Sounds like a procedural fuckup. All the usual hiring checks (technical etc.) got approved but Manager Larry's objection wasn't handled correctly by HR so the job offer went through anyway. They really should have paid out at least two months to be honest considering it was their fuck up.
I used to work for Couchbase and a lot of the teams were distributed, but spanning too many timezones caused problems in places. If the team you were joining were already spread across say US and Europe then they'd be totally justified in saying that adding Japan to the list would be a bad idea - although that should have been picked up much earlier.
I used to work for Couchbase and a lot of the teams were distributed, but spanning too many timezones caused problems in places. If the team you were joining were already spread across say US and Europe then they'd be totally justified in saying that adding Japan to the list would be a bad idea - although that should have been picked up much earlier.