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MANAGER: “hey uh, my friend at a different company said you applied for a job there this week?” EMPLOYEE: “uhhhhhh…. that was… uhhh… a deepfake who also stole
by hijohnnylin 4y ago
MANAGER: “hey uh, my friend at a different company said you applied for a job there this week?”
EMPLOYEE: “uhhhhhh…. that was… uhhh… a deepfake who also stole my information?”
MANAGER: “oh okay. yeah of course you would never try to double/triple your salary by taking multiple remote tech jobs with zero oversight. my friend said it seemed so real haha. deepfake are so good now. im gonna report this to the FBI, people need to know.”
EMPLOYEE: “yea haha amazing. anyway i gotta get back to not-my-other-job”
- roflyear 4y agoLots of people are doing it!
- DoingIsLearning 4y agoLots of people claim to do it on a fringe sub-reddit for internet points. If you are doing it as a non-hourly contractor, more power to you. But advertising OE as common place really hinders the paradigm of remote work.
- roflyear 4y agoYeah I agree, I was half joking.
- SwanRonson 4y agoI know of one person who does it right now (not in the tech field). It seems possible in certain positions in some fields but requires a lot of planning, some luck, and a lot of work. As long as it’s a salaried position and you’re getting the job done at/above expectations, the company shouldn’t care as much as some of them seem to.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoIt more so hinders the concept of seniority and credentials vs merit.
- vsareto 4y agoMANAGER: "okay, now we need to make sure we never hire a deepfake. all technical interviews are now proctored with identity verification and random shocks of pain. failing to react to a shock appropriately will immediately disqualify someone from the 8th round interview"
- spudlyo 4y agoI was surprised that this was a real thing when I stumbled upon the r/overemployed subreddit. Not sure how many of the folks who self-report their success in doing this are LARPers, but it's remarkable that anyone gets away with this. I have a hard enough time attending all the meetings and completing my work in my actual job, I couldn't imagine taking on another and balancing the two somehow.
- telchior 4y agoAnecdotal, but my wife was doing 2.5 remote jobs simultaneously for a while, and apparently performing above expectation in all of them. However -- meetings were her major complaint, and she eventually burned out and quit the two full time jobs due to excessive and (according to her) pointless meetings. One of the companies asked her to stay on as a consultant. They ended up hiring someone full time... who spent all their time in meetings, while my wife did the actual work. For significantly less pay, of course. So yes, overemployed remote workers really exist, but at least in her case it was largely due to incompetent management.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago> while my wife did the actual work. For significantly less pay, of course. What kind of consultant is paid less?
- haswell 4y agoThat probably depends a lot more on her previous title than the consulting title. I could definitely imagine scenarios where a meeting-heavy middle/upper management job pays quite a bit more than consulting.
- telchior 4y agoAh, just to clarify: she was also working far fewer hours. The meetings really were the primary time sink.
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- abirch 4y agoMANAGER: We need to hire someone. EMPLOYEE 1: We should hire Homer. He was at my last company and great. EMPLOYEE 2: We had a Homer at my old company, he was great. But he and I worked together at a different company.