Rise of the Secretly 'Overemployed'

[gwill1010]

Good article describing how people do this sort of double dipping.

A couple of my son's friends are software engineers (coders, basically) and they have a couple of jobs. Fully remote jobs, one on the East coast the other on the West coast. They have to make sure their Zoom meetings don't interfere with each other. They also have to be careful with their LinkedIn profiles and they don't tell many people what they are doing as it might be inadvertently discovered by their employer(s). They are making $300K working at home about 25-30 hours a week total.

If you can do two supposedly 40hr/week jobs in 30 hrs then either
- You have two terrible sets of management.
- Your employers recognize that you're not very good, but tolerate you
- Or you have two gov jobs.

 

[indiajust]

I recall a guy who would hire in and get established, set up his remote office, and then sub out his own job to India. This was in the early 90's. He did it over and over, setting each job up with VPN's and a review process. He outsourced himself.

He got caught when one of his subs submitted work without the VPN, revealing their location and identity to the firewall. He also had a problem with boredom and played too many online games internally, whiched raised suspicions.

No issues with the work, or the meeting attendance, which apparently was the biggest issue.

 

[ERhoosier]

If a job actually required 100% level of effort then this would not be possible.

Agreed!!!
Many employers have some kind of "100% effort" clause for "full time" salaried employees either in their individual contracts or employee policies. While some allow limited 'moonlighting' (typically with pre-approvals), many have significant penalties (far beyond just immediate termination) for those who willfully violate employment terms. Sometimes these 'OE' double-dippers get discovered when they show up twice on the roles of a 3rd party benefit program which services both of their employers (e.g. company supplied insurances or company-funded retirement plans).

FWIW- This OE double-dipping is not new. Years ago my department was victimized by a 'FT' office director who was simultaneously working for a competing local firm (in direct violation of employment terms for BOTH firms). His position included much time attending 'off site meetings' allowing him to keep up the charade for a while. When ultimately discovered he was promptly fired from both jobs, & IIRC was facing civil damage claims (fraud) from both firms.

 

[Qs Laptop]

If you can do two supposedly 40hr/week jobs in 30 hrs then either
- You have two terrible sets of management.
- Your employers recognize that you're not very good, but tolerate you
- Or you have two gov jobs.

Or possibly:
--they are really good at coding
--the world has changed and management is not as demanding as before