eddiemunster666

Finish the degree, it's amazingly helpful visa wise if you ever want to apply to jobs in other countries. I left the UK for Canada and it would have been way harder without a degree (I believe there's some amount of 'years in the industry' that adds up to a degree for work visas, my memories foggy but i think it was around 10 years..)

I'm just checking, you have sorted out a work visa yeah or already applied to jobs? As from what I remember you can only get a 6 month visitor visa, which means you have that much time to try and get a job and get a work permit sorted before you'd have to leave the country. It's doable but I would probably do a lot more research on the subject before moving my family over.

(To be fair to the company it's hard to say whether it's the employer doing the bullying or just this mid-level employee whose doing it.)

The reason I suggested just doing the LinkedIn update is that it's so plainly ridiculous and easy to fix that if the PM truly thinks that's a measure that's important then give it to him. But then stand firm on whatever views you have on the OT.

Basically my gist was spend your energy and time fighting about something you care about, and at the same time show you're a 'team player' as you changed your linkedin status.

But it's all subjective, I continually change my views on how to handle issues like this in the work place, I tend to swing to each extreme as time goes on....I figure I'll get it right by the time I retire :)

But really...If I had other opportunities then I'd get the hell out.

There's a few places around Vancouver that I would avoid and seems like you found one of them....sorry to hear that.

As others have said the Linkedin issue is ridiculous, just change it to shut him up.

The issue of overtime is something else though, if this was never mentioned before then my spidey-sense would be tingling about how the future will go at this place. I'm obviously not familiar with your exact situation (do you really need the job etc) but if you can risk moving on then I would have a honest chat with the PM...if it sounds like a no go then I would just be ready to move on.

2 of my now friends started work at a place in Vancouver (seperately) and left within 3 weeks due to the unrealistic expectations.

I humbly disagree, if you say to the user that the username was correct but the password was wrong then you have leaked information to the user that they should not have access to. i.e. If email is used as a username and I go to a porn site and type in my wifes email address and a random email and it comes back 'username right, password wrong' then I now know she has an account there which she was trying to kepp secret.

It's not only bad from that point of view, but also the attacker now knows you have a account there and so could try social engineering techniques to gain access to your account, it basically provides a attack opportunity that it doesn't have to.