You're completely delusional if you think more than a tiny percentage of WFH people have more than one actual job. Sure, contractors and free-lancers may have multiple clients at a given time, but that's very different from having more than one official job (i.e., you're on the books as an employee of the company in question). Where are you getting the idea that this type of thing is in any way common? There's something really unusual about your life, and you shouldn't project that onto other people. And your high school analogy is just bizarre. |
What on earth? This is not normal at all. I WFH. I have one job. I do my job between the hours of 9 and 5, with some breaks--eating, internet surfing, chores. Then without having to deal with a commute, I get my kid from school down the street, and enjoy the rest of my evening. Anyone who is trying to work 3 full-time jobs at once is no doubt depressed and overworked, because that's insane. And that's their problem, not a WFH problem. |
We did RTO my new in person job and one guy admitted was a mortgage broker, insurance salesman, adjunct professor. Worked the multiple jobs as WFH pays less. I was making $400k a year in person in DC pre pandemic. But laid off start of Covid so had to double up. I even made 800k one year in person. It is so rampant I quit my fully remote job and gave my LinkedIn Info and a few people I work with connected with wrong linked in. Out contract lawyer accidentally connected with her Head of Legal at a bank in Texas. She has two linked in profiles. Both no picture both two different companies. We fired head of marketing abruptly after six months and I noticed he updated LinkedIn to show no break in service old company. I am now back full time in person with big office, staff, dealing with regulators, auditors, investors, board back at C level. I no longer have to patch together a few BS jobs. We all don’t get to pimp out our wives to support our lack of gumption. I have to support my family. No different than back in 1970s men used to bar tend, drive cabs, do odd jobs after work to support family. My Dad was in a union and in a strike once my mom had to go back to work as a waitress a few weeks while dad was looked down upon as a failure WFH and Remote alters 10,000 years of work dynamics. It is also terrible for children. daddy has no real job he sits in basement all day, mommy has to work cause daddies a loser. Now let me get back to whipping my staff into shape. No sneaking out the door early today. Also they need to get five days of work done in four days next week. Office work is the Lords work. At home we’ll the devils playground |
Not that anyone here really believes you but consider seeking professional help. You need it. |
There is something really wrong with you. I can't tell if you're trolling. Because if you really believe all these things, I don't even know what to say to you. You live in bizzarro world. The bolded also shows your total ignorance about history. Leaving your home every day to work in an office is a fairly recent phenomenon, even in the industrialized West. |
Of course he is trolling |
This is the strangest poster. I can not tell if they are a normal person with just a very weird sense of humor or like my friends kind of crazy uncle who lives with his mom and is a “stockbroker” and “real estate mogul” but obviously had some mental health issues. The length of the posts and detail is impressive for a garden variety troll |
My company put a lot of time and effort making work from home work for them. I like it because I prefer working from home but they pay attention to metrics, no one would get away with doing nothing for a sustained period of time. And if someone can get away with doing nothing for months on end, I wonder if, even in office, they are making any meaningful contribution. |
The majority of people having two jobs are doing so when moving to a new company.
Apparently in the tech industry it’s now not unusual for a company to pull an offer. Employees are nervous to provide notice and end up without a job. So they give notice a week or two into the new job. |
I would go to Costco on my lunch break during the winter and grocery shop when I was working at the office. Farmers market during the summer. |
Disagree with this. If I’m going to take a break during the day, does it matter if I’m on my iPhone in an office or at Costco? Besides the fact I now answer emails in the evening when pre-pandemic there was less of that. |
I would never work for a company like yours. I do a lot of work reading on paper and editing (which I input on the computer later). Just because I am idle does not mean I am not working. I also have a lot of phone calls. Not all video meetings. I am mid 40s. I know people who get mouse movers for idiot companies like yours. Crazy. |
I’m a nanny and my boss (of 10 years) recently had to go back to in person. I notice a massive difference, now that she is out of the house. First of all, my job is 100000% easier and all the micromanaging and tension is gone with the kids (who by the way, kept asking when their parents would leave).
But, I also noticed that during WFH my boss (VP of a very large company) lost their longtime assistant and manager, who seemed to be doing the bulk of the work (I’m friends with them). They were back 3 days a week already, but she was barely going in 2-3 hours a day, not even all 3 days. Immediately after they quit, she had to go back to the office for full on 10hrs a day, 3-4 days a week, and basically work like a normal person again. Now she only off Friday and does sweet f*ck all on those days. Previously, she did sweet f*ck all every single day, and no she didn’t work evenings because I am there. All day long she was having people come to the house to do yoga, pilates, she did a complete home renovation and acted as her home contractor because she had so much free time, she basically dumped all her work on her assistant and manager for 3 years and did nothing, then when they left she had to actually show up and work and work. She makes over 2 million a year. |
Because people aren’t actually working much at home and everyone can see it. |
Lol, sure thing lady. |