“Sometimes they log on to two meetings at once… There’s even a website, Overemployed, that aims to rally workers around the concept of steadily holding multiple jobs, framing as a way to wrest back control after decades of stalled wages.”

The WSJ

“He spends his days switching off among 3 laptops -work personal, and work job 2….To maintain separation and secrecy, other workers swear by color-coding browser windows or using external microphones that can be muted without alerting others on a video call. One worker manages double meetings by logging on to one via computer and other via his phone.”

WSJ

“When the worker gets called on simultaneously in both meetings – it happens -he drops one call, answers the other’s query and then pops back onto the dropped call.

Sorry, he had a network issue. What was the question again?

Even better: Evade the meeting altogether. He often tells colleagues he doesn’t think their issue requires a call, and he can help them faster on Slack.

WSJ

The Wall Street Journal verified the workers’ accounts by examining offer letters, employment contracts, concurrent pay stubs and corporate emails. Most of them say they are on track to earn a total of $200,000 to nearly $600,000 a year, including bonuses and stock. They have paid off chunks of student-loan debt, plumped their kids’ college-savings accounts and bought everything from an engagement ring to a sports car with the extra cash.

The money is incredible, the 29-year-old software engineer says.

WSJ

The article has generated 586 comments thus far. Software development, man. That’s the dream.

This should not be news to anyone: if you’re going to the bathroom, they’re after you.

“A bluetooth device in your ID badge can track where you are from the moment you entered the building.” –WSJ

This comes from The New Ways Your Boss is Spying on You , Wall Street Journal weekend edition (Sarah Krouse)

“Terramind software can look at employee’s screens, capture real-time key-strokes, record videos of of their activities and break down how they spend their time. Terramind can also classify employees’ hours as productive or unproductive.”

Wall Street Journal

There’s nothing you can do about it [unless you have counter-surveillance training].

“Executives at communications provider 8×8 Inc. can identify when staff working on their employer-subsidized mobiles at the beginning of the day, when they stop for lunch, and when they send the last email in the evening.”

Sarah Krouse, WSJ

“Brian Dauer of Ship Sticks uses a program called ActivTrak to observe how employees spend their time in front of their computers.” -Te-Ping Chen

You’re not fooling anyone when you’re going to the outhouse.

You’re not fooling anyone when you have to call your daughter if she’s sick.

Think you can beat 13-year old girls, of all things ?

Try this puzzle out yourself, below, and read the answer at Curiosity.com.

Here’s the Puzzle

“Thirteen rotters stole my answer and they ROTated it by 4 and then ROTated it by 10 and all I have left is Uccr ziqy hc ozz QmpsfTwfgh Uwfzg! — can you help me get my answer back?” -Source: Curiosity.com via BBC’s Radio 4’s Today