> "they’d take care of me” with “maybe an extra vacation day” This boss does not sound good to work for. This is a bad response. It is patronizing and dismissi

> "they’d take care of me” with “maybe an extra vacation day” This boss does not sound good to work for. This is a bad response. It is patronizing and dismissive. Expect to hear this sort of thing constantly, and expect to work a lot of unpaid overtime. How I would respond if I was the boss: " Yeah, I know it sucks to be in these meetings. I really apologize. I hear your concern. Moving your start-date up and doing external billing is really not on the table, unfortunately, due to overhead with HR. My reasoning here is that you will be the one handling these vendors and decisions around these vendors, and I wanted you to be able to weigh in during these important conversations, even if your start-date isn't for a few weeks. This project is very time critical, and I need you to be able to hit the ground running when you start on X date. Because of this, I request that you continue to attend if possible. Again, I apologize for the inconvenience. We will find some way to make this up to you, and make sure you get this time back as vacation. "