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[–] 215 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago* (3 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 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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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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

    Here another one of his posts.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Coca-Cola owns the machines, btw.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Guess who owns a key for the machine?!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Unless you have an older machine, probably the Coke guy.

    Coke wants to control what drinks are in the machine and what percentage of the take Coke gets, so they refill the machines.

    We used to have an older machine on an old contract, and since we didn't really care about the income from it we let Coke swap it for a new one they'd service.

    About 2 months later, they said we weren't selling enough drinks and took the new machine away.

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  • [–] 84 points 1 year ago (9 children)
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    More unbelievable is the implication that the average applicant spends $5-6 in the vending machine

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago

    This has Nathan Fielder energy and it's great

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    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

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (3 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."

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    presumably they get a salary and the 300 is extra just for suggesting it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    60 interviews, at just 15 minutes each, is 15 hours a day. Someone is putting in an astounding amount of work for just $300.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    presumably, they get a salary for the work of doing the interviews

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Warning⛔: comment section filled with haters trying to keep a player down 😤

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago*

    Keep chasing it, buddy.

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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Big Thinkin

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    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.

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