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However, it looks like nobody was able to reach him, which might mean he had an accident.
Regardless, keeping coworkers in the dark is bad form, even if Apple was pressuring him to do so (which might not have been the case at all).
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Maybe he's been infiltrating the Verge secretly working for Apple, and now the mission's done and he's ready to transition to official employment with Apple, he doesn't care what happens to his career at the Verge? (conspiracy intensifies)
Or, he was instructed to infiltrate Apple by Verge, and was found out. The Verge burned him, he dropped out of Apple, hence why he's supposedly not on the payroll at Apple. I don't believe this of course, but hey, tinfoil.
There is something fishy in this whole story. - You wouldn't risk your new position by not quitting your old one. - Apple would not want you to keep your old job since they want your focus on your new position. - Getting double salaries is not worth the paperwork headache of tricking the system. The only reason I can think of is, he would get some sort of extra pay from his old job if he would fulfil a time written o…
I knew someone who jumped from TiVo to Google and part of the contention in the timing of the switch for him was options vesting.
So Google (well his hiring mgr/HR) told him to keep working at TiVo and get his bonus from them and they'd have something lined up for him to jump immediately afterwards. They couldn't let him work on Google proprietary stuff, though.
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I know someone who did this. It was both so he could collect dual salaries for a while and because he wanted to try out his new job before quitting his old one. It turned out playing out much like what Patel describes with Ziegler. Manager at old job became suspicious when he became largely unresponsive and figured out what was going on, then fired him. I think he thought he could do both at once better than he was a…
At one job we had the director of security take a lot of vacation, at his level he didn't have to report it. A couple months later someone discovered he was working full time at another company and also taking a lot of vacation there as well. Eventually the CIO fired him once the details were known. Plus he sucked at security so no idea why he even had the job in the first place.
Was he trying to time slice multiple processes like an OS?
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There's not much incentive to not do that simply as a freelancer instead, and being open about the having multiple clients. 3hours each and you could be totally productive (and not burnout)
well, but freelancers pay their own healthcare, 401k, etc. if you're running two well-paying full employments with all benefits, you have a sweet gig going. only possible in the US due to the setup of healthcare and overall taxes, etc.
Double-dipping on insurance policies messes with their actuarial table calculations.
How do we know he wasn't working at an Apple Store rather than Corporate? Apparently he wasn't in the corporate directory.
This was downvoted, but I recall it supposedly being an explicit condition of employment that you don't tell anyone that you are going to be an apple store employee?
There is something fishy in this whole story. - You wouldn't risk your new position by not quitting your old one. - Apple would not want you to keep your old job since they want your focus on your new position. - Getting double salaries is not worth the paperwork headache of tricking the system. The only reason I can think of is, he would get some sort of extra pay from his old job if he would fulfil a time written o…
Given his experience in both tech media and automotive media, perhaps he was hired at Apple as part of the team whose responsibility it will be to construct the messaging and narrative around the unveiling of Apple's car program. As part of the secrecy around the project, he might well have been hired by one of Apple's automotive shell companies [1], thus his name not appearing in the Apple intranet.
As for his employment overlap, that sounds more like a mishandled quiet departure than anything else – Apple HR would certainly have instructed him to keep his transition low-profile, and maybe he simply screwed it up.
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/alleged-apple-front-company-a...
How do we know he wasn't working at an Apple Store rather than Corporate? Apparently he wasn't in the corporate directory.
Its funny with the rise of more remote work with flexible hours I wonder if there's not more then one person who's double dipping. I imagine a pretty good engineer could maybe work two full time jobs pretty easily remotely working 4-5 hours per day on each gig.
There's not much incentive to not do that simply as a freelancer instead, and being open about the having multiple clients. 3hours each and you could be totally productive (and not burnout)