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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

As a bit of a programmer, they're telling me they want a marketplace where instead of paying proactively for my time and advice, they come to me only after everything is 100% on fire?

Let's do this.

I assure my prices will be quite reasonable, for the situation.

Incidentally, what's everyone's favorite supercar?

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

Crassus as a Service

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Turkey has a big opportunity here to corner the market for non-mechanical turks

[–] vivi@slrpnk.net 36 points 2 months ago

as a senior, i think i would have to be given 5x pay before i would remotely consider this

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago

i hope you get hazard pay for psychic damage

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago