From b3d341d9543e469ce464d45dfb84b3afdf1e4139 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xe Iaso Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 21:37:48 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] scamcoin jobs Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso --- blog/scamcoin-jobs-2022-02-01.markdown | 153 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 153 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/scamcoin-jobs-2022-02-01.markdown diff --git a/blog/scamcoin-jobs-2022-02-01.markdown b/blog/scamcoin-jobs-2022-02-01.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5e77ecb --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/scamcoin-jobs-2022-02-01.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,153 @@ +--- +title: How To Approach Me With Scamcoin Jobs +date: 2022-02-01 +author: Heartmender +tags: + - bitcoin + - ethereum + - nft + - cryptocurrency +--- + +[Don't. Seriously don't. I have net negative interest in them and will actively +waste your time to avoid you scamming some sorry sucker out of their sanity and +hope for the future. The only blockchain I'm excited to work with is Git. Do not +try to convince me that scamcoin is the next coming of sliced bread. Go buy +furry art from actual artists instead of white nationalist +monkeys.](conversation://Cadey/coffee) + +As a side effect of my blog's apparent popularity, I get a lot of people from +many different backgrounds contacting me asking me if I want to work with them +or for their company. These are almost always turned down, but recently I had an +interaction with someone trying to shill a job at me that was so transparently +bad that I feel I should sub-blog them. + +[Sub-blogging? Is that like sub-tweeting but in +longform?](conversation://Mara/hmm) + +[Yes, it's a thing. Several posts on this site are sub-blogging examples. Won't +tell which ones.](conversation://Cadey/coffee) + +Usually you can tell what way these things are going to go by the subject line. +Here's the subject line that I got yesterday: + +> Blockchain company I am applying to + +[Oh boy.](conversation://Cadey/coffee) + +And here's the body ([emphasis] mine): + +> I am applying to work for [scammers] on his blockchain projects and came +> across your projects and ideas and you are someone I would want to work with, +> thus I am telling you about this job I am applying for. Here is the original +> job post tweet: [LINK EXPUNGED] with the corrected description below. + +[Is this a recruiter?](conversation://Numa/delet) + +> I like that you have a variety of projects in a variety of languages + +[Totally reads like a recruiter.](conversation://Numa/delet) + +> Are you good at @golang? Want to make $175,000 a year? Speak good English? I +> want to hire you. Remote. Blockchain software all sucks. We're making it suck +> less. [We want to fork the Go Ethereum server], porting this to [buzzword] +> after mainnet launch. Direct message me [on Telegram] or email me (I hate +> email) at [LINK EXPUNGED] I'll give you a 15 minute test to filter out the +> noobs. Pulsechain mainnet MVP: testnet. [LINK EXPUNGED] working with +> [incomprehensible]. bridges: ETH, large ERC20s. Uniswap v2 fronted for +> [buzzword]. Block explorer. Post MVP: trading: pancakeswap fork, insanely +> important, LP rewards for ERC20/PRC20 pairs. Coin ranking site for PRC20s. +> Wallet: replace metamask (electron app for cross platform). Uniswap but across +> chains. More bridges: to start, then btc, bnb, bch, in that order. Network: +> pulsechain. Uniswap v3 front end. Stablecoin from my exchange I'm making. +> Aggregator: replace [waste of human effort] market orders and limit orders. +> Margin trading. [why does that exist] (we already have hexnado already can +> modify). +> +> Look forward to hearing from you and possibly working with you. +> +> Thank You, +> +> [NAME EXPUNGED] + +[What the hell is that? That's a bunch of "sentences" that seemingly have no real +understandable quality to them. It reads like an AI took every scamcoin tweet +and SEO blog and threw it in a blender with GPT-3 and laundry sauce, then +someone prompted it with "Blockchain software all sucks. We're making it suck +less." and hoped it made sense.](conversation://Numa/delet) + +[Maybe this person isn't a native English speaker, we should at least be +charitable as to what they're saying in order to avoid pissing people +off. Not like we want to take this job anyways...](conversation://Mara/happy) + +[I'm with the raging side here. This is hardly understandable, even more since I +only know enough about scamcoin to know I never want to associate with it. This +is transparently someone trying to drum up hype in a product that doesn't exist +yet by claiming to be a peer so that it looks like they're more +trustable.](conversation://Cadey/coffee) + +[Yeah, this is so transparently an advertisement. Who the hell contacts someone +out of the blue letting them know about a job _they applied for_ without there +being some kind of financial motivation for the person doing the +contact? Maybe we could work a reading comprehension test in there too for shits +and giggles!](conversation://Numa/delet) + +> Hello, +> +> My minimum salary for blockchain related projects is 600,000 USD per +> year payable in Automated Clearing House amounts twice monthly (your +> payroll system probably supports this already). I do not care about +> being paid in cryptocurrency. I prefer USA fiat currency. Since you +> said you want to hire me, what should I do to move forward with this? +> +> Thanks and be well, + +[Why add that thing about being paid in US dollars?](conversation://Mara/hmm) + +[If you don't add that the scamcoin people will offer to pay you exclusively in +scamcoin!](conversation://Numa/delet) + +[Why would they do that? Shouldn't a job you apply to pay you in real +money?](conversation://Mara/wat) + +[A sucker's born every minute. Plus it's trivial for them to spin up a billion +memecoins out of nothing in a project this early in the game despite what they +claim about being able to print money out of nowhere being impossible in +scamcoin spaces.](conversation://Numa/delet) + +[I see.](conversation://Mara/hmm) + +[SEND!](conversation://Numa/delet) + +Some time later: + +[lol we got a reply:](conversation://Numa/delet) + +> Wow, you didn't peruse what I wrote, I am a software engineer who is applying +> for the same position I wrote to you about. I don't work for [scam artist] or +> [proper noun], yet. Thanks for replying though + +[Sure you are. That makes sense that you as a software engineer applying for +jobs would try to drum up hype in a company you don't even work for yet. THAT +MAKES SENSE!!!](conversation://Numa/delet) + +[Didn't we do that with Tailscale though, even if just a +little?](conversation://Mara/hmm) + +[Fair, but that was different, Tailscale actually has a product that isn't +related to making people think they own a jpeg with funny money that you used to +be able to use to buy drugs with.

This looks like a great place to +bring out the idiot fee. Draft ho!](conversation://Cadey/coffee) + +> Ah, in that case my fee is 1.2 million dollars per year in salary. +> Thank you for understanding. + +There was no reply. + +[No fun, this could have been even more amusing!](conversation://Numa/delet) + +[If you are going to try to shill a scamcoin job _to a writer_, please at least +put some effort into the wording you use. So many people have been trained to +assume that dodgy English = blatant scam.

Also I am happy with +my current job, so you won't really be able to get me over +anyways.](conversation://Cadey/coffee)