Submitted 5 days ago by ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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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.
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.
Sounds like that’ll buy you one logistic
So, once times?
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!
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.
Imagine turning down $800 an hour because you don’t want to work in a warehouse /s
I’ve got these emails before, almost exactly like this. I have a PhD, but sure, I guess I’m qualified for this too.
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.
“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.
Game development means video games, video games means crates, and crates means warehouses. So simple that even an AI can understand.
😂
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.
What an insult. People who study software and game development should be getting jobs in insurance sales, the way they always have.
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.
Punching down on game Devs a bit lmao
That is the maximum annual pay for a 0-60 h/week job.
They’re looking 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.
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.
Be mindful it also could be malicious
Fuckingcapitalists
Matches programming and game dev experience lmao we’re livin’ almost the same life on that aspect dude lol
does your resume include a sokoban clone?
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?
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
Famous last word of a software engineer who ends up working in a warehouse.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I’d do it for $800/h
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’ll do it for 800 a day…
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’d sooner go full-time on my game dev hobby and hope for the best.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
Chase your dreams. The warehouse will always be there.
Coolcoder360@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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…
SeattleRain@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Bro, maybe I don’t think you should have to eat shit either.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
It was a topical joke revolving around the numerous rounds of tech layoffs since 2023, as well as the current state of the industry, which is pretty awful and toxic if you’re a software engineer currently looking for work.
SeattleRain@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Statistically you’re far more likely to get laid off then he is.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
I’m a software engineer who was laid off.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.