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[–] falidorn@lemmy.world 204 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] falidorn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day 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 1 day 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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[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] officermike@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

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

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 14 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

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[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day 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 7 points 1 day 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 68 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 11 points 22 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 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

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[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 54 points 21 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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[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 7 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

You calm down, this person's tapped a market of people willing to pay $10+ per drink from a vending machine! I wanna know their secret, cause I'm switching careers if I can pull ~$78k annually from a single machine

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

Listen up! AI's gonna be a game changer. If you don't master passive prompting kids your vending machines good bye. Buy my book, "Passive Prompting"!

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Coca-Cola owns the machines, btw.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 20 hours ago

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

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[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t know how people take shitposts seriously. Do we have way too many literal thinkers on Lemmy?

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

I think it's a testament to on the nose satire and hitting at the heart of people's anxieties about work.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 39 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

Plus rent, electricity, etc....

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day 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 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 35 points 1 day ago

This has Nathan Fielder energy and it's great

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 25 points 16 hours ago

It's not really passive income, though. You have to get people in there and interview them. Even if you just spend 10 minutes per applicant, that's already 600 minutes, or 10 hours. So yes, this is a decent hourly wage, at least until word gets around about what you're doing, which it will, because what kind of job interview is done in 10 minutes? Not one where you actually have a chance.

And yes, I do realize this post is most likely a joke. Still fun to reply to, though.

[–] slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (1 children)

Somehow that's still passive income lol

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Sounds like mf work to me 😂

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[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day 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.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 23 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 23 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (10 children)

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

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

putting the "ass" in passive!

[–] leftthegroup@lemmings.world 12 points 1 day 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 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day 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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[–] HelluvaKick@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

Worked in vending for years. You ain't gonna profit off one machine in most cases. Unless you are in a prime location, buying 10 different cases of chips and then trying to sell the 750 or so bags before they expire requires several machines.

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 5 points 1 day ago

damn. that's slick.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
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