Well... it's not an unpaid internship, we're just not splitting hairs on who's getting paid.
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Just change your company name to be [actual company name] dba AI Prompt Engineer College, call this a class, done.
this will be a competitive prompt engineer salary in about two years time.
Seriously though… is this shit real?
Apparently this was some sort of job posting "experiment" from a couple of years ago.
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!
They finally found a way to make money off of AI
Amateurs. Just call the weekly fee tuition, the position a research assistant, and the company a university and they are all set.
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.
Bonus points for citing nonexistent court decisions.
That comes for free with using an LLM to make the argument.
I’m very been a Netflix employee for years.
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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Is this....
Violence?
Unless there's actual hidden value here (possible), it's more like a joke. Chickens rarely cross the road and they're not getting paid.
No, but it's something similar. It's stupid.
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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Getting really nervous when my office computer sign-on keeps prompting me to enter my credit card information.
Please report for organ harvesting on Thursday at nine.
Scheduling conflict. Can we do chloroform at lunch instead?
Sorry, your insurance doesn't cover that, so it would have to be out of pocket.
Bring a cashier's check for $7,400 to lunch and we'll take care of the rest! ❤️
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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
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
Sounds illegal.
Everytime I hear about the need to pay to do a job, my mind immediately jumps to pyramid scheme.
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.
Just put me through 4 years of a paid training position instead of University already. Finding a job has been shit because of lack of experience.
Its also shit with experience. Just apply to literally everything and hope something in the salary range you want reaches out.
Besides the obvious ripoff, is there some sort of fraudulent or tax reason why they would make the employee pay for it?
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Link so I can apply?
yeah itd be a shame if they got flooded with bs applications
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