Everything was nice, the WLB was good. Then the company got acquired by another larger fish and the WLB changed badly. I am currently working on a project where the manager expects us to work all day long. He himself works till 2-3AM. And I don't want to know why and how, but this will always be a mystery
He keeps saying this is critical and has a tight deadline.
I wish I could just say fuck this criticality and tight deadlines. I can't be working 12-14 hours everyday and exhaust myself. I literally see blurr and severe headaches after the 10-11th hour.
This has been going on for 3 weeks continuously now and every time he keeps saying how we need to pace up and match his level of speed and commitment and he literally asks us to be “robots” and keep working.
I did hear of past employees changing teams because of his way of working.
PS : there is a time difference of 6 hours and he literally keeps on messaging us on MS Teams for updates, asks us for calls at midnight!!!
Sorry if this was too long.