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Honestly, I find these emails more amusing than infuriating. Is that $800 per week? Total? I guess I'll never know, because I didn't become a software developer just to work in a warehouse.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

He started off planning to recruit you for a $225k a year job working on logistics software, then he checked your GitHub and the offer is what it is.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

it was $800/hr and you missed it, schmuck!

no honestly I can't comprehend why people don't include the important parts in the actual listing, it's exhausting and pedantic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

And downright shallow as well!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

"I see that you have programming and game development skills and I think that makes you perfect for picking and shipping in a warehouse."

Fuck you if you're a bit and triple fuck you if you're a human.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Game development means video games, video games means crates, and crates means warehouses. So simple that even an AI can understand.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

What an insult. People who study software and game development should be getting jobs in insurance sales, the way they always have.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wait, would I have to actually do anything?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pick things up and put them down, is my guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean if you think about it, programming is just picking up and putting down letters in a file.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There's a reason my mouse has buttons dedicated to copy and paste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

You use a mouse? What a noob. Use vim and be enlightened

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Punching down on game Devs a bit lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That is the maximum annual pay for a 0-60 h/week job.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

They're looking for someone with a "strong work ethic" who is passionate about being a warehouse associate and really embraces the warehouse's family-like culture.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Upvoted even though your comment created intense loathing and a little rage within me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I like to reply to these with tons of questions, no stone unturned. If they give a reasonable answer is likely legit. I get a bunch of these because of a resume that had all my warehouse experience on it, big mistake since I don't know who has it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I think they want to hire you to write a Sokoban AI, and are offering 800 an hour.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I keep getting those sort of emails for jobs I have absolutely no qualifications for. Usually something in the finance or healthcare industry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There is always a small audience who responds to this type of message, most likely outside a first world country. The problem is that they spam broadcast to everyone, of which 99.99% laughs at it and ignores it. Those who do respond are vulnerable to the scam.

Some rings promise good wages overseas, and when people buy in to the scam they end up enslaved in a warehouse overseas.

This is a low cost spam message to find more victims to fill the overseas jails filled with workers committing high tech crimes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

My rate is 800 an hour. Know your worth

[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Famous last words of a software engineer who ends up working in a warehouse.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll do it for 800 a day...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nah, it's just a one-time wage, then you're a slave

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Just a slavery signing bonus

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'd sooner go full-time on my game dev hobby and hope for the best.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chase your dreams. The warehouse will always be there.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Famous last words from someone before the warehouse isn't there

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My favorite version of this was an ad for applebees that said "you belong here!". Like, I know that they meant it to be welcoming, but it came across as vaguely threatening ...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

-Marcus Cole, (Babylon 5, a late delivery from Avalon)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

One of my favourite quotes from the show.
Glad I'm not the only one that remembers it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It’s easily one of my favorite TV shows of all time.

Though the line that’s been rolling through my head since Gaza started is Delenn getting pissed at Lando and G’kar, shouting “When does it end?!” That rant is…. Piercing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I thinnk it's time for antoher rewatch… again.

The show had so many good and memorable things. It's kinda sad though that so many things from this show are still relevannt today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi. but you're welcome to try... anytime."

(good god did Walter Koenig play that role. it's incredibly different from Chekov, and he was amazing at both. and wow are the one liner's in bab5 just... memorable.)

If you're looking for things that still have an enduring relevance today... check out the OG the Day the Earth Stood Still not the remake with keanu reeves. that one deserves the George Lucas Holiday Special™️treatment. It's classic 1950's scifi at it's peak. (yes, that's easily my favorite movie. hands down.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Oh yeah, that's a movie that's been on my "to watch list" for a long time. Same as the Kurosawa Samurai movies. I really should get around to watch them finally. 😞

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Man with how much of my life was front loaded with suffering I wish I could just use it as a "get out of current issue free" card.

I find it very unfair actually how few people actually have to face consequences for their actions in meaningful ways. I don't want them repeating them.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wow, they'll pay you $800/time?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't know if these things are sent en masse by a bot or by a person, but it's like they don't even skim your profile before hitting send. Like I specifically said "Work from home only", what makes you think I want your "hybrid" opportunity in bumfuck Illinois that barely pays what it should for my experience?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

they're sent en masse, yes. To literally everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is it a remote position? I'd consider working in a warehouse if I didn't have to leave my home.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

I've got these emails before, almost exactly like this. I have a PhD, but sure, I guess I'm qualified for this too.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Imagine turning down $800 an hour because you don't want to work in a warehouse /s

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Honestly looks like a scam email because it's as little detail as possible. Did you check the email? Bet it's going to be a bunch of numbers "@gmail"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Absolutely a scam. There's about 10 common ways to bleed money out of somebody at that point. Maybe You're paying for a background check or certification. Maybe they send you a check that's too big, and you need to send them back some cash, only to find out that the check itself got reversed in your account after you mail off the money.

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