We all know someone who claims to be “super busy.” That friend who works a job, goes to the gym, runs a side hustle, has a doggy daycare business, and still somehow makes sourdough.
But one Dutch man took things to the next level: he decided to work three full-time jobs at once. Yes, three. At the same time.
Too greedy?
AD reports that the man was originally employed at housing association Wooncompas, working 36 hours per week and earning €4,560 a month.
A perfectly respectable gig. But apparently, one full-time job simply wasn’t enough.
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So in 2019, he quietly picked up another one at Mooiland in North Brabant, also full-time at 32 hours per week, bringing in an additional €4,418 every month.
At this point, he was juggling two full-time jobs.
Impressive? Maybe.
Sustainable? Absolutely not.
Unsurprisingly, something had to give
In October 2019, he told Wooncompas he was too sick to work.
A tragic turn of events… except he then continued working full-time at Mooiland. And collecting both salaries.
But he didn’t stop there.
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In April 2020, he accepted yet another full-time role, this time at Wooninvest in Voorburg.
Eventually, while working 36 hours per week there, he called in sick from Mooiland to keep things rolling smoothly.
By this point, his work ethic was less “busy professional” and more “trying to clone myself.”
It was all going so well until Wooncompas discovered in July 2020 that their supposedly ill employee was very much fine, well, and employed elsewhere.
They promptly fired him and took him to court
Speaking at one of his hearings, the man argued that “My starting point was precisely to work hard. It’s true that I thought I could do the work in 20 hours, while my contract was for 36 hours”
He had even lied to a company doctor, claiming he’d suffered a relapse in June 2020, while he was actually starting his shiny new job at Wooninvest.
In the end, he was ordered to repay €43,766 in salary he received while on fraudulent sick leave, plus €6,739 in legal costs.
Do you work a normal number of hours, or are you also secretly working a bajillion jobs just to make it to the end of the month? 😅 Tell us in the comments, we promise we won’t call HR.
