Postmortem: Hudson River Trading Fired Me for Requesting Holidays

Hello,

I was the first employee of HRT in London in my niche skills. The company never granted holidays to UK employees. The issue has escalated to impossible levels with the company terminating me and openly threatening me and my family to cover up.

There is no recourse. I am in the UK, the company is a billion dollar company in the US. It's not playing by the same rules. The only option I have left is to make a public disclosure.

I found my first job in the UK thanks to Hacker News. This is my blog, you can see my history and comments for half a decade. It's real.

P.S. Don't expect further comments from me, I am relying on British law to make an official public disclosure, I don't think it allows to engage in open discussions.

You have a lot of personal information in your blog and you have posted that there is a non-disparagement clause with 35k penalty.

I think this blog post is a very bad idea.