• @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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      62 hours 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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      53 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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      37 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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        77 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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          21 hour 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