Location: California I started working at a large tech-adjacent company 7-8 months ago (full time W2). The team I've been on has this culture where not being available at any time is frowned upon. So we are expected to work during regular hours, as well as being available post normal 9-5 hours, for meetings with offshore (meetings usually range from 5-10PM). There are a number of these every week, including standing meetings, and sometimes most, if not the whole, evening is consumed by meetings. I am also in a bunch of these calls during my commute (I drive over an hour each way). The team is predominantly indian and I am one of the very few non indians. My manager has always given me shit from the start - pretty much every task is not up to par for one reason or another. Every activity has this or that needs improvement. Every powerpoint deck has something wrong with it. He uses 1 on 1s to criticize me for the duration of the meeting. One of the things that he consistently chastises me for is not being available for any of these meetings that occur during non-regular working hours. The first couple months of my employment I've also had to deal with a parent's serious health issues. Sometimes I've had things going on after work. When I'm not able to join an evening call, he's called me out on it, complained about me not being there, etc even when I'm on these things at least 90% of the time. We had a reorg in the last couple weeks, where a bunch of people were let go, restructuring with the management has taken place, etc. I was not one of them. However, earlier this week, I got an email from my manager about my performance (or lack thereof), outlining what according to him were several examples where I am not performing up to par. This just feels like the first step of being put on an official PiP. Is there any legal recourse at all I can take? Is it legal for an employer to pretty much require someone to work non regular working hours (never mentioning it during the recruitment process)? Would an employment lawyer be able to make any case of this? I can capture some of the calendar meetings and the messages/texts I have received as a result if that helps "build a case."