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[-] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago

You should put in exactly £5 of work.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

Open exactly one email. Don’t bother reading it; That would put you into overtime. But you can at least commit to opening the email and waiting for it to load before you clock out for the year.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The position is for a senior web engineer, so you either look at the company website and say "hmm" or you open a development app, write the HTML tag, maybe a head or css tag, then save the document.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I actually did the math on my current salary. So with converting it to USD and accounting for 2 weeks vacation and assuming I only work 40 hours a week. 5 pounds per hour is (approximately) one-tenth my hourly rate. So I would only be putting in 6 minutes of work for the entire length of the contract. Which, with my setup, amounts to sitting down, booting up, sipping coffee, and reading all of my slack notifications

Mind you I'm not a senior engineer and I'm also not paid in the top percentile

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Your hourly rate is my daily rate 😭 gg man

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I calculated with my salary, and it takes me longer to get to my desk.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

It actually says 5 pounds PER YEAR on the application.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Saving is extra.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Honestly if you can fill out their online questionaire in 15min you've already exceeded that much work.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

Don't spend it all on one thing :)

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

But what if all things cost £5?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Do you remember what happened when Mr Bean needed to buy only one shoe?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

halving fee: £2.50

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

"I said get something nice, not expensive"

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

Hey don't knock it, I'm pretty sure that's more than we pay Lemmy devs.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Actually, no. Still too little, but they do get slightly more.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

nobody wants to work anymore

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Hopefully they simply missplaced a zero.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Or like, at least 4 zeroes

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

500,000 GBP for a software engineer in London, UK at a recruitment company is very optimistic!

50,000 is still good!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Doesn't sound good...

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Just a zero? 50£ a year, final offer.

Or I guess 05£ a year.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Probably dumb like me and due the small amount somehow read it as hourly.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

£5/zero years. So £Infinity/year

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

50£ per year? Ill hire you lmao

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

£50/s there fixed that.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

"Put a one and two zeroes in front of that and you got yourself a deal!"

"How much did you get me?"

"One thousand pounds per year!"

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

And a shiny farthing at Christmas!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I wonder how much entry level get

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

small potato

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