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This is pretty good advice. I have a friend who works in a call center who found another job due to COVID-19 (started looking when they said they were going to
by jrockway 7y ago
This is pretty good advice. I have a friend who works in a call center who found another job due to COVID-19 (started looking when they said they were going to lay everyone off, it's an affected industry). She took 3 weeks vacation from that job, then started the new one. The new one was a disaster; training was disorganized, IT can't get them the right access, and the actual job wasn't what was expected. She quit the new job, and will just silently return to the old one after her vacation is up.
I've never thought of doing this, but it's genius.
(Note to programmer types, though; you might have signed something that says you won't do this. Recommend legal advice or at least a backup plan for if you get caught ;)
- rootsudo 7y ago+1 People quit all the time after returning back from "Vacation."
- guenthert 7y agoIANAL, but this seems questionable. The contracts I've seen mandate giving full attention to the job, so no side-jobs (but that's for "exempt" full time positions). It might get tricky with the tax-man too.
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- nogabebop23 7y agoYour contract may look different than mione, but I can totally work a second job on my own time. Now it seems unlikely you could do that without impacting your current job, but the GP said they were on vacation, so you probably could in this case. ANy non-compete would be the same if they were concurrent or sequential.
- arcticbull 7y agoIANAL but it seems like a sticking point would be the intellectual property assignment and patent assignment agreements.
- pedasmith 7y agoWhy would the tax people care at all? They are more likely to take your salary from the two jobs, add them up, and charge taxes on the results. Where I work, a side job is legit (with the obvious caveats, of course!)