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Is it unethical to have a 2nd wife or husband if they are both happy?

• TheCapeGreek 4y ago
  Contrary to popular belief, monogamy is not the only way to have relationships.
  • Gigachad 4y ago
    Do you think the companies these people work for are aware they work 3 jobs?
    • danw1979 4y ago
      If they are not aware, then the employee is being badly managed, or maybe not managed at all.
      • Gigachad 4y ago
        Yes, which is why we are probably going to see a huge crackdown on remote work where everyone's output is carefully reviewed and if you have a slow week you'll be audited to check your output matched the 40 hours work expected. The assholes like the OP author are going to make remote work suck for everyone.
    • mym1990 4y ago
      Based on some brief Reddit scanning on overemployment, most people don’t seem to reveal that they are working 2(let alone 3) jobs.
  • chii 4y ago
    So as long as the company agrees with polygamy, there's no problem. It's only if one party assumes monogamy, but the other party secretly tries polygamy that problems arise.
    • mym1990 4y ago
      Yes, this.
  • mym1990 4y ago
    I guess I meant specifically in the case that the other marriage is hidden from both and it is not something that was agreed upon.
• ineedasername 4y ago
  The difference is that I sign on with a company to do a specific job. Nowhere in my contract does it mention hours. Do the job in fewer hours and where the problem with doing another one? Marriage on the other hand, at least in my vows, was pretty explicit on the ground rules of it being an exclusive deal. So you're analogy is flawed.
  • rob74 4y ago
    Even if your contract doesn't mention hours, I'm pretty sure that somewhere in there there's a clause that forbids you from taking on a second full time job (or even a part time job without getting approval from your employer).
    • ineedasername 4y ago
      My contract doesn't forbid it. Employee policy does stipulate that "regular and ongoing" work must be approved. So, in my case, if I wanted to step into the OE world (I don't) I'd be limited to irregular work-- short term fixed length contract work I suppose, and then I'm under no obligation to seek approval. This seems at least a little common. A quick search on it turned up the intel employee handbook which actually has the assumption of outside work completely baked into it, and simply sets about the policies under which is must be performed. But for cases where it would actually forbid another job: Why feel obligated to adhere to that? If you're doing the expected work load in 20 hours, and are not compensated for seeking out additional work, the unspoken norms and social contract between worker & employee is fundamentally flawed very much in favor of the company. It's a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too situation. The company wants the freedom to fire a worker who can't complete their work on time and therefore doesn't deserve the $X compensation at the same time that they expect and feel entitled to the windfall reaped by their good fortune to stumble upon a worker who can do 2x the work at the same salary. OE is not for me, by the hypocrisy of the power imbalance and socially constructed norms around this stuff should not be taboo or held of on a pedestal as principles of labor <-> money exchange that can't be questioned. It's only unethical if you subscribe to the same set of ethics as the ones corporation propagate, ones where all of the terms are favorable to them when they happen to get an above average worker. I don't see it as unethical to violate a workplace policy with ethical foundations that are not compatible with my own interests and respectful of my own capabilities so long as I'm still getting the expected work done.
• danw1979 4y ago
  No.