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.
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.
Everyone. Calm down… This is a joke account.
Here another one of his posts.
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.
Coca-Cola owns the machines, btw.
Guess who owns a key for the machine?!
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.
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…
That’s not passive… 60 interviews a day?
putting the “ass” in passive!
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 active income.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s nothing more Lemmy than someone taking an obvious joke seriously.
presumably, they get a salary for the work of doing the interviews
If they never hire anyone, then they are absolutely shit at their job.
If you hire someone you’ll be put of work so…
Could do 5 minute interviews
“Hi, buy a soda and get the fuck out, we’re not hiring you.”
Warning⛔: comment section filled with haters trying to keep a player down 😤
You forgot your /s.
Because it isn’t needed
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.
50 interviews a DAY??
More unbelievable is the implication that the average applicant spends $5-6 in the vending machine
Sir, this is the internet. Noone would lie about something like that here.
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?
I feel like I’m in the middle of Urlachs compression out discussion for Silicon Valley.
Big Thinkin
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.
