Genius
Submitted 16 hours ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Coca-Cola owns the machines, btw.
Agent641@lemmy.world 37 minutes ago
Guess who owns a key for the machine?!
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Guess who own Coca Cola —-> Passive Income /s
tipicaldik@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I used to run an auto service center with a Coke machine in the waiting room. Once a month I would get a commission check in the mail from Coca-Cola for usually about $50 or $60. We averaged about 40 cars a day through that place so the machine got a lot of business…
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
putting the “ass” in passive!
Snowclone@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That’s not passive… 60 interviews a day?
falidorn@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
That’s active income.
someguy3@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Now hire someone to do the interviews, then it’s passive income.
falidorn@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Unless he’s now managing that person. Then it’s industry! Don’t mind us, we are just out here creating jobs.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
If he were smart, he would hire a full-time interviewee to ensure there’s always someone interviewing and buying drinks at a steady, predictable rate. Easiest money you’ll ever make.
renzev@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I guess if he’s getting paid to do the interviews then it’s technically passive… wait no, then the whole interviewer thing would just count as advertising for his vending machine business
GladiusB@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s deceptive advertising. I wouldn’t consider it actual advertising.
ReiRose@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It’d be better if they had multiple rooms, multiple vending machines and multiple interviewers. Pay the interviewers to do the work and take the passive income.
But also this is horrible noone should do this.
Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago
Am I confused on why people are overcomplicating the math and adding assumptions to a clear given.
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60 applications a day.
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Half of them (30) buy something.
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Makes 300 per day.
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They make $10 per vending customer.
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We can safely ignore operating costs and sementics to conclude this is massive ragebait.
udon@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Agree with the ragebait, but (theoretically) they might interview more than one person at a time. He talks about 50-60 interviews a day, so with that seat layout, we have a max of 8*60=480 interviewees (assuming the interviewer is also sitting). That would be 240 drinks per day.
But it’s going to be quite busy. Let’s say he works 12 hours = 5 interviews/hour = 12 minutes per interview = 1.5 minutes per interviewee. That is not accounting for the time everyone needs to settle in and sit down/get up and out again; the time for him to casually get people to use their very limited time to buy a drink instead of being interviewed somehow (?) Also not accounting for the work involved in inviting and scheduling people, refilling the machine, costs of drinks, office space etc. And the soul draining work of funneling 480 people per day through a stupid fake interview, repeat the same thing every 12 minutes, just to get them to buy a drink instead of doing something useful.
What a nightmare. In this scenario, he is really the person to feel bad for. Imagine a life like that 😅
And apart from that: The more logical setup would be to turn off the air condition in the waiting area and put the vending machine there.
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Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
This is a capitalistic nightmare, just getting people on interviews to give them false hope just to make money from them. This is a scam.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Warning⛔: comment section filled with haters trying to keep a player down 😤
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Put out a bowl of extra salty peanuts and crank up the heat. Open a small bar in the corner serving margaritas, mojitos, pina coladas, etc… Sit back and watch the passive income roll in.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
That’s not “Passive” income, if you have to attract 50-60 people per day, pretend to interview them, while subliminally encouraging them to use the vending machine. That’s called a full-time job, and probably illegal, too.
And that isn’t $300/day profit, he has to pay for those items in his machine. The profit is probably no more than 50%, so $150/day. For an 8 hour day, that’s $18.75 an hour. That’s a lot of work for not that much money. It certainly isn’t “Passive.”
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Plus rent, electricity, etc…
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
At lowest estimates that’s a 17hr work day 🤣. 20 minute interviews with no delay in between and no lunch or bathroom breaks.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
If you’re going to be self-employed, at least be a good boss to yourself. It doesn’t make sense to treat yourself like the worst boss you’ve ever had.
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
50 interviews a DAY??
officermike@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
More unbelievable is the implication that the average applicant spends $5-6 in the vending machine
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Sir, this is the internet. Noone would lie about something like that here.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 8 hours ago
More than $5-$6. He's making $300 income which implies the expenses are deducted. The actual price is $5-$6 + actual cost of whatever is in the vending machine
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
50 interviews in 8 hours is about 10 minutes per interview, and that’s back to back, no breaks, no lunch, no one being late, etc.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Not that I believe this is real in any way. But there are ten chairs at that table. His interview could be like those predatory knife MLMs where they pack the room full of idiots to find the one apex idiot.
Schedule:
Ten at a time. Ten minutes each.
Even if you space them out to the top of the hour you have time for a long lunch where you can commend yourself about being a drain on your species while staring at yourself in the bathroom mirror of a cracker barrel where you are scoping out some poor underage girl to molest verbally.
Wait… What were we talking about?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
interviews meaning, spending time on the computer having a software/AI to weed applications that is.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
That’s not passive income. That’s a lot of work.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Found the lazy hippie
Agent641@lemmy.world 36 minutes ago
Nobody wants to work anymore
hperrin@lemmy.ca 52 minutes ago
How dare you so accurately clock me from one post.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
presumably they get a salary and the 300 is extra just for suggesting it.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
60 interviews, at just 15 minutes each, is 15 hours a day. Someone is putting in an astounding amount of work for just $300.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 15 hours ago
$37.50 an hour to talk to a minimum of 6 strangers that want something from me and think I can deliver it for them?
I’d rather be an urban outdoorsman.
Agent641@lemmy.world 35 minutes ago
Urban outdoorsman?
ChexMax@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Yeah and that doesn’t count the time listing the fake jobs, or scheduling the interviews
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This is TOTALY real and in no way, designed to infuriate people dumb enough to believe it.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 6 hours ago
If you look closer, it’s also off-brand drinks, meaning, he absolutely owns the machine, operates it, and restocks.
However, I do wonder the electric costs.
udon@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yes, that is a debate. AFAIK (from Japan), the vending machine providers give home owners a monthly rent for putting the machine on their property, but the home owners pay for the electricity costs. There was an article 1-2 years ago about how that model became basically a zero sum game for the home owners, because of rising electricity costs but I don’t remember the details
slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
sure… 9-8 min per job interview including welcoming the candidate, smalltalk, talking about the bullshit role you have to offer, listening to the candidates speech about why they are the best match for the bullshit role, asking critical questions about hypothetical job situations, pressing the candidate to buy a pyramid-scheme soda, saying goodbyes and escorting the candidate out.
sure that sounds realistic
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Somehow that’s still passive income lol
Quadhammer@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Sounds like mf work to me 😂
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
This has Nathan Fielder energy and it’s great
leftthegroup@lemmings.world 10 hours ago
The math doesn’t math.
Even assuming the drinks cost $3, even if all 60 bought one, that’s $180, not 2 or 3 hunnid.
And that’s not counting the work to do the interviews, as mentioned by others, or counting the work to do inventory and stick the machine, it even the cost of the drinks themselves.
Bro really doin all this work for what accounts to maybe $30 profit on a good day. Which would be ok for a tiny amount of work, but even if he does this at his regular job, is just a decent chunk extra, not a ton.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
It’s almost as if this was in fact a shitpost
leftthegroup@lemmings.world 10 hours ago
Tru
Almacca@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
Keep chasing it, buddy.
Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
$5 drinks? Is that the going rate in America?
Taldan@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Half the candidates is 25-30. It would need to be at least $10 per drink for that profit number, and that’s only if he’s getting free electricity and drinks
udon@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
50-60 interviews, not interviewees. Might be group interviews (but still bullshit)
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
No
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Yeah…this is the kind of person that the mob was most useful for back in the day. This was the kind of guy that got his knees broken for being a wise guy.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
loomy@lemy.lol 15 hours ago
damn. that’s slick.
MrShankles@reddthat.com 8 minutes ago
So about $10 a drink minimum (if we’re assuming $300/day gross income)?
If they can find 30 people per day to pay those prices, they need to quit their job and go full time into vending machine sales. They have a gift