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[–] [email protected] 404 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They finally found a way to make money off of AI

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 239 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Is shit like this counted when they list the number of open job in the country?

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago

Knowing how backwards things are here, yeah probably

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

Yes, that's the point.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"But you're not considering how valuable this experience will be!"

[–] ulterno 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So much to evade that gap in the resume

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Do not let this person split up a bill for your restaurant party, folks

(I'm only joking, but I think you did the math the wrong way, $500x12=$6k)

Edit: yep.I'm an idiot, thanks folks, my poor example will stand as a testament to others, don't shame yourself publicly like this and pay attention in school!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

$500 per week - 500x48=24k with 4 weeks of thankfully "unpaid" vacation

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

United States

4 weeks of vacation

Lol

If the employee “works” every day of the year they earn -$26000

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

How many weeks are there in a year?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Well I planned for 12 apparently, so I guess I demand a lot of vacation time. I call it the Job Creator schedule.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's per week.

500 x 4 = 2000/month

2000 x 12 = 24k

By all means i'd love to split restaurant bills with you ;)

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

Bonus points for citing nonexistent court decisions.

That comes for free with using an LLM to make the argument.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Getting really nervous when my office computer sign-on keeps prompting me to enter my credit card information.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Please report for organ harvesting on Thursday at nine.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Scheduling conflict. Can we do chloroform at lunch instead?

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago

Amateurs. Just call the weekly fee tuition, the position a research assistant, and the company a university and they are all set.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month 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!

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everytime I hear about the need to pay to do a job, my mind immediately jumps to pyramid scheme.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seriously though… is this shit real?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

Apparently this was some sort of job posting "experiment" from a couple of years ago.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago

this will be a competitive prompt engineer salary in about two years time.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago

Apply just to not pay and have the position terminated

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The fact that I’m wondering if it serious or a joke, is worrisome…

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

Well... it's not an unpaid internship, we're just not splitting hairs on who's getting paid.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

That people would be so excited to "get their foot in the door of th prompt engineering job market" that theyd pay for the opportunity

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

No, but it's something similar. It's stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Just change your company name to be [actual company name] dba AI Prompt Engineer College, call this a class, done.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Literally paying to work

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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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[–] kn0wmad1c 11 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

big brain move

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I’m very been a Netflix employee for years.

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