Remote worker fired after being caught working 6 jobs at once: 'He's a legend'

If you've never heard of "over-employment," you're gonna learn today.

Ok, when you first hear the word over-employment, you might just think it's an employee who works way too hard at their job. But no. That's far from it. An over-employed worker is a person who works 2 or more 9-5 jobs consecutively. And it's fascinating to look into the lives of these people.

The day in the life of an over-employed worker probably goes something like this. This trick works best if you work a remote job, so if they have 3 jobs, they often have 3 laptops. They'll set up these laptops (and sometimes they have separate phones for each job, too) and get ready to juggle meetings, answer Slack messages and emails, and just generally try to do 16 to 24 hours worth of work in a single 8-hour shift.

Over-employment seems very hard, and there's an entire subreddit dedicated to telling people exactly how to do it. It's high risk and high reward: if you do it right, you can bring in multiple salaries, have multiple 401 (k)s, and have multiple PTO allotments. You've got to be savvy, and you've got to realize that you're going to be a bad employee. If you're on 2 Zoom calls at once with 2 separate jobs, you're never going to be fully paying attention to either one. How could you possibly answer every email, meet every deadline, and not let anything slip through the cracks when you're working like this? You can't, and you're going to have to accept that you're going to be the opposite of a team player: you're going to always drop the ball, never be reliable, and be constantly unavailable.

This guy is really impressive! He managed to have not 2, not 3, but 6 whole full-time jobs at once! What a hero. What a legend! They should build statues of this man. They should talk about this legendary feat for millennia to come. He was probably the most PIP'd worker, the least-liked dude, the worst coworker ever at these jobs… but I bet he's sitting on a fat stack of money right now.
Check out the full tale of the 6-job-worker below. Then, read about the strangest things that people found on FB Marketplace, like one person who discovered an entire boba shop for sale for $45,000.
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This man could've easily become a millionaire in just one year by doing this! Unfortunately, he did FAFO, and because he was working for multiple competitors, he may have blackballed himself from his entire industry in one fell swoop. Yikes.
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