While we all read about harsh layoffs and HRs inventing the 26th interview stage with an algorithmic section for a backend intern, someone has bent the system.
Business Insider brought a great case: a certain IT specialist "Damien" works 5 (five!) full-time remote jobs simultaneously. His total salary is now $746,000 per year.
How does he do it? Delegates to Indians? Uses a swarm of AI agents?
No. He simply uses different time zones, works from 6 AM to 5 PM, and wrote a simple script that simulates activity on work laptops so that the status in corporate messengers is always green. 🧠
Damien didn't hack technology; he hacked managerial impotence. Corporations absolutely do not understand how much time IT work really requires. Management allocates 5 days for a task. An experienced specialist does it in 4 hours of pure time, delivers a quality result, and goes off to write code for the next employer. And business continues to believe that it is buying 40 hours of your life per week.
We constantly hear big tech moaning about "efficiency," see mass layoffs and forced return to offices. But in fact, business is still buying butt-in-seat hours, not results. If you deliver quality code without missing deadlines, nobody cares what you do the other 90% of the time.
Funny enough, our hero feels "a slight sense of guilt" towards laid-off colleagues because he is vacuuming up jobs that could have gone to them. It must be very hard to wipe away tears of remorse with stacks of money. 🤑
As long as corporations evaluate developer performance by cursor activity and attendance at endless meaningless meetings, this will only thrive, and the winner will be the one who understands the bugs in business processes better than the processes themselves.
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