• Bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world
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    8 months ago

    Most of these people are over paid actually. Making without stock over 150k and then around the same in RSUs or more.

    The issue is many folks were only doing like 3 or 4 hr a day and then double dipped to collect another paycheck because they had the time to. I don’t necessarily fault them.

    Friend of mine intentionally took a boring bank job making like 50k less than he was making (so around $125k a yr) so he could coast as a high performer there then planned and did find another gig in Pacific time (were east Coast) and then pulled two checks and still only worked like 42 hr a week.

    This is the true reason there making work from home optional.

    • iquanyin@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      so they should just sit and stare if they’ve finished their work? don’t be absurd, please. the whole system is way past its due date. our society needs to scrap it and start over. and i mean human society. the world, our species. the one we have now if fast leading us to extinction, along with most of the other creatures on earth. what he says isn’t the way, but it’s better than harassing people for doing more work when they finish their first job.

    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Are they overpaid, or is every other job underpaid? Seems weird to call them overpaid when the company is making a profit on them anyway.

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      8 months ago

      This is why we can’t have nice things.

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        8 months ago

        It’s management’s own damn fault for trying to use butt time in seats as a proxy for productivity.

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        8 months ago

        Huh? If the job can be done this fast and the contract says, you get this money for doing that, why should that be wrong, meaning why should anyone be unhappy?

        Except companies are just in for the money and would rather pay you less … Hmmm

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          8 months ago

          All I can say is I agree with you; however, lots of contracts have you agree that you only work for that company while you’re employed by them

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            8 months ago

            Yeah, I think mine has a clause too, that requires me to at least inform my employee

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              That’s the point of the clause; to fire people who tell them they’re working a second full-time job. When required to be in office everywhere it becomes quite obvious very quickly. They’re upset they can’t tell if you’re two-timing or not if you work from home, so they want to make sure you come in and work for them

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                8 months ago

                Petty tactics from petty people. If someone is doing the job they are paid for, why bother? It’s like the employers are entitled to the 40 hours or something, even if all the work is done.

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                  8 months ago

                  If someone is doing the job they are paid for,

                  They aren’t if they aren’t available because they are working the second job. I question how many people saying this are actually salaried workers who’ve read their employment agreements.

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          8 months ago

          and the contract says, you get this money for doing that

          Almost certainly the contract doesn’t say this tho.

          • WallEx@feddit.de
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            8 months ago

            Mine does. But I’m not working manual labor, so it definitely can and will differ I guess

            • EatATaco
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              8 months ago

              Is that a job you could get away with working 2 at the same time remotely?

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                8 months ago

                Not really, maybe this one and a half time job or sth, I work 4-8 hours a day depending on what’s happening (I work in it)

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                  8 months ago

                  And if you’re working on something for the second job, do you have to drop it if something comes up with the first one? Does the second job know you’re going to be doing that?

                  • WallEx@feddit.de
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                    8 months ago

                    Where did I say, that I have a second job? I don’t, so that’s that.