• @Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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    227 hours ago

    I’ll bet $50 this “CEO” has very few “employees.” Maybe just one. Which makes the screenshot message even sadder.

    • @Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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      OK yeah. He is a recent grad from Dartmouth and his company markets exclusively to college students and boasts $500,000 in sales.

      This might sound like a lot but it’s not enough to have many employees. He’s essentially a self-employed kid young man acting as the sole managing member of a disregarded entity and his “Pakistani employee” is likely a 1099 gig-worker, not a w2 employee.

      So, big grain of salt here. It’s a kid young man cosplaying as a big-shot CEO on social media. Maybe don’t luigi this one until he’s had the chance to actually be a colossal piece of shit.

      Edit: trying to learn not to call young adults kids, even when they totally look or act like one

      • @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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        51 hour ago

        Edit: trying to learn not to call young adults kids, even when they totally look or act like one

        Meh. Act’s like a kid, is likely a kid.

      • @Glytch@lemmy.world
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        42 hours ago

        Edit: trying to learn not to call young adults kids, even when they totally look or act like one

        This is admirable, I could do better about that myself.

      • Zagorath
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        26 hours ago

        likely a 1099 gig-worker, not a w2 employee

        I’m not familiar, but those both sound like visas for foreign workers? From the original post, I don’t think the developer is living in a western country. I think it’s outsourced to a Pakistani living in Pakistan.

        • @Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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          66 hours ago

          Just the tax forms. I should’ve said [sub-] contractor instead of 1099 sorry. Calling a contractor an employee publicly on social media is a hilarious way to owe back taxes but he has no experience with that yet. He just started and thinks he knows everything.

          • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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            19 minutes ago

            Fun story on that subject! When I was a kid my dad briefly worked for a online shopping company and when he was laid off he filed for unemployment. Upon filing for unemployment he learned he was misclassified as a independent contractor and became the center of a lawsuit between the DOL and his old employer. He ultimately got unemployment benefits and a severance btw