Have yo heard of anyone practicing “/r/Overemployed”?

A couple of weeks ago a friend sent me a link to /r/Overemployed, basically it's a bunch of people (mostly CS/tech types) working 2,3,4 full time jobs doing just enough work to not get fired. Per the sub founder:

"Overemployed is a community of professionals looking to work two remote jobs, earn extra income, and achieve financial freedom. Be free from office politics and layoffs. Instead, negotiate a severance and invest in your life."

I've read every thread in the sub the past two weeks and... just wow. Per the admission of some they/people they know have been doing this as far back as the 1990s. Are you aware of anyone doing this? I'm curious how widespread this is.

Personally, this feels extremely dishonest to me, last year I worked over 450 hours of overtime just trying to keep freight moving for my company and the idea that there are people out there drawing multiple full time incomes for doing 5, 10, 15 hours of work a week between their multiple jobs (that's what people are claiming in the sub) just makes me sick.

Stunts like these are why employers would continue to do surveillance on their employees and then we will keep complaining. It is not that hard to find if someone has multiple W-2 these days and if you are dishonest about it, you will be in trouble sooner or later. I can't believe we are discussing this on HN of all places.

This person said they work 4 full-time remote jobs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30168122

No, and when I read about this I couldn't imagine doing such a thing myself. It just seems so stressful.

Yeah, but it’s obviously dishonest. If you disagree, consider this: would any employer be ok with their employee practicing this? Most would not, most doing this don’t tell. Hence, dishonest.

If someone is doing it and all employers know and are cool with it then more power to them.

I had an employee who worked two jobs during his last month with my company. He was generally unresponsive during the time and only admitted to doing this after being confronted with a lack of productivity and responsiveness. As we were winding down operations, we cut him his last check and terminated his contract. I won’t work with him again and would be hard pressed to provide a positive reference. He was someone I had previously worked with and was the first person that came to mind when I started my company so quite a bit of trust was lost in that month.

It's a growing and popular subreddit. It's a community where people that work remotely discuss on how to take on multiple jobs. A lot of their members are software engineers.

Yeah, he was a reaal pain to work with and it made me completely abandon the project.

The people complaining here are just envious that others can have the system and they can't.