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Fake job seekers are flooding US companies that are hiring for remote positions

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182 points arizen | 3 comments | 09 Apr 25 12:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.614s | source
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specialp ◴[09 Apr 25 13:31 UTC] No.43631863[source]▶
Another remote employment fraud that is much more prevalent is "Overemployment". You will get an applicant that is very skilled and hits the interview out of the park. But then when hired they are working many jobs and just trying to steal as many paychecks as they can until you fire them. They keep their first jobs resume clean and they all check out.

There is a Reddit community with over 400k members to show how prevalent this is [1]. There's lots of tactics like not allowing mentions on LinkedIn so they can't be publicly mentioned and seen by other unsuspecting employers, and just maintaining plausible deniability about why they can't make an on camera meeting. It is technically not illegal so it is very lucrative and hard to detect.

https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/top/

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1. arkh ◴[09 Apr 25 14:15 UTC] No.43632412[source]▶
I don't see the problem. How many CEO are also on the board of multiple companies? If people at the top can be employed by multiple companies, anyone with a job involving less responsibility doing the same should be ok.
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2. alabastervlog ◴[09 Apr 25 14:44 UTC] No.43632718[source]▶
Founder-CEO of three companies, on the board of another, "advisor" for another startup. On a non-profit board, too.

You notice that they have two "executive assistants" on staff at the 30-person company you're applying to. Gee, I wonder if this "CEO" does any actual work? No, of course they fucking don't. Linkedin post about how they balance work with family despite all this, LOL, it's because all your "jobs" are fake and you have enough money to pay to make all your personal work go away, too. You're a goddamn part-time worker dilettante playing pretend that you're a "hard worker" with amazing time management skills.

Yeah, demands that employees operate under far greater constraints and give more than the near-zero shits about the company than the owner- and executive-classes for way less compensation are totally reasonable and should be respected. /s

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3. sneak ◴[09 Apr 25 17:19 UTC] No.43634701[source]▶
People with this belief have never tried hiring, training, and retaining 6 EAs.