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Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?

290 points jshchnz | 4 comments | 02 Jul 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.367s | source

Soham Parekh is all the rage on Twitter right now with a bunch of startups coming out of the woodwork saying they either had currently employed him or had in the past.

Serious question: why aren't so many startups hiring processes filtering out a candidate who is scamming/working multiple jobs?

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dalemhurley ◴[03 Jul 25 04:56 UTC] No.44451752[source]▶
This is insane, there is a Reddit, of course there is, of almost 500K people, https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ , who discuss all of the strategies to do this.

Just imagine being one of the people who legit joins a startup, is passionate, working long hours, earning your vest, to have your coworker pretending to be working.

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KeplerBoy ◴[03 Jul 25 08:57 UTC] No.44453035[source]▶
There are plenty of people employed at a single job who only pretend to work. That's life.
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1. rpcorb ◴[04 Jul 25 16:37 UTC] No.44465930[source]▶
When people with no integrity or ethics defraud their employers, "it's life"?
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2. kjkjadksj ◴[04 Jul 25 17:13 UTC] No.44466227[source]▶
How is it an ethical issue? If you don’t have enough in front of you and the pressure isn’t on to be superman, why take the slackoff job your employer is incentivizing for you? Rational take is to do this. See yourself as a consultancy sees itself. If the barriers towards forming your own LLC to represent your own labor in this way weren’t so high this wouldn’t even have to happen; we’d all be contracting projects because that actually makes sense over salary or even hourly. That is even how your own boss sees you without this arrangement: a sort of kept contractor to be let go of should restructuring happen after a project ends.
3. Teever ◴[04 Jul 25 18:22 UTC] No.44466775[source]▶
Yes. It's the same with wage theft.

Wage theft vastly outstrips other forms of theft[0] and it's considered a complete non priority by law enforcement, politicians, and the media.

These kinds of things just aren't a priority for one reason for another. Let's brainstorm some solutions to wage theft and overemployment.

I suggest a synergistic approach -- fix wage theft and it'll have a knock-on effective with things like overemployment or people pretending to work a single job.

What do you think?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft#/media/File:Wage_th...

4. BeFlatXIII ◴[05 Jul 25 22:15 UTC] No.44476025[source]▶
We pretend to work, they pretend to pay.