If you do everything you need to, are responsive to all communication, participate in group meetings, contribute to the business like everyone else I wouldn't know you have a second job and therefore wouldn't care. But this is a fake narrative because it's impossible to do that for two jobs at once. If it's not my company it's the other one that's being neglected. For certain projects work can be divided evenly, but when there are deadlines some people end up doing more otherwise we miss the deadline. So if one worker is slower the only alternative is fire them and that's not really something I want to do just because someone isn't as fast as something if they turn in good work. However if the reason it takes them so long is they are taking other work that's a completely different story.
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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.
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?
Do all of your team members finish their work at the same time, or are some slower than others? Do some require more help than others, or take up more than your time managing? Do you just fire the worst performing ones? Does anything change if you find out that the worst performing person has another job he's doing during the same hours he's working for you and maybe that's why he's performing under his peers?
Not sure how that's an argument that it's ok to have two jobs. If people can only concentrate on work for 3 out of 8 hours, where are they getting the concentration for another job? More likely that 3 hours get divided to 1.5 to each.
That smells like BS. No one can work 5 full time jobs and not be committing fraud somehow. Paying someone overseas to do the work, plagiarizing it, submitting the same work to more than 1 of them etc.
The type of worker that article is talking about don't. They are making $250,000 per job. People making too little to live off largely don't have jobs that you would lie about working 2 at the same time.
Want them to do more? Pay them more and then give them more responsibilities.
The article cites tech workers double-dipping on $250,000 salaries. It's clearly not about not getting paid enough.
It’s like dating two people but pretending to be monogamous with each.
That's a great analogy.
It's not just Tech. Two people I work with, One can format a Word document 5x faster. With the logic of some of these people, the slower person should be fired for it? I don't get it.
It's absolutely insane to me how many people think this is ok. I don't know if it's just the particular demographic of Lemmy or not, but god damn. People like that are in for a rude awakening when their jobs are outsourced. Because if companies are going to deal with people working two jobs at the same time, why not pay a fraction for it and deal with it in India.
Ok, and you've never delayed a meeting or communications with 1 company because you were working on another?