Literally paying to work
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They finally found a way to make money off of AI
As always:
Is shit like this counted when they list the number of open job in the country?
Knowing how backwards things are here, yeah probably
Yes, that's the point.
Almost certainly, they're counting on their "audits" consisting of a script that looks for "$500 per week" in the descriotion to confirm that they're posting ads.
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Earn -$500 lol
-24k a year
"But you're not considering how valuable this experience will be!"
So much to evade that gap in the resume
What gap?
I've not been unemployed, I've been under a strict NDA for a very private employer. No, I'm not allowed their share their contact information. Sorry.
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Do not let this person split up a bill for your restaurant party, folks
(I'm only joking, but I think you did the math the wrong way, $500x12=$6k)
Edit: yep.I'm an idiot, thanks folks, my poor example will stand as a testament to others, don't shame yourself publicly like this and pay attention in school!
$500 per week - 500x48=24k with 4 weeks of thankfully "unpaid" vacation
United States
4 weeks of vacation
Lol
If the employee “works” every day of the year they earn -$26000
My longest vacation was 3 months.*
* …after I got laid off.
It's per week.
500 x 4 = 2000/month
2000 x 12 = 24k
By all means i'd love to split restaurant bills with you ;)
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Join, pay, request chargeback from your card company.
When they dispute it: “The position clearly says unpaid. So I won’t pay.”
Use AI to expand this argument to 10 pages. Bonus points for citing nonexistent court decisions.
Also bonus times for writing those prompts on company time.
Bonus points for citing nonexistent court decisions.
That comes for free with using an LLM to make the argument.
Getting really nervous when my office computer sign-on keeps prompting me to enter my credit card information.
Amateurs. Just call the weekly fee tuition, the position a research assistant, and the company a university and they are all set.
Hey, sorry overworked employees. I posted an ad to fill a position so we have enough wiggle room to let you breathe for once, but no one applied. Well, back to work!
Sounds illegal.
Everytime I hear about the need to pay to do a job, my mind immediately jumps to pyramid scheme.
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Seriously though… is this shit real?
Apparently this was some sort of job posting "experiment" from a couple of years ago.
this will be a competitive prompt engineer salary in about two years time.
Apply just to not pay and have the position terminated
The fact that I’m wondering if it serious or a joke, is worrisome…
It's definitely a joke or some sort of weird art statement, the only thing that bothers me is that I once got my decade-old account banned from LinkedIn for posting a job that they decided was discriminatory because it had a language requirement, and yet somehow this has passed their filters?
You say definitely but it could be serious. In China there are people who pay to work, to avoid being « flagged » as unemployed, which apparently is worse than paying for a fake job.
Well... it's not an unpaid internship, we're just not splitting hairs on who's getting paid.
Hungary unofficially have pay for internship positions thanks to extremely corrupt HR departments, and internship time mandates from colleges. Basically it ruined my dream of getting a college degree, because at my age especially, it would have cost me a small fortune.
I get that the glib answer will be "so they can make money"
But what is the actual thought process they are pretending to go through here? Cause the experience of being a prompt engineer is not some sought after experience like how people pay to be movie PAs for free or work as an artist assistant.
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Cross posting this to shitty million dollar ideas. This is the kind of out of the box thinking that we need to increase corporate profits and pump up those numbers. You are a real go getter here. good job.
I wonder if this job is targeted to a specific person so that the person it's for will apply, but no one else will
Besides the obvious ripoff, is there some sort of fraudulent or tax reason why they would make the employee pay for it?
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big brain move
I’m very been a Netflix employee for years.
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