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    “Sono stato perseguito per frode perché avevo due incarichi comunali contemporaneamente”

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    1. wkavinsky on

      You’re paid to be present and available for the contracted hours.

      By definition, if you’ve got 2 full time jobs you are defrauding a company – it doesn’t matter if you can get through your assigned work for both in a day.

      Fuck around, find out, pretty much.

    2. Spamgrenade on

      I’m willing to bet that this guy can get all the work done from both his council jobs by the end of the morning. Council dropped their case because they didn’t want this exposed.

    4. ash_ninetyone on

      If you have a job with contracted hours, your company reasonably expects you to be focussed on those hours.

      If you have two jobs where those hours overlaps, then you’re effectively billing them both for time you should have dedicated to only one. The only circumstance that is ok is if both employers are aware of it and are fine with it.

      Some companies are stricter than others on this, and dismissal is the lighter punishment than if they want to claim damages.

    5. TTNNBB2023 on

      >he noticed somebody had begun to track his cursor movements as he worked from home

      So he was doing these two jobs on a laptop he was supplied to do one of the jobs then? This or they hacked him. Either way its a bit creepy and maybe why they did not want to pursue the case.

    6. Salty-Bid1597 on

      Everyone knows it: in all offices 20% of the people do 80% of the work.

      Most people are underemployed and don’t tell their managers because they don’t want more work (and their managers probably don’t either). You can’t get away with it in a manual job but in computer based work it’s very easy and WFH makes it even easier.

    7. HallettCove5158 on

      I don’t see how he was committing fraud if he was fulfilling the roles and receiving praise.

    8. bulldog_blues on

      The big question is how was he even able to juggle two full time council jobs at once and it took people so long to notice. Both of those jobs must be pretty light on duties!

    9. Sonchay on

      While this is obviously inappropriate behaviour that shouldn’t be condoned, the fact these stories happen do kinda show that in this modern age we should consider shifting our metric of employment measurement away from rigidly focusing on time/hours and more on performance/output/productivity for certain roles. As the movie “Office Space” put it years 27 ago “If I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don’t see another dime… my only real motivation is not to get hassled, that and the fear of losing my job, but that’ll only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired!”

    10. Brainchild110 on

      Nah mate, this was your screw up. Don’t double dip with the same employer. It was an obvious rule and you got cocky.

      Dude could have had it made by just choosing his jobs better.

    11. anangrywizard on

      > As the government puts it: “Millions of people work hard, pay their taxes, and contribute to their communities. The government owes it to them to ensure decency and respect, and to hold every single person who cheats the system to account.”

      Stones in glass houses here…

    12. goimpres on

      It’s wild that the real scandal here is how little actual work these jobs seem to require.

    13. BurritoBaz on

      A huge number of people do the work of 2-3 people – they just don’t like it when you actually get paid for it. 

    14. OkPea5819 on

      Shows how unproductive normal council employees are, quelle surprise.

    15. Train-rex on

      But MP’s can have 3 jobs, a dozen non-executive directorships and ‘consult’ on the side, and never turn up in the commons to vote, but this guy is cheating the system?

    16. Drummk on

      Ultimately, it suggests neither of his jobs needed to be a full time position.

    17. jamesc1071 on

      I wonder what really was going on.

      The guy Paul doesn’t seem to understand what happened.

      First of all, he was caught. He says a colleague may have told his employer, but he doesn’t say how the colleague would know. I wonder whether his second council job would have showed up in his tax code, for example.

      Second, he doesn’t understand how it might be fraud. He will have lied to obtain his salary – when he signed his contract or when he told his employer what he was doing.

      Third, he doesn’t seem to understand that he got off lightly – probably because the council decided not to pursue him

    18. plawwell on

      What did he actually do wrong? Lots of people have multiple jobs. You don’t owe your life to any single employer no matter what they think.

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