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The article mentions he was a remote worker up front. I think his job was telemarketing.

I wonder if they were a remote sales or marketing rep.

I'm not sure why a software development Company would have an employee doing telemarketing, at least not the unsolicited direct to consumer type we use the term for in the US. Maybe this is a connotation issue.

Software companies still need to sell stuff much of which can be remote, it looks like this local branch was a sales operation to the Dutch market.

I don't know if you're from the US or not, but in the US the term telemarketer usually refers to someone that makes cold calls to private residences. It is usually low paid work and usually outsourced to countries with cheap labor.

Dude was getting paid 70k in the Netherlands. That’s a pretty big chunk of change. Not “low paid” work at all…

That's my exact point, it is unlikely that he was actually a telemarketer and the article is probably wrong.

Reread my posts

Ah, my mistake. I thought you were saying he must not have been paid well because he was a telemarketer. And I agree with you.

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