Unfair meeting hours?

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Hi all,

I have been working at my current company in London for 4 years, I got a transfer to an Asia-Pacific office and a promotion to senior tech support. All sounds very good until my London manager wants to me join his monthly meetings (every last Friday - Payday) for an hour or so. The problem is that I am 8 hours ahead of London and he still expects me to join his meetings via conference. I will be reporting to my IT manager in Asia but London manager wants me to be in meetings at my 10pm just because I am now "senior".

Has anybody been in this position before? Does a manager have any right in demanding an employee to be conferencing in to his meetings at 10pm??

I would love to know your opinions on this one.

Cheers!

 

Tell them to get stuffed! I hate it when companies promote you, give you more money, allow you to see the world, learn new skills and experiences and then turn around and expect you to join a conference call at 10pm once a month and on payday!

Quit and go somewhere where they value and respect you.

 

Do you have his mobile number? If so then turn it around when you think he needs to know something and call him during your morning time, he will soon get the idea that different operating hours mean different ways of working.

Failing that then sorry, your working hours are your working hours and 10pm on a Friday is not what I would call a good work\home life balance.

 

Thanks for everyone's input so far. We have a two other senior techs in Europe and they would not have bothered if they were in my situation. The managers arguement is that I am senior and its only one day a month but if I join I will be so tired on the video conference and it is just sad that I have to join at 10pm.

He wants to know what is happening at the APAC region but I am going to suggest sending him monthly reports as an alternative.

What disappoints me is that said I need to join one way or another but I report to my APAC manager not him. He failed to accept I am 8 hours ahead of him. This has been bugging me for a while now.

 

This.

I have to say, this seems suspiciously like the London Manager over stepping his bounds to be honest, the APAC manager should be able to intervene on the basis the London guy doesn't need to know a damn thing about whats happening in an entirely different region.