My boss is likely moonlighting
I work at a startup. And It’s super funny but I think my boss is moonlighting. Here are the facts:
- he’s hardly focused
- he’s hardly trying to expand her role at work
- he’s regularly on external calls taken secretly
- he doesn’t care to understand what’s going on in other parts of our company
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Why is moonlighting unethical? Let’s keep legality aside for a minute although it is not illegal. Your senior leaders are directors at multiple companies. CEO of startups like Lenskart, shadi etc are sitting on TV for personal investments which they will make money of and spending hours in shooting. Those same CEOs layoff as per their whims and fancies. But when a lowly employee with a meagre salary tries to increase his/her earning potential, this crab mentality kicks in and it becomes unethical.
A person can be too good to handle both(or more) jobs superbly. However, if there are performance issues, you deal with that as an employer. It’s not like people working on a single job don’t underperform.
Also, there are 24 hours in a day and I am “supposed “ to work for 8 hours. Mathematically, a person can work 3 jobs in a day (and try to sleep at work).
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If a person works at 2 companies that is unethical but if the same person works at a company and works on separate projects from upwork that is freelancing and that is also ethical.
Most of the Doctors ,Lawyers & CA in India serve at different hospitals & different firms but neither government or these institutions called them as moonlighting but when it comes to engineering jobs every one start shouting they call it as trade secrets breach but when for example Infosys is having same domain client like Morgan Stanley & Goldman sachs then it doesn’t breach the law only engineer’s are paid less and they can’t even build their house they remain tenets through out their life and when their children’s are getting married at the same time they are fired because they are not productive but if you see in other professions more the experience better the doctor , CA, Lawyers….
It's totally unethical and breach of contract. Let's not normalise this behavior. Complaint about him
Nothing wrong with making an effort to earn more. Why such stupid contracts exist that stops you from earning more? Your company won’t hesitate before laying your ass off when the time comes. Stop being a moral police.
Then be a free lancer and work in any number of company. You are lying and cheating the company who is hiring you full time. Employee like this give bad name to India. Where every one say Indian techie are totally unethical and not professional