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[–] falidorn@lemmy.world 193 points 16 hours ago (3 children)
[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 61 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Now hire someone to do the interviews, then it's passive income.

[–] falidorn@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Unless he’s now managing that person. Then it’s industry! Don’t mind us, we are just out here creating jobs.

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[–] renzev@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I guess if he's getting paid to do the interviews then it's technically passive... wait no, then the whole interviewer thing would just count as advertising for his vending machine business

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[–] ReiRose@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

It'd be better if they had multiple rooms, multiple vending machines and multiple interviewers. Pay the interviewers to do the work and take the passive income.

But also this is horrible noone should do this.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 80 points 16 hours ago (3 children)
[–] officermike@lemmy.world 103 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

More unbelievable is the implication that the average applicant spends $5-6 in the vending machine

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 35 points 16 hours ago

Sir, this is the internet. Noone would lie about something like that here.

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Even more unbelievable is that anyone would spend $10-$12 on one vending machine drink in the middle of a ten minute interview.

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 5 points 13 hours ago

Might be why he only manages to persuade half of them.

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[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

50 interviews in 8 hours is about 10 minutes per interview, and that's back to back, no breaks, no lunch, no one being late, etc.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Not that I believe this is real in any way. But there are ten chairs at that table. His interview could be like those predatory knife MLMs where they pack the room full of idiots to find the one apex idiot.

Schedule:

Ten at a time. Ten minutes each.

Even if you space them out to the top of the hour you have time for a long lunch where you can commend yourself about being a drain on your species while staring at yourself in the bathroom mirror of a cracker barrel where you are scoping out some poor underage girl to molest verbally.

Wait... What were we talking about?

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[–] Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 62 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Am I confused on why people are overcomplicating the math and adding assumptions to a clear given.

  • 60 applications a day.

  • Half of them (30) buy something.

  • Makes 300 per day.

  • They must make $10 per vending customer.

We can safely ignore operating costs and sementics to conclude this is massive ragebait.

[–] udon@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Agree with the ragebait, but (theoretically) they might interview more than one person at a time. He talks about 50-60 interviews a day, so with that seat layout, we have a max of 8*60=480 interviewees (assuming the interviewer is also sitting). That would be 240 drinks per day.

But it's going to be quite busy. Let's say he works 12 hours = 5 interviews/hour = 12 minutes per interview = 1.5 minutes per interviewee. That is not accounting for the time everyone needs to settle in and sit down/get up and out again; the time for him to casually get people to use their very limited time to buy a drink instead of being interviewed somehow (?) Also not accounting for the work involved in inviting and scheduling people, refilling the machine, costs of drinks, office space etc. And the soul draining work of funneling 480 people per day through a stupid fake interview, repeat the same thing every 12 minutes, just to get them to buy a drink instead of doing something useful.

What a nightmare. In this scenario, he is really the person to feel bad for. Imagine a life like that 😅

And apart from that: The more logical setup would be to turn off the air condition in the waiting area and put the vending machine there.

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[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

$37.50 an hour to talk to a minimum of 6 strangers that want something from me and think I can deliver it for them?

I’d rather be an urban outdoorsman.

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

Yeah and that doesn't count the time listing the fake jobs, or scheduling the interviews

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 38 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

That's not "Passive" income, if you have to attract 50-60 people per day, pretend to interview them, while subliminally encouraging them to use the vending machine. That's called a full-time job, and probably illegal, too.

And that isn't $300/day profit, he has to pay for those items in his machine. The profit is probably no more than 50%, so $150/day. For an 8 hour day, that's $18.75 an hour. That's a lot of work for not that much money. It certainly isn't "Passive."

[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

Plus rent, electricity, etc....

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

At lowest estimates that’s a 17hr work day 🤣. 20 minute interviews with no delay in between and no lunch or bathroom breaks.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 8 hours ago

If you're going to be self-employed, at least be a good boss to yourself. It doesn't make sense to treat yourself like the worst boss you've ever had.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 35 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Everyone. Calm down... This is a joke account.

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Here another one of his posts.

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Coca-Cola owns the machines, btw.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago

Guess who own Coca Cola —-> Passive Income /s

[–] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

I used to run an auto service center with a Coke machine in the waiting room. Once a month I would get a commission check in the mail from Coca-Cola for usually about $50 or $60. We averaged about 40 cars a day through that place so the machine got a lot of business...

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[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 35 points 16 hours ago

This has Nathan Fielder energy and it's great

[–] slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

sure... 9-8 min per job interview including welcoming the candidate, smalltalk, talking about the bullshit role you have to offer, listening to the candidates speech about why they are the best match for the bullshit role, asking critical questions about hypothetical job situations, pressing the candidate to buy a pyramid-scheme soda, saying goodbyes and escorting the candidate out.

sure that sounds realistic

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Somehow that's still passive income lol

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Sounds like mf work to me 😂

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[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 22 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (4 children)

This is TOTALY real and in no way, designed to infuriate people dumb enough to believe it.

For the record:

A soda vending machine's revenue varies significantly based on location and product pricing, but a rough estimate for average daily revenue is $5. Monthly, this could range from $150 to $1,500, with high-traffic locations potentially earning up to $100 per day. However, profit margins depend on product costs and operating expenses.”

And that’s if he owns it outright.

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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 22 points 5 hours ago

That's not passive... 60 interviews a day?

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 21 points 7 hours ago

Put out a bowl of extra salty peanuts and crank up the heat. Open a small bar in the corner serving margaritas, mojitos, pina coladas, etc... Sit back and watch the passive income roll in.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 20 points 9 hours ago (9 children)

That’s not passive income. That’s a lot of work.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

putting the "ass" in passive!

[–] leftthegroup@lemmings.world 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The math doesn't math.

Even assuming the drinks cost $3, even if all 60 bought one, that's $180, not 2 or 3 hunnid.

And that's not counting the work to do the interviews, as mentioned by others, or counting the work to do inventory and stick the machine, it even the cost of the drinks themselves.

Bro really doin all this work for what accounts to maybe $30 profit on a good day. Which would be ok for a tiny amount of work, but even if he does this at his regular job, is just a decent chunk extra, not a ton.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It’s almost as if this was in fact a shitpost

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Keep chasing it, buddy.

I can't tell if this is satire or linkedin lunatics, and that's the joy of lemmy shitpost.

[–] Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

$5 drinks? Is that the going rate in America?

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Half the candidates is 25-30. It would need to be at least $10 per drink for that profit number, and that's only if he's getting free electricity and drinks

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[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

So about $10 a drink minimum? (assuming $300/day gross income)

If they can find 30 people per day to pay those prices, they need to quit their job and go full time into vending machine sales. They have a gift

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 5 points 16 hours ago

damn. that's slick.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago
[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago

Yeah....this is the kind of person that the mob was most useful for back in the day. This was the kind of guy that got his knees broken for being a wise guy.

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