I work from home so my boss doesn't know I've been juggling two other jobs on company time for the past three years. Here's how I get away with it...

I work from home so my boss doesn't know I've been juggling two other jobs on company time for the past three years. Here's how I get away with it..

. By Anonymous Published: 20:38 EDT, 8 October 2024 | Updated: 20:40 EDT, 8 October 2024 e-mail View comments Arriving for my early evening shift at The Red Lion a few weeks ago, I greeted my landlord John and made straight for the dishwasher which had just finished a load. I was stacking the steaming hot glasses on the shelves when my phone buzzed in my pocket with a message.

'Meeting Scheduled: 4.30pm. Join Zoom Meeting: Meeting ID: 555 1864 1849' 'What the.

.?' My stomach fell to the floor. I glanced at the clock.

It was 4.10pm already and although I could just about make it home in time to open my laptop, I knew it would be risky. 'John, I'm so sorry but is there any way I can use the room upstairs to take a phone call in 20 minutes – I won't be too long?' John smiled and nodded: 'Yeah, we're not busy.

' One afternoon, about an hour before I was about to start at the pub, I was busy curling my hair for a busy Friday night shift and my boss suddenly requested an urgent Teams meeting So, at 4.28pm, I dashed up to the accommodation upstairs, smoothed down my hair, sat with my back against a plain wall so no one could see where I was and entered the Zoom meeting where my (other) boss Angela and four other colleagues were waiting. My throat was dry.

What was this about? Did they know? 'Hi Tanya, sorry for the last-minute meeting, w.