Submitted 8 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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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.
So about $10 a drink minimum (if we’re 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
Or just become a bartender.
putting the “ass” in passive!
I don’t know how people take shitposts seriously. Do we have way too many literal thinkers on Lemmy?
I think it’s a testament to on the nose satire and hitting at the heart of people’s anxieties about work.
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
The secret is to make awful doughnuts with da bomb spiked filling and offer them a compliment doughnut when they arrive. Water is $3, soda is $4, and milk/soy milk is $5.
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”!
Coca-Cola owns the machines, btw.
Guess who owns a key for the machine?!
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…
Guess who own Coca Cola —-> Passive Income /s
That’s not passive… 60 interviews a day?
This is a capitalistic nightmare, just getting people on interviews to give them false hope just to make money from them. This is a scam.
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.
That’s not passive income. That’s a lot of work.
Found the lazy hippie
Nobody wants to work anymore
How dare you so accurately clock me from one post.
presumably they get a salary and the 300 is extra just for suggesting it.
60 interviews, at just 15 minutes each, is 15 hours a day. Someone is putting in an astounding amount of work for just $300.
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 make $10 per vending customer.
We can safely ignore operating costs and sementics to conclude this is massive ragebait.
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.
Add complimentary saltines in the waiting room, and they might increase profit margins slightly
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.
This is TOTALY real and in no way, designed to infuriate people dumb enough to believe it.
If you look closer, it’s also off-brand drinks, meaning, he absolutely owns the machine, operates it, and restocks.
However, I do wonder the electric costs.
Looks like Monster Energy drinks to me.
Yes, that is a debate. AFAIK (from Japan), the vending machine providers give home owners a monthly rent for putting the machine on their property, but the home owners pay for the electricity costs. There was an article 1-2 years ago about how that model became basically a zero sum game for the home owners, because of rising electricity costs but I don’t remember the details
Keep chasing it, buddy.
Warning⛔: comment section filled with haters trying to keep a player down 😤
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.
It’s almost as if this was in fact a shitpost
Tru
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.”
Plus rent, electricity, etc…
At lowest estimates that’s a 17hr work day 🤣. 20 minute interviews with no delay in between and no lunch or bathroom breaks.
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.
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
Somehow that’s still passive income lol
Sounds like mf work to me 😂
$5 drinks? Is that the going rate in America?
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
50-60 interviews, not interviewees. Might be group interviews (but still bullshit)
No
damn. that’s slick.
$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.
Urban outdoorsman?
A gentleman of the streets.
Urban outdoorsman.
Yeah and that doesn’t count the time listing the fake jobs, or scheduling the interviews
That’s active income.
Hey! This gentleman won’t hit his keyword quota if you keep having that attitude!
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.
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
It’s deceptive advertising. I wouldn’t consider it actual advertising.
Now hire someone to do the interviews, then it’s passive income.
If he were smart, he would hire a full-time interviewee to ensure there’s always someone interviewing and buying drinks at a steady, predictable rate. Easiest money you’ll ever make.
Unless he’s now managing that person. Then it’s industry! Don’t mind us, we are just out here creating jobs.
This has Nathan Fielder energy and it’s great
50 interviews a DAY??
interviews meaning, spending time on the computer having a software/AI to weed applications that is.
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.
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?
More unbelievable is the implication that the average applicant spends $5-6 in the vending machine
More than $5-$6. He's making $300 income which implies the expenses are deducted. The actual price is $5-$6 + actual cost of whatever is in the vending machine
Sir, this is the internet. Noone would lie about something like that here.
HelluvaKick@lemmy.world 8 months 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.