alt Hacker NewsThis is insane, there is a Reddit, of course there is, of almost 500K people, https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ , who discuss all of the strategies to do this.
Just imagine being one of the people who legit joins a startup, is passionate, working long hours, earning your vest, to have your coworker pretending to be working.
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Every manager and employer should skim through that subreddit. When I stumbled onto it I felt like Bruce Willis at the end of The Sixth Sense, where the truth was revealed and every flashback moment suddenly made sense and lined up. Until then, things just felt “off” but it was hard to put a finger on what was actually going on.
There are plenty of people employed at a single job who only pretend to work. That's life.
How many of those are bots? How many are teenagers? How many are playing pretend? 90% would be a conservative estimate.
That makes you the sucker.
> to have your coworker pretending to be working.
I don't think this is uncommon.
Taking current state of Reddit, with all the rage-bait and other sorts of creative writing, I wonder how much of that is legit content.
This makes no sense. The whole thing is idiotic. Seems to be a combination of LARP and some people trying to push a narrative.
If you really can work multiple jobs, just go freelance. Offer some consulting or whatever. You will earn more and have less stress than juggling multiple jobs.
The VPs, heads of, and C levels of most of the companies I have worked for were also pretending to be working. They knew the company wasn’t profitable, they gave a couple of advices here and there, and then left the company. Big pay checks. Now they are doing the same all over again in other companies.
Tired of considering this “normal” and nobody talking about it. But when one simple engineer does it, well, it’s unethical, it’s wrong, yada yada.