My whole team was lied to! - Recensione dipendente - Junior Accountant presso Kalmar

I feel lied to. The workload is inhumane. In the contract you sign up for a 40hr workweek. But they don't mention that for closing activities (2 workdays before the 1st working day of the month and 5 workdays after) you have to work crazy overtime and you are FORBIDDEN from taking any kind of leave in the first or last week of the month. During cloding I start at 8am and finish at 10pm, some of my colleagues work until 12am. These hours are not paid, you can take them as "leave early" bonus but sometimes your manager tellsforces you to take them when you don't even need them. Sound bearable but there is more - when you try to write the after hours in the overtime spreadsheet you get scolded that "you are not really working if you are waiting for a confirmation". For example I finish work at 6pm and I am on the computer waiting for a confirmation, to start my tasks (another hour, sometimes two), which I receive around 8-10pm. In that time, as they like to say, "you cannot write it as overtime, because you are waiting and not actively working". This is not only disrespectful but also illegal, because I stay available and react when there is a problem or so (most of the times something urgent comes up)! All of my team are burnt out and we are only 6 months in. If I knew what was going to be on my plate I would have at least demanded a bigger salary, because this is just mockingly low for the amount of effort we put.