'Microsoft employee gets $300,000 for working 15-20 hours a week’: X user’s post goes viral

• An X user says she has a friend in Microsoft who works 15-20 hours per week
• The employee plays League of Legends for most of the time
• The user's post has over 2 million views

Every person has a unique working style. While one employee could take hours in finishing a job, other could complete the same task in much lesser time. And in the recent times, ever since debates about work-life balance have taken centre stage, many people are talking about how being productive has nothing to do with the number of hours an employee puts in to complete a job. An X user, in a recent post, shared that she has a friend working at Microsoft who works for only 15-20 hours per week and plays League (of Legends) for the rest of the time.

The post has now gone viral and people are dropping a mix of hilarious and serious comments. While one user asked if there are any openings, another commented that as long as the work is getting done, this shouldn’t be a problem.

X user’s viral post

In the post, the user wrote, “talking to my friend who works at microsoft & apparently he works 15-20 hr weeks & plays league the rest of the time & gets paid $300k for it”

The post, at the time of writing this story, has 2 million views.

As mentioned already, people are reacting to the news and are wondering if they too, can land such a job.

“What are the reqs for this job and any open positions?,” a user wrote while another commented, “Dream job lol I'd love 20 hours a week over 40 so much.”

Other users, meanwhile, mentioned that there’s nothing wrong with this if the person can complete the task assigned to them.

“If they can do the same work in 20 hours that someone else doing the same job would need 40 to achieve — then I don't see the issue,” a user said. Another user wrote, “Most CEOs would love a person who got results and hit the mark - no matter how many or few hours they work.”

Another user was all praises for League of Legends players and said, “I’ve met so many people like that... in league... they always seem very smart though, and are very high rank... so maybe they're 10x engineering gods who don't need to work a lot like us peasants”

Amazon employee who gets paid to do nothing

This isn’t the first time that a techie has been in the limelight for getting paid more to do less. Last month, an Amazon worker was making headlines for saying that he gets paid Rs 3 crore a year for practically doing nothing.

The employee, who has been with Amazon for a year and a half, shared his story on Blind, an anonymous platform. They revealed that after being laid off from Google, they joined Amazon with a deliberate intention to do as little work as possible while still drawing a significant paycheque. The strategy, the employee claims, involved performing the bare minimum necessary to avoid raising any red flags with his managers.

"I joined Amazon 1.5 years ago after being laid off from Google," the employee wrote and added, ”My goal was simple: do nothing, collect a salary, and eventually get placed on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP).”