I cannot see what is so WILD about this aside from the author's preceonceived notions being subverted.
Is this deceptive/unethical if they are getting their job done? I don't believe so. Contrast that to /r/antiwork where many people there maintain multiple jobs to make ends meet - I would call it more unethical that such a situation is being normalized and accepted.
Or contrast that with CEOs who sit on and are paid by several company boards, such as the author of the tweet... who sits on other boards themselves.
I’ve personally managed several contractors (infra devs) recently who have definitely been running multiple gigs. It’s blindingly obvious because they interview well, start out delivering to expectations, but then performance drops off a cliff, with a whole library of excuses. They don’t last long.
I suspect the knack to maintaining multiple jobs successfully is picking the ones with very inexperienced or indifferent management.
Being "Overemployed" by holding two or more jobs at once, (which is not what that word means, at all) is not unethical. Many of the "tips and tricks" posted there are unethical. That's what the author said.
You are quick to judge workers but not employers. Where’s your outrage at rampant wage theft (a much much bigger number than the so called time theft you’re complaining about) and workplace surveillance that some of these techniques are a response to
Seems like a good way to prevent this would be checking for employees showing colliding stubs via The Work Number (https://theworknumber.com/), Equifax's private Tattle-for-Dollars service.
How many of these people are software engineers? Not shaming, if anything I'm impressed. I'd have to hustle super hard to hold down two Senior positions at once, never mind three or four!
This is actually blowing my mind. The fact is, it sounds like the employees are trying to actually do their work at multiple jobs. Does this mean the traditional model of working at one job at a time will be disrupted?
Will we all be working at 3 or 4 jobs in the future?
You can see Uber as being a chaffeuer to many different people, I wonder if someone will Uberize IT jobs, e.g. you have 3 or 4 clients, and your work for the next hours/days might be a piece of code client A needs solving, or setting up a server. If you're idle after that, hey client B has this task...
I spend less than 20% of what I earn, and if I went up to 600k then it would be a smaller percentage. Not everyone follows the hedonistic treadmill and does that stupid thing of increasing expenses instead of increasing money-producing assets.
Maybe you do, maybe you don't; it depends on what assets the money has been invested in. I doubt someone who chooses to pursue this kind of path keeps it as mattress cash.
Not necessarily. Since my wife and I married 8 years ago, we’ve never spent more that 40% of our combined income annually.
I haven’t had consistent income for almost 9 months now as I am attempting to transition from a blue collar lifestyle (carpenter and electrician) to become a web developer.
I wrote my first html and qbasic code back in the 90s but I always told myself that I could never be anything other than a tradesmen because of my upbringing.
Now I’m looking to change that and it’s only possible because we’ve been so frugal.
I certainly hope not. I've been fully remote working a single job in a tiny, mountain town since 2016 and have been more productive than ever.
I'm happy to travel for work, but will never give up my morning coffee on the continental divide for an office again. I'll switch professions and work at the local hardware store to keep this up :) (I do very much enjoy software work FWIW)
It's quite gratifying being in an environment surrounded by what you love. It's not for everyone, and I'm very grateful it all worked out. Unfortunately, the little towns like this just don't have economies to support my profession, and I'm incompatible with the big cities.
Layoffs are happening and only the overemployed are the ones who easily weather that. It’s job insurance. In the US employers will drop people on a dime
You don't think that this will be a factor? Managers will favor those they know are not dividing their time or attention over those they suspect, or those of whom they are unsure. That's the crux of my theory here.
Is this deceptive/unethical if they are getting their job done? I don't believe so. Contrast that to /r/antiwork where many people there maintain multiple jobs to make ends meet - I would call it more unethical that such a situation is being normalized and accepted.
Or contrast that with CEOs who sit on and are paid by several company boards, such as the author of the tweet... who sits on other boards themselves.