Literally paying to work
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The fact that I’m wondering if it serious or a joke, is worrisome…
It's definitely a joke or some sort of weird art statement, the only thing that bothers me is that I once got my decade-old account banned from LinkedIn for posting a job that they decided was discriminatory because it had a language requirement, and yet somehow this has passed their filters?
Apply just to not pay and have the position terminated
The successful candidate
They finally found a way to make money off of AI
As always:
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.
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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this will be a competitive prompt engineer salary in about two years time.
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.
Also bonus times for writing those prompts on company time.
Bonus points for citing nonexistent court decisions.
That comes for free with using an LLM to make the argument.
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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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!
$500 per week - 500x48=24k with 4 weeks of thankfully "unpaid" vacation
United States
4 weeks of vacation
Lol
If the employee “works” every day of the year they earn -$26000
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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!
Seriously though… is this shit real?
Apparently this was some sort of job posting "experiment" from a couple of years ago.
Amateurs. Just call the weekly fee tuition, the position a research assistant, and the company a university and they are all set.
Just change your company name to be [actual company name] dba AI Prompt Engineer College, call this a class, done.
Getting really nervous when my office computer sign-on keeps prompting me to enter my credit card information.
Sounds illegal.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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
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