'Employee of the year' secretly working 3 jobs gets video of speech posted on LinkedIn and YouTube: 'I had to... ask them to get it removed'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Sep 5, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

Employee of the year: what an honor! 

Employee of the month is a great honor, too, and at many workplaces, this is a goal that employees strive for. It comes with a little bit of clout, but more importantly, it often has a cash bonus that accompanies it. So an employee of the whole entire year award is quite special. This person should've been excited… but instead, they're having a bit of dread about the whole thing. 

As an "overemployed" worker, this dude is working 3 full-time, 9-5 jobs all at the same time. A lot of overemployed workers struggle just to squeeze 2 jobs in, working 16 hours in an 8 hour span every day. The way this manifests is usually that you will be the worst worker at your company. You will be very bad at your job, and you just have to make peace with that. While you're on a call for one job, you're missing a team meeting with another. You have to be comfortable declining every meeting and "catch up" you can, and if you don't work remote at at least one job, it's all but impossible. 

This person is clearly doing something right, and they could give some pointers to the rest of the overemployed workers out there. Check out what happened down below. 

Next, read about the employee who was given a hiring contract and spotted some interesting red flags in it, such as "No call-outs or missed shifts for ANY REASON."

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    "Somehow won employee of the year award at job 3. They are posting it everywhere."

    The most bruh moment. I was at the company retreat and had taken PTO from my other Js to attend it. Well, at one of the events, I very unexpectedly won the employee of the year award (a variant of this award, not this exactly this). This is a company of 1000+ people and I didn't even know people knew me like that...I work LESS than the bare minimum at this job. Like we're talking 1-2
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    hours a WEEK (Manager and team in different country and don't work in the same timezone) Overall, I was very strategic. Had a face mask on most of the time, and ran away from every pic. Somehow at a mandatory meeting, HR announced this bs employee of the year result. I was forced to accept the award and give a speech. Of course, marketing team records it and posts it on LinkedIn and the
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    company YouTube page (3 views in 5 hours kinda post but still). I had to reach out to ask them to get it removed because I'm being stalked by my ex yadda yadda (not exactly this but similar) but I'm just so ped. Oh and yeah, a $150 gift card equivalent that comes with this award.
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    Thankfully, I use my middle name at this job instead of my first name, but if someone searched for me using my last name, it'd show up on LinkedIn even though my account is on Hibernate. Alexa, play suffering from success by DJ Khaled
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    Edit: To clarify, this isn't the EXACT scenario, but close to the original. The context is similar, but this way, company can't know it's really me. Also, company is in a different country and I highly doubt anyone even knows what Reddit is.
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    p4rty_sloth I would never watch another companies bulls all hands you'd be safe from me
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    Gizmotastix I would tell you to keep up the good work, but sounds like you might want to slowdown
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    burns_before_re... You're employee of the year at J3, but at OE you're officially on pip. If you can pull that off you need a J4 and 5. I want to see some improvement at our next OE performance review.
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    Weird Bus4211 Hey man wondering how you did it because I do slightly above minimum and have not been recognized by any organization at any level of my life. I am truly invisible
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    Shoddy_Funny4... It is crazy how you can accidentally become important with NO EFFORT at all! J2 keeps offering me a management position that I have absolutely no interest in. J1 is all about employee recognition, but they luckily don't put much out on social
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    media due to the nature of the work (I've won 4 or 5 awards in less than a year). Makes you wonder why some people work so hard???
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