as boss wanted a faster launch)

Boss would “suggest” you turn on webcam, even if you explain it voids privacy at the time. My first salary had a problem on my end (receiving fund from another country. Hence, domiciliary account needed upgrade), there was a bug on calls and he insisted I turned on webcam even after I told him the bank would not allow it — I won that argument.

Boss flares up on Slack whenever he says HI and got no response from ALL the devs in the channel.

Boss agreed on increase in salary after a month “depending on my contribution.” — he would not discuss it a month later, instead he made me head of my department, when I’m clearly the only one.