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.
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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)
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!
I’ve got these emails before, almost exactly like this. I have a PhD, but sure, I guess I’m qualified for this too.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
There’s a reason my mouse has buttons dedicated to copy and paste.
You use a mouse? What a noob. Use vim and be enlightened
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?
Punching down on game Devs a bit lmao
I keep getting those sort of emails for jobs I have absolutely no qualifications for. Usually something in the finance or healthcare industry.
That is the maximum annual pay for a 0-60 h/week job.
They’re looking for 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.
Fuckingcapitalists
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.
