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I've seen it done onsite.

There was a guy who worked an 8-5 job in my building and the building next door simultaneously. He would show up, look busy, then run next door and do the same thing. He did this for about 8 months before one of his managers caught on and told his other manager. He ended up losing both jobs at the same time.

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There was an engineering director at one of my previous workplaces that was a little hard to reach. People though he was attending high level meetings including his reports. One of them called him once during work and he answered by the name of another company unintentionally. They spoke with HR and through some investigations found out the guy was coming to work and during the middle of the day going to his other job at a startup where he was the CTO. They fired him of course.

How did he answer the phone? Something like: "This is Mike Smith with Widgets Corporation"

My greeting is usually short: "Hi, this is Mike."

I would guess the former since he got caught.

I feel like it's kinda impressive that he managed to keep that up for 8 months. What were the two jobs exactly?

Software developer!

:o. That was... not what I expected. I read your original post and thought that maybe he was a security guard exploiting proximity of the two buildings to do a somewhat ok job on both simultaneously, or something.

hahahahahahahahahahaha

The Aristocrats!

i knew i guy that did this, one remote and one on-site. the remote guy ended up finding out and called the on-site company asking about him.

so he lost both jobs. but oddly, the on-site manager felt guilty mentioning it during reference checks, and he went on to be a fairly well paid manager.

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