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Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

ExtraMedicated @lemmy.world

2mo ago

Go fuck yourself, Mike

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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Famous last words of a software engineer who ends up working in a warehouse.
- I'd do it for $800/h
  
  I'll do it for 800 a day...
- I'd sooner go full-time on my game dev hobby and hope for the best.
  
  Chase your dreams. The warehouse will always be there.
  
  You could probably make $800 doing game dev too. Maybe not with only one game, but $800 with game dev hobby sounds better to me than $800 to be a warehouse associate for an unknown amount of time...
- So you think you're too good to eat shit? Wait until you have to like I do.
  Bro, maybe I don't think you should have to eat shit either.
  
  It was a topical joke revolving around the numerous rounds of tech layoffs since 2023, as well as the current state of industry hiring, which is pretty depressing and toxic if you're a software engineer currently looking for work.
- Statistically you're far more likely to get laid off then he is.
  
  I'm a software engineer who was recently laid off.
  
  Not this year lol, tech has been hit hard.
  Which, I mean, no one has any sympathy, those guys have been coddled and overpaid for a decade.
  But yeah, this year, lots of tech layoffs.

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

Wow, they'll pay you $800/time?
- nah just $800. once.
  
  So, once times?
  
  Sounds like that'll buy you one logistic

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?
- they're sent en masse, yes. To literally everyone.
- This is someone using a tool/service to mass send emails, but never bothered to configure it.
  Hey
  We are reaching you regarding your
  <profile experience>
  . See job

Is it a remote position? I'd consider working in a warehouse if I didn't have to leave my home.
- With something like a VR and HOTAS setup
  
  Preferably some interface I could automate with a small shell-script 😀

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.
- And downright shallow as well!

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

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

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.

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"
- 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.

These emails never match the resume. I work at a warehouse and like the job, but I definitely wouldn't trust some random person spamming me. When I was looking for a job, some guy was trying to get me to take this really sketchy job selling phones. Thanks but no thanks.

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

"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.

Be mindful it also could be malicious

Matches programming and game dev experience lmao we're livin' almost the same life on that aspect dude lol

Wait, would I have to actually do anything?
- Pick things up and put them down, is my guess.
  
  I mean if you think about it, programming is just picking up and putting down letters in a file.

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

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.

WE'RE BRINGING THE BIG ENERGY!!!

Punching down on game Devs a bit lmao

That is the maximum annual pay for a 0-60 h/week job.
- 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.
  
  Upvoted even though your comment created intense loathing and a little rage within me.

does your resume include a sokoban clone?

Fuckingcapitalists

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

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

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.

it's 800 per day
- My rate is 800 an hour. Know your worth

Oh, I thought this was a "data warehouse" kinda joke?

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