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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 maybe, he's been all along an agent of a third corporation that has yet to be revealed...
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.
3hours each and you could be totally productive (and not burnout)
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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.
But if he was known publicly before this then Apple would have easily found out.
Anyway, this theory is getting too convoluted, hence almost certainly false :)
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)
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.
The most hilarious aspect of this story is it took nearly two months before anyone noticed he was gone.
From the sounds of things, it was roughly a month ("[he] was not in contact with us through most of August and into September."). That's probably not super crazy for a reasonably senior writer working on "longish" form stuff. While a month is probably a long time, I wouldn't be surprised if a week or two usually passed without touching base. It might take a couple of those "week or two" cycles to notice someone hasn'…
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 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…
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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.
And are paid more to compensate for it. Whereas if you're working for two employers you're "paying" for two sets of healthcare etc., which seems wasteful.
Why is Gruber's link to a Verge article the one attached to this discussion? Why not the Verge directly?