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☆ A fire department clerk in Buffalo reportedly was paid more than $500K over 7 years – even though she didn't show up for work and actually had a second job
  + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A Buffalo fire department clerk was reportedly paid more than half a million dollars despite not working. Jill Repman collected checks for 7.5 years while on administrative leave after being accused of tampering with payroll, Investigative Post reports. She was working another job while she remained on the city's payroll, per Investigative Post. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe City of Buffalo has paid Repman $572,067 since 2016, the Investigative Post reported, citing state payroll records compiled by government watchdog The Empire Center. The matter of so-called "fake work," referring to employees being paid to do little or no work, has also made headlines this year, primarily in the tech sector.
Persons: Jill Repman, Jill Parisi, Repman, Jill, —, Keith Rabois, Thomas Siebel, Rabois, Britney Levy Organizations: Service, Security, Empire Center . Buffalo City Hall Locations: Buffalo, Wall, Silicon, Buffalo's City, New York
☆ Tech workers are taking to TikTok to debate 'fake work'
  + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Grace Kay | Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Former tech staffers have taken to TikTok to discuss and debate "fake work." Earlier this month, Kendall Smith, known by her TikTok name @roilysm, shared a story from Insider about PayPal Mafia member Keith Rabois saying workers at Meta and Google were doing "fake work." Aube told Insider in a comment that he never saw anyone at the company "not doing any work or doing fake work." One TikTok creator, Arianna Tong, says she couldn't disagree more with the idea of fake work at Meta. "I've seen so many videos chiming in and saying they did fake work at Meta," @ariannatong said in a TikTok video.
☆ TikTok's potential buyers
  + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( Hallam Bullock | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Analysts estimate the price tag for TikTok's US assets could fall anywhere between $40 billion and $100 billion. ": Married couple who both worked for Silicon Valley grieved after its collapse. Peter Thiel said he had $50 million in a personal account at Silicon Valley Bank when it collapsed. Silicon Valley Bank employees react to the bank's collapse Getty ImagesFrom our tech analysis team:9. Silicon Valley Bank's meltdown shows that tech's elites need the government after all.
☆ A laid-off Meta worker says the company paid her to not work: They were 'hoarding us like Pokémon cards'
  + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
An ex-Meta worker said she was part of a group that didn't have work to do when hired. Britney Levy told Insider some people were frustrated and felt Meta was stalling their careers. In the video that has since garnered over 870,000 views, Levy said she felt Meta was hiring people so other companies couldn't have them. "They were just kind of like hoarding us like Pokémon cards," she said in the video. "People who were incredibly well qualified and had turned down amazing opportunities said they felt Meta was intentionally stalling their career.
☆ Billionaire tech CEO says Meta and Google over-hired so much they didn't have enough work for employees: 'They really were doing nothing'
  + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Grace Kay | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
C3.ai's CEO said Google and Meta over-hired employees and didn't have enough work for them to do. Thomas Siebel joked that if you want to work remote "in your pajamas," you should work at Facebook. "If you want to work from home, like four days of work in your pajamas, go to work for Facebook." Siebel is far from the first executive to express concern that tech workers aren't doing enough work. Last year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that remote work has spurred "productivity paranoia" among managers.
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