Thread regarding Fidelity Investments layoffs

Use the worked offsite - business (technology overnight install) option. It counts as an official onsite attendance, unlike the personal reasons for illness or weather.

There is no comp off but I always join late next day. You don't need to go to office at 7.30 but go at 10:30 or 11 and still avoid traffic. Also the day of install you should leave few hours early and take your own comp off.

@db and @dr I’m the poster of @d4, thank you!!!!

@d4

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@d4 the company is Aiwyn

@b9 are you willing to get me in touch with this person? I was laid off as a SWE from fid in 2024, found a remote contract, but got cut recently. I need to find a remote job again, so if they’re open, I’d love to have a conversation. I’ll keep an eye out on this post for the rest of the night, and if you say yes I’ll post a temporary email to get contacted. Thank you!

Work conditions like these would INSTALL anger into anyone

@c5 lmao facts

@bz This a bit extreme, don’t you think?

@c5 this is the way. Let them bask in the terrible decisions they want to make to save a dollar.

Update your resume. Apply for jobs. If you get a job offer for 15+% compensation increase, then take it.

Don't put up with it. Let them hand it over to the Indians who are the geniuses that will save corporate America.

@b5 So by that logic, we should never do anything new or different. You also signed up with specific technologies. Therefore, we should never add new technologies to the scope of work for anyone coming into the industry ever?

Times have changed. The market has changed. Grow up. This isn't medical school/healthcare industry.

@b8 do the installs between 8am-5:30pm ?
Yea - let's bring down systems that are customer facing so reps or operations can't do their jobs. As far as India doing the installs, I've cleaned up more messes than I can count giving them autonomy over important software updates or changes. The reality of working off hours to support installs, upgrades, and production issues comes with the territories. You don't mind taking the paycheck for information technology work but whine about the realities. Time to seek out another line of work I think

@b5 Your willingness to remain silent in the wake of unreasonable working conditions does not make those conditions acceptable, nor does it create an obligation for others to endure them indefinitely. Tolerance should never be mistaken for fairness and on the flip side, silence should not be interpreted as consent.

@b9 *** remote not RTO

That's ridiculous and sadly how many companies can treat their tech teams. The one perk for you - your skills are highly transferable and have RTO options.
I'm in Westlake and have an old co worker that was in tech and left for a fully remote company that also offered 40k more!

@b5 Can I say the same for the hybrid job I signed up for? After all that's what "i signed up for". was remote, or hybrid.

Remember, we are an in person comany. It's not acceptable to work from home, we must be in the office to get anything done. If that's not the case for installs then one would think people could come in for shorter days so they could work the rest of the day/night at home to support the business, but that will get you dinged by HR for coffee badging and not working your full shift (the number of hours and specific hours they are monitoring for but aren't clear about in the policy.

So if that's the way it has to be then the installs should be done in the office and at a time when it's someones regular shift. So either perform the install between 8:30-5:00 or have someone in India or Ireland support the install. We have associates across the globe for a reason, what's the matter they're not good enough to do the work? The company expects employees to be flexible but the flexibility seems to be a one way street.

@b5 I'm surprised you could remove your face from dear leader's b-hole long enough to write that message.

@OP I did just what you describe for years as both a developer and a manager. It's part of the job you signed up for. Stop whining.

ya, Fidelity is notorious for this. behavior. It would be nice if software dev's were paid comparable wages to the industry for the extra work that they have to do off the clock.