No offense intended, but if Wells is going to continue to move majority of the operations jobs to India, at least have them work the same working hours as Central Time. Why should we have to accommodate our schedules. Were our colleagues on the west coast even considered?
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Annoyed a bit? I am really annoyed a lot. In fact, this is one of the biggest problems at Wells Fargo.
I'm a sysadmin providing support for a tool used in Cybersecurity. We have users spread across UK-time, four timezones in the US, as well as the Philipines and India. So when should I set my hours to?
I work non-standard hours and have to cover India hours quite regularly, since the already low-quality output they produced before has somehow become even worse than it used to be. India appears to now operate on their own rules and schedules that they are not required to communicate to their US-based partners. They have India-only teams chats so they can talk about stuff that the US side can't see (this happened because we saw discussion of India staff receiving corporate-issued cell phones while US staff were being transitioned to BYOD).
If I get a meeting, particularly meetings above my 2-up, I will not attend it if it's outside my scheduled (I'm exempt, ha) working hours. If they request receipts/responses, I specifically state in the response, "Outside scheduled working hours."
If, somehow, middle-to-upper management held a meeting where actual, useful information was communicated, then I would consider attending one. There is absolutely zero reason to attend one of these per any/every replay I've watched.
I don't care, and management isn't going to fire me for it.
To be clear, it should be eastern not central. It should follow NYSE hours.
But its ridiculous that US hours aren't followed....
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Do US employees really have managers based in India? If so, that's really f'ed up
I've only seen that indian based managers only manage Indian based employees.
Seriously. I don't see meetings happening at 7pm eastern time.
as someone on the west coast I have become very accustomed to 5 and 6am meetings to accommodate both EST and IST. When we first started building our India they catered a lot more to our schedules, much less now.
Unless you are a manager.... your needs don't matter. Your schedule is dictated by your manager. If your manager is India-based you need to accommodate. This is what boot-licking is.
In the eyes on HY executives, domestic workers are a relic that will soon be replaced. India time is the go forward approach and the remnants of US workers will accommodate I&P.