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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

Almost certainly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Branch out and rent one of those rooms for $100/day, hire an interviewer for $100/day. Rinse and repeat ad nauseam until Trillionaire.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

50-60 a day? Assuming a 7.5 h workday, or 450 minutes, that's ~8 minutes per interview, pretty hard to keep up even for fake ones

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Its also not passive if you're working for it lmao

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

Doing 50 conversations in a day is a lot of work.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Also on the high end, 30 people buy a drink, meeting 300$ profit? What are the sodas $20 each?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 43 minutes ago

It's one soda, Michael. What could it cost? 20 dollars?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

$300 divided by 30 would be $10, but still, there's no fucking way anyone is going for that. The post is probably meant as satire, but they should have at least made it believable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah this math ain't mathin'.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I was building in for cost of renting the machine, stocking sodas what have you. lol. Even this empty headed catgirl can divide 300 by 10!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

empty headed catgirl can divide 300 by 10

You mean divide 300 by 30? 🫠

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

Gotta be group interviews. Had a few of them in my time. They're shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Even with group interviews... Let's take the supposed profit, 300$, and assume it's 100 pops at 3$ each, and for the sake of it let's say revenue = profit in this case. That's 100 purchases per day.

The post claims 50 interviewees per day, so 2 purchases per interviewees.

By groups of 10, that's 5 cohorts spending 1h each with the interviewer, during which every. Single. Person. Buys 2 drinks?

Humm!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

9000$ a month won't do shit

[–] [email protected] 69 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's a good joke

But half because the logic is so terrible. That's not passive income. It's retail

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Uses other people's money for both the product and service = "passive".

You're not thinking enough like a grifter to grasp the "big-picture" thinking at work here.

quotation marks = sacastic/fake in my usage, to be clear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You’re not thinking enough like a grifter

I mean, its obviously a shit post. But I imagine spending a whole day doing fake interviews - 50 a day, five days a week, for a month - to make around $6k gross, and then tell yourself you can scale this up passively.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

That's why you never stop at just one hustle!

Enough scale, and why would you keep your day-job? ... but you don't have to be smart-enough for that to buy-into and sell this lifestyle!

Congrats on pin-pointing why I leave my own true potential for grift and hustle on the table, save for moments of desperation where inaction would otherwise cost my family. That is to say, I sometimes borrow money from my mom, and that's plenty evil enough for me.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I mean how is that even remotely passive?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's "passive" because it uses his employers' time and money to generate additional off-the-books income for himself.

Same way many land-lords mortgage their rental properties close-to insolvency. Damn straigh, "passive"=using other people's money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

I doubt he's using company time if he does 50-60 interviews daily and doesn't hire anyone. No company would pay you to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 13 minutes ago)

Yep, also why the hell would they let him keep the vending machine money?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Your faith in corporate HR departments astounds me.

OTOH, don't count out reviews, promotions, discipline and other "interviews". Also meetings, so many meetings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 26 minutes ago

No faith in corporate HR, but concrete knowlege of how payroll works. No company is your friend, they are there to make as much money off of you as possible. Internal meetings are not external interviews, if you were hired to do a job interviewing for a positons and you went through 50-60 people a day with no results, they would replace you.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This feels like another one of those funny jokes that someone will come along and ruin by telling me he's serious.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This does not seem feasible and isn't passive income at all because he's actively doing stuff to make it happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

I could believe someone might call it "passive" in their head (they're not actively selling the thing, I suppose). Because having "passive income" seems to be a kind of status symbol for some people.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 hours ago

That's some expensive drinks too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

It’s a Japanese vending machine design, and it’s half embedded into the jutting corner of that wall.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Frankly, I wouldn't want to work in an office whose floorplan is only measured in 3 dimensions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Photoshopping to avoid tipping-off his employer is the closest thing to a smart decision on display here. Worthless if he's not using a pseudonym.

Nice catch!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

50-60 job interviews for a measly $300.

Sounds miserable. I’d rather flip burgers for McDonald’s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine making yourself miserable just to make $300

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I mean starting wages in fast food still like 15 an hour and it's a pretty miserable gig.

I'd rather do the interviews.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Hell, me from Slovakia makes 4.70 EUR per hour.

Though I don't know about the difference in local purchasing power.