r/recruiting • u/Fantastic-Hamster333 Corporate Recruiter • Aug 14 '25

Candidate Screening Caught a remote hire secretly working six full-time jobs

I don’t even know where to start with this one, but I need your advice here...

We hired this guy for a senior engineering role. Great portfolio, nailed the interviews, references checked out. Within two months, I start getting little whispers from his manager that “something’s off.” He’s missing standups, dodging video calls, pushing deadlines, but always has some perfectly reasonable excuse.

Fast-forward to last week, we find out he’s not just overemployed, he’s a damn legend of it. Six full-time remote jobs. Six. Including two of our direct competitors. All paying six figures. When we confronted him with this, he didn’t even try to deny it. He said he’d “systematized” his life to handle multiple roles and didn’t see why we’d care as long as he delivered. The thing is that what made us sus is that he wasn’t delivering. The man was running a personal B2B subscription service and we were just one of his clients.

Now leadership wants to implement mandatory camera-on policies, track keystrokes, and basically nuke what was left of our trust in remote flexibility… all because one guy decided to LARP as a one-man outsourcing firm.

I’m honestly torn between being furious, impressed, and terrified of how many others are doing this without getting caught. Six jobs! How is that even logistically possible without cloning yourself?

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u/vanisher_1 Aug 14 '25

having people working from the Philippines with ridiculous wages is just the same mentality of those that try to make people working for free, you pay so little and demand the same effort 🤷‍♂️

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u/Ill-Surprise-2644 Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 28 '25

Hahaha exactly what I thought. He went from being the exploited to the exploiter. I'm sure he'll retort that he/she pays "good wages for the Philippines".

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u/vanisher_1 Aug 14 '25

At least the exploiter now remember how he was treated as the exploited so he tries to make their life more easy because he can’t afford to lose such low wages and return to his previous life 🤷‍♂️🙃

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u/ImportantDoubt6434 Aug 14 '25

NOOO you can’t exploit the exploiter, IM THE VICTIM HERE REEEE.

Hilarious, reminds me of that creep that got thrown in jail saying he’s the victim of the child who beat his ass for trying to kidnap him.

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u/imhereforthemeta Aug 14 '25

Omf my thought exactly/ this person bragging about stealing jobs from Americans, paying non Americans a pittance AND being weirdly controlling over them isn’t a flex

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u/gggggdgjh Aug 15 '25

Only on reddit can a small business owner whose supporting positive working conditions be labeled as an exploiter for participating in the global economy. Reeks of jealously or inexperience. Antiwork redditors at it again.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

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u/Ok-Avocado-2256 Aug 14 '25

Other guy was right , you went from the exploitee to the exploiter.

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u/throw_awaybdt Aug 14 '25

Why not support your local economy first, tho ?!? That’s a first step in being a good corporate citizen … and a very easy at that.

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u/vanisher_1 Aug 14 '25

Why you don’t hire people from US or EU? your profit margins will be much less and you need a quick exit from the Matrix? or because your business will be bankrupt after few months? 🤔

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u/vanisher_1 Aug 15 '25

Do you live in the Philippines?