I have an employee at my startup, and he is moonlighting. He doesn’t make any effort to hide it, and generally I haven’t paid attention. He is paid under market, so I get why he needs extra income. He does have some stock options though, but not too many.
That said, he isn’t always producing good work, and takes a lot of time off, compared to other employees.
I would have just let it go, since they are fairly inexpensive and do an adequate job, some times, but they just asked for a raise.
There’s no way I’m giving a raise, but just trying to decide if we should just terminate them and move on, or put up with it.