The Only Way to Get Revenge on Capitalism (Without Getting Killed)
Soham Parekh, Tech Bro Hypocrisy, and Getting Laid Off 1 Day Before Earning My Equity
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It started like most good internet stories do: with a viral tweet, mild absurdity, and a tiny whiff of scandal.
Soham Parekh, an Indian software engineer, had somehow worked ~10 remote jobs simultaneously.
Not over a decade.
Not one after another.
At the same damn time.
The startup world lost its mind.
Suddenly every tech bro on Twitter turned into a morality cop. Reddit was flooded with speculative breakdowns of how he pulled it off. TikTok gurus weighed in like courtroom analysts. It was the Trial of Soham Parekh, and everyone had an opinion.
But the real twist?
Every former coworker who spoke up said the same thing:
He was nice.
He did good work.
He wasn’t slacking.
Yeah, he skipped meetings and pushed a few deadlines back, but often not enough to be fired.
So… what exactly are we mad about?
Why did this become a scandal?
Soham didn’t break the rules of employment.
He broke the illusion.
Bullshit Jobs
If the work is real, 10 jobs is impossible. Period.
But if the jobs are bullshit—and you can juggle 10 of them without anyone noticing?
Well, that’s not scamming, that’s proof.
Proof that most white-collar jobs don’t exist to create value but to perform productivity. It isn’t your fault if the boss doesn’t know the difference. Now, I could pull out David Graeber’s definition of a “bullshit job” and run through the theory.
But honestly?
Soham Parekh is the theory.
He’s the applied mathematics of a system built on empty promises, professional illusions, and an economy that only knows how to extract.
These jobs are bullshit because the people in charge aren’t running companies—they’re selling stories. The story of The Startup that is going to disrupt entire industries, reinvent innovation itself, and become the next unicorn so already rich people can become even richer!
Yippee.
Soham teaches us that, apparently, you can bullshit a bullshitter.
If you’re too deep in notion workflows to notice your engineer is working nine other jobs… that sounds like a you problem, buddy.
In This Economy?
“How can Soham work 10 jobs?!”
That’s the wrong question.
We’re living through a cost-of-living crisis, rapidly advancing AI automation, and the most geopolitical volatility since the Second World War.
How can you afford not to work 10 jobs?
Working 110% at one job doesn’t make you noble, it makes you a corporate cuckold.
You stay loyal.
You give your all.
You don’t stack jobs.
You drink the kool-aid.
You believe in the company mission, the team, the product.
What happens then?
A tale as old as time.
A few weeks before the Soham story, a Twitter engineer was fired just 10 days before his vesting cliff.
He lost out on equity he’s been working toward for years.
That story made the rounds because it involved a big-name company and a prolific shit-poster.
But here’s the secret no one wants to admit:
This happens all the time.
It happened to me just a week earlier:
Years of effort—and a life-changing amount of money for a peasant like me—down the drain.
I worked nights.
I worked weekends.
I worked through part of my goddamn parental leave so the team could hit an important deadline.
My thanks?
Getting “laid off” one day before the equity I’d sacrificed so much to earn.
ONE. FUCKING. DAY.1
That’s all it took to erase everything I gave.
And I won’t lie to you: it hurts.
The disappointment, the betrayal by people I thought were my friends, the traumatic stress of my finances falling out from under me—putting my entire family at risk.
Is that how you want to end up?
Screwed over, years of your life vanishing into cold, thin air faster than the Epstein files?
Or, do you want to be like Soham—pragmatically working multiple jobs, stacking paychecks, and fighting back with the only option that’s left?
You Wanted a Free Market? This Is the Free Market.
This is what gets me.
When companies lay people off right before an IPO?
“Just business.”
When trust funds gut your department and pocket the difference?
“Capital efficiency.”
When a founder fires you the day before your equity cliff?
“They had to make hard choices.”
But when a worker decides to sell their time to whoever pays for it—without loyalty to a single employer?
Suddenly it’s “unethical.”
Suddenly it’s “dishonest.”
Suddenly it’s “career-ending.”
So let’s be honest.
You were never in this for merit, or value, or even the vague dignity of capitalism.
You wanted to get rich.
And you wanted someone else to pay the price.
Let’s not forget the original tweet that started this storm was an attempt to publicly shame and blacklist Soham from the industry.
Meanwhile, Suhail’s own bio clearly states he’s building two separate companies. I’m sure he’s investing, advising, and “leading” even more behind the scenes.
When the rich stack income streams, they get called brilliant. When we peasants do it, we get publicly shamed, blacklisted and Fucked.
That’s some real rules for thee, not for me energy.
And I, for one, think that’s kinda lame.
Final Thoughts
Soham Parekh isn’t the villain.
He’s the mirror.
He didn’t steal from the system.
He revealed it.
And what he revealed was damning.
These jobs were fake.
The managers were clueless.
The system squeezed us, and fucked us over the second it was convenient.
So yeah, we are tired.
We are tired of doing two months of work in two weeks.
We are tired of building your perfect product and then being “laid off” the day before getting our piece of the pie.
We are tired of ghostwriting “thought leadership” tweets for people who can’t be bothered with those pesky little things like thinking—or leading.
When you shafted us, you shrugged your shoulders and said, “that’s the free market.”
Well guess what?
The free market works two ways, you trust-fund motherfucker.
And if you can’t survive in the meritocracy you claim to worship—
maybe you shouldn’t be running the place?
The real salt in the wound? I’m not internet famous enough to name & shame—so those bastards will get away with it.
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I want to give this 100 likes, because it’s the real deal. Companies that don’t solve problems or make the world better are only in it for extraction and profit. Workers are dispensable to them. Hell, customers are dispensable to them.
There are places in the universe where intelligence, collaboration, and problem solving come together and everyone benefits. Those are the groups I seek to work with; and say fuck all to the asshats.