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[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 7 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes 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

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

putting the "ass" in passive!

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 33 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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

Here another one of his posts.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 points 37 minutes ago (1 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 1 points 13 minutes 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"!

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Coca-Cola owns the machines, btw.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Guess who owns a key for the machine?!

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 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...

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 22 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 20 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.

[–] Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 61 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.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 points 34 minutes ago

Add complimentary saltines in the waiting room, and they might increase profit margins slightly

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 20 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Nobody wants to work anymore

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

How dare you so accurately clock me from one post.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 hours ago (3 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.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago

There's nothing more Lemmy than someone taking an obvious joke seriously.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If they never hire anyone, then they are absolutely shit at their job.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

If you hire someone you'll be put of work so...

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Could do 5 minute interviews

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

“Hi, buy a soda and get the fuck out, we’re not hiring you.”

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 40 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

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

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[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 21 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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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 38 points 11 hours 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."

[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

Plus rent, electricity, etc....

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[–] falidorn@lemmy.world 193 points 16 hours ago (4 children)
[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 61 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

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.

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[–] 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.

[–] slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 13 hours ago (3 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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[–] 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

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[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 80 points 16 hours ago (5 children)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

interviews meaning, spending time on the computer having a software/AI to weed applications that is.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 103 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

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

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[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 15 hours ago (2 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.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

Urban outdoorsman.

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