I'm the only one who hates the idea of "overemployment" (people which hoards lots of remote jobs and then split their attention between them while getting a full time salary from each of them)?

If these guys believes to be so good and productive (and some of them definitely are) entrepreneurship or working as independent contractors/consultants is always a great viable options instead of trying to become multi millionaires by "stealing" good jobs which may instead lift people who have very little from poverty or bad jobs.

More fuel for managers to kill remote work. As if they needed any more.

@ars1 when I thought to have found all the reasons to hate that stuff you come and bring me an additional one

Interesting..in most countries this would be forbidden by law and working contract.

@IntrusionCM in my country this is definitely forbidden by law and most working contract too

This is total bs to me. Even if the guy really did work 14 jobs, would he really need one computer per job?
Plus, it seems like a pretty shitty setup for someone making 1.3 million a year.
Can’t even afford anything better than the cheap IKEA desks?

I bet there are lots of single hot milfs in his area too.

The joke is that he needs 14 jobs to make that money

@red-knot possibly computers he got from the employers. Many have a security policy that require you to use their machine with their setups, so it's not technically impossible if he picked right.

That being said, I also think this is BS, Don't tell me he doesn't have a single overlapping call working 11 jobs. no dailies or anything? No manager calls? No colleagues constantly asking for help? (I guess not, cause he never has the time to actually work)

Nah, that's more likely a repurposed image from like a repair store, or from an office someone joking around.

@KDSBest nearly 93,000 per job. That's actually really good! But what do I know?

Dont hate the player

This won’t work in most European countries as each employer has to share information like income tax, insurances (health, unemployment, …), retirement fund, … with the corresponding institutions.

How can you look at the recruitment industry and blame applicants with a straight face?

@IntrusionCM in most countries it would be illegal by law to forbid someone from working not the other way around

@Hazarth you can ask nicely to move the call, you know that right?

@lastNick 60% of industry works on b2b contract and they don't have to share anything

There is global shortage of IT workers in any specialization, no1 is stealing anything from you, git gud

@PAKA not sure what you mean.

In Germany it's very clear.

You sign an 40 hour contract, you *owe* these 40 hours to your employer.

Secondary job can be a part time job etc., but it must not interfere with the working hours of the full time job.

Plus every working contract usually has the legal vodoo around competition clauses, e - spionage etc.

Working 2 or more IT jobs is pretty much impossible if the working contract contains the usual legalese

That's one part. The other part are taxes.

You'd get in big trouble here if you don't fill your tax application correctly.

Working multiple jobs? Oh boy. That's a lot of red tape you've got to cross with a perfect 10 / 10, otherwise you might be in legal trouble

@IntrusionCM if you are trying to tell me that Germany has only one type of employment contract and it's illegal to be a freelancer, I'm not gonna believe that

@PAKA uhm, no? Not sure where you work, but I work with 12 other people from all over the world. The timezones really don't make it possible to move a lot of calls to a lot of times, especially with SCRUM and daily meetings, but also plannings and any time of Management or customer calls

When you work 11 jobs, there's a good Chance he would face that issue in at least a couple, which is a lot

@PAKA You might want to reread what I've written.

@Hazarth Sounds pretty toxic. I work in 2.5 jobs for 8 clients and God knows how many people in at least 3 time zones, and when I say that I can't join a meeting then no1 bats an eye

@PAKA maybe from time to time, but I think you are failing to factor in that the guy said 11 damn jobs, That's just about 4x more than you have

This image was a shitpost from r/overemployed

@Hazarth just take the calls simultaneously.

Earbuds under headphones. Camera off and mics muted until it's your turn to talk (or like most meetings you just sit in silence and they're useless)

@PAKA I already have a good job so I don’t care for myself, still I believe which 5 person working from home with a good salary are better than a person which works from home making a shitton of money and 4 unemployed/badly employed guys. There may be a shortage but shortage ≠ unlimited supply of jobs and if the market becomes tighter these hoarders will keeps their hoard of good job barring other good devs from working on tech.

@DEVil666 most people who OE have 2 maybe three jobs. This 11 job post is a shitpost from Reddit.

If a person can work a few jobs simultaneously and outperform his peers, I say go for it. There's no need of top performers limiting their capabilities and earnings.

If their drowning trying to do multiple jobs and their performance sucks, they'll be let go in the upcoming downturn.

@iSwimInTheC he has to freelance in m, country to have this remotly legal. And 93k in my country freelancing is garbage.

@DEVil666 you definitely are not alone. Not out of envy, but I really cannot fathom that that kind of working ethic can produce any quality at all.

@PAKA Even with B2B contracts each individual freelancer has to file for tax and the mandatory insurances correctly. This won’t work for European workers.

@lastNick I'm literally doing that myself as European, you have no idea what you are talking about

This says more about the mistaken “need” for some jobs than it does about the ethics of the individual. If a whole full-time job only requires a fraction of each day to get the work done, then why is it a full-time job in the first place? I blame middle managers who figure they’ll get fired if they don’t keep looking busy by hiring people to do jobs that don’t really do anything.

On the other hand, I’ve worked at jobs where the same middle managers refused to hire enough people to do mountains of work. Maybe if these idiots get together at an expensive Aspen retreat they can trade employees until they get the balance right.