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Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years by rootusrootus on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:43AM (#26902079)
I have an acquaintance who goes to work at a pretty boring 9-5 IT job for a local insurance company. Sits down at his desk for a bit in the morning, then gets a cup of coffee, puts it on his desk, hangs his coat on the back of his chair, and leaves. Heads over to his real day job as a salesman for a local Mercedes dealer. Towards the end of the workday he heads back to the office, cleans up his work area, and goes home. Every day, like clockwork.

Sometimes I wonder how often stuff like that happens and we don't hear about it.

It isn't lost on me that I can (and sometimes do) accomplish a completely satisfactory amount of work for my job in a couple hours each morning. Now that we're remote, if I were so inclined I bet I could hold down a second job and not go over 40 hours of total work time.

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Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years by y-c-o-m-b on Thursday April 22, 2021 @09:55AM (#26902754)
> Now that we're remote, if I were so inclined I bet I could hold down a second job and not go over 40 hours of total work time.

It can totally be done... BUT I would not recommend it because the stress load can be extremely high. For one, you're constantly in fear of getting caught (even though many places have a friendly moonlighting clause now). You may have to juggle two meetings at the same time - which can also be done - though there's always that chance you'll be asked to participate actively in both. The money is nice, but the stress sucks

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Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years by SaltyBackendGuy on Thursday April 22, 2021 @09:37AM (#26902557)
> Now that we're remote, if I were so inclined I bet I could hold down a second job and not go over 40 hours of total work time.

We had a guy do exactly that recently. He was working another full time job for several months before being terminated. Funny thing is, he got caught because he updated his LinkedIn.

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Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years by Rendello on Thursday April 22, 2021 @09:16AM (#26902382)
Although the body of the story was quite different, the headline reminded me of this, "Forgotten Employee" (also mentioned in yesterday's thread):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17332440

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