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Lmaoooooooooo https://thehftguy.com/2021/12/13/postmortem-hudson-river-trading-fired-me-for-requesting-holidays/ …

I kind of feel bad for the kid. The claims in the post are total nonsense (and some are directly contradicted by the ‘evidence’). Instead of walking away with a few life lessons he has made it way worse on himself.

It's a bit shit that HRT only offers 28 days holiday inc bank holidays in the UK (standard in UK in finance is 25 days + bank holidays i.e. 33 days) but also this blog post screams "I was and will continue to be an awful person to work with"

Also a ton of the stuff he says about non-competes is completely wrong/made up? They are v standard in the UK, normally unpaid, but also regularly challenged and struck down by courts.

Unpaid non-competes, it’s like a third world country!

Ehhh it's just terminology. You have a notice period which is paid and is your real non-compete (e.g. six months is standard, and you would normally be placed on gardening leave). Most companies tag on an unpaid non-compete period after it but they are difficult to enforce.