Posted on 10/16/2022 10:32:40 AM PDT by EBH
A Linkedin post shared by Canopy CEO Davis Bell is sparking controversy for shedding light on the growing trend of "overemployment," or secretly working two remote jobs at once.
The post went viral on Friday after Bell divulged that Canopy, a mid-sized software company based in Utah, recently fired two engineers who were secretly working two full-time jobs simultaneously. Overemployment has soared during the pandemic, with some saying it allows them to make up to $600,000 a year during a period of record-inflation and soaring housing costs.
"To me, this isn't some fun new social trend," Bell wrote. "It's a new form of theft and deception, and not something in which an ethical, honest person would participate."
The post prompted backlash from several corners of the internet, including the Reddit community "antiwork," with some users arguing that tech CEOs like Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk are lauded for working at multiple companies at once, while regular workers are punished for it. Others speculated that the engineers may have be working two jobs in order to make ends meet.
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I think they mean during the same hours. So an 8 hour day is really 2-4 hour days.
Not if both companies think you are working 9 to 5 for them and they are paying you accordingly. That is theft.
I think they are referring to the time they are paying for.
IIRC engineers tend to be salary rather than hourly so as long as the get the assigned work done they may try to claim they were not engaged in “theft”.
But the natural counter to that, unless you are a real Wally, is engineering is not merely a 40 hour job.
At this point I couldn’t careless. These businesses have been raping our nation (well the leftist tech tyrants have been). So if employees decide to screw them over great. If they are working at a mom & pop and confirmed working there, then great. So sick of the tech tyrants. Our gov’t isn’t doing anything to stop it either so the people need to do what they can.
In the late 1990s, my company had some guy in the NY City area doing IT work, and six months into the episode...they found out he had a second job...same hours...just across the street. He ended up fired from both companies in the end.
Unless the company’s rules of employment specifically prohibit it (which it may) this looks like a slam dunk wrongful termination suit in the making
This is why it’s often better to work as a contractor instead of an employee.
So while our company thought they were "keeping everybody safe at home", there were some who went out and sold real estate during that time.
At first I was pissed they were double-dipping but then I came to realize they were simply doing what they had to do to make ends meet. I mean, other than retention business, how much net new selling can one do huddled at their house during a lockdown?
A big trend in IT Engineering is contractors that work on hourly rates. In fact, I would say the mix is like 40% contractors to 60% full time employees, especially in large fortune 100 companies. They hire outside contractors to work specific projects in varying length, then either assign the contractors to new projects or get rid of them without paying unemployment compensation etc...
For the last 15 years of my work career, I worked exclusively on hourly wages.
I personally knew a few engineers that were working multiple jobs at the same time, the problem was trying to keep things straight and hours required to complete each job, it eventually wore the engineers out and eventually they all gave up one of the jobs.
If you're working remotely -- providing your own office, setting your own hours -- are you still an employee? Aren't you really an independent contractor?
In many professional fields it is almost universally prohibited under the terms of an employment agreement. At a bare minimum, there would be an ethical obligation to notify both employers of the arrangement — since it carries an enormous risk for conflicts of interest.
That depends on how one identifies.
I identify as a Income Maximization they/them. See?
Look at some of the posts on this thread. Astonishing.
Some people here think this is perfectly fine, that someone would give their word or sign a contract to work with an employer for 40 hours a week, and then give something less than that.
Or that corporations “deserve” to be screwed because they somehow mistreated their employees.
I am speechless.
On one hand, no moral foundation. On the other hand, people sound like dedicated Marxists.
Right on this very forum. Just wow.
I wonder if he received unemployment benefits...
Boardroom types hate sharing their perks with “peons”.
That’s the 4th Damon Wayans reference I have seen, or posted, in the last week.
My favorite was Handiman...
Yep, I agree. And that *is* theft since both companies are paying the employee to work full-time for them.
That sort of thing has a tendency to eventually bite the perp in the ass.
I’m not sure if it is legally theft, but it will likely get you fired from both places eventually...
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