<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gumby</author><text>In a salaried position your offer letter (that you sign) specifies you won’t do other renumeratwd work without the permission of your employer. Technically that’s not violating the &lt;i&gt;law&lt;/i&gt; but it’s a violation of contract.&lt;p&gt;It’s funny though!</text><parent_chain><item><author>deepsun</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why people assume it&amp;#x27;s scamming or cheating.
It&amp;#x27;s perfectly legal, and I&amp;#x27;d say it&amp;#x27;s even good for country economy.&lt;p&gt;The employer might state that &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s our mutual understanding&amp;quot; about anything in job offer, but it&amp;#x27;s not a legally binding statement. Anti-competitive statements can be binding, though, so it might be illegal for them to work at FB and Google, as their business might intersect. But it&amp;#x27;s a different story than just right to hold two &amp;quot;full-time&amp;quot; jobs.&lt;p&gt;One possibility I might think of -- if an employee is really a high performer, but couldn&amp;#x27;t negotiate compensation above &amp;quot;market price&amp;quot; for their level.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Employee works for both Google and Facebook from home</title><url>https://twitter.com/arrington/status/1311520168200163328</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>andrewcl</author><text>Big companies guard their IP quite strongly. I&amp;#x27;d be surprised if he or she isn&amp;#x27;t fired immediately once this is discovered for reasons related to that.</text><parent_chain><item><author>deepsun</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why people assume it&amp;#x27;s scamming or cheating.
It&amp;#x27;s perfectly legal, and I&amp;#x27;d say it&amp;#x27;s even good for country economy.&lt;p&gt;The employer might state that &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s our mutual understanding&amp;quot; about anything in job offer, but it&amp;#x27;s not a legally binding statement. Anti-competitive statements can be binding, though, so it might be illegal for them to work at FB and Google, as their business might intersect. But it&amp;#x27;s a different story than just right to hold two &amp;quot;full-time&amp;quot; jobs.&lt;p&gt;One possibility I might think of -- if an employee is really a high performer, but couldn&amp;#x27;t negotiate compensation above &amp;quot;market price&amp;quot; for their level.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Employee works for both Google and Facebook from home</title><url>https://twitter.com/arrington/status/1311520168200163328</url></story>