The fact that I’m wondering if it serious or a joke, is worrisome…
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Apply just to not pay and have the position terminated
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.
Just change your company name to be [actual company name] dba AI Prompt Engineer College, call this a class, done.
this will be a competitive prompt engineer salary in about two years time.
They finally found a way to make money off of AI
As always:
Seriously though… is this shit real?
Apparently this was some sort of job posting "experiment" from a couple of years ago.
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!
Is shit like this counted when they list the number of open job in the country?
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.
Knowing how backwards things are here, yeah probably
Yes, that's the point.
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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.
Bonus points for citing nonexistent court decisions.
That comes for free with using an LLM to make the argument.
Amateurs. Just call the weekly fee tuition, the position a research assistant, and the company a university and they are all set.
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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Getting really nervous when my office computer sign-on keeps prompting me to enter my credit card information.
Is this....
Violence?
No, but it's something similar. It's stupid.
Unless there's actual hidden value here (possible), it's more like a joke. Chickens rarely cross the road and they're not getting paid.
Sounds illegal.
Does whatever country this is posted from not have a minimum wage? Screenshot says USA, I thought they did have one?
Yes, but since volunteering is a thing, they may think they're in the clear. Doubt they are though.
Everytime I hear about the need to pay to do a job, my mind immediately jumps to pyramid scheme.
If you need to pay for something, it is a huge red flag.
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.
Someone posted above that this was from a couple years ago and done as a test to see who would respond to this type of ad sort of thing.
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I’m very been a Netflix employee for years.
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
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.
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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