I was in car sales. Top performers were caught borrowing used cars for nights out, secretly loaning cars to favorite customers for long period of time, buying tradeins secretly off the books, crashing cars while basically driving recklessly while transporting company cars to customers or off-site facilities, and not fired.

Low performers were fired because they answered incoming calls poorly twice in a week.

So it IS possible top performers were allowed to have side gigs and not fired at Equifax.