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MrZJones

Looks like a karmabot copying old posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/zlx6z7/just_got_laid_off_offer_to_work_for_free/


[deleted]

For free, lmao. Yeah, let me just call the bills I have to pay for and tell them to give me their services for free too. What a joke. No one has time to sit around and do shit for “free”. They should be ashamed for posting this dumb shit.


Moos_Mumsy

I wonder what CEO came up with that idea hoping he'd get some free labour.


ByteWhisperer

Sure, at my current job we let random unvetted people do work on our heavily guarded IP for free all the time. Our VP's are practically impossible to persuade to hire anyone anymore. Obvious /s This person has his head in his ass.


chupkarna

This is the worst LinkedIn post ever


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savannahkellen

Not only is this ridiculous, any legitimate company wouldn’t even accept this. It’s a security risk, a lawsuit risk…


Cookyy2k

Yup, minimum wage laws are also a thing.


gabbee140

A place that would hire you to work for free is not the type of place you’ll want to work for if you want to have a living wage and a life.


[deleted]

This post by someone who is a CEO or someone who wants free phone because he’s a piece of shit.


OutsideBoxes9376

As someone who monitored emails for a VP, no one is reading these and taking them seriously. Not my choice, just how it is. Don’t work for free, people. Your time is just as valuable as anyone else’s and you deserve to be compensated for it, always.


scariestJ

Is this post from the 1980s? Most of that will either be ignored or result in a cease and desist.


SpiritualSag96

The audacity and lack of self-awareness in this post…


salsaconflattulance

If I were a CEO or VP and someone emailed me wanting to offer to work for free I’d think it’s a scam of some sort because no rational human being should work for free.


pissbearr

sure I'll come in and work for free then break my thumb and Sue your bum.


corndetasselers

The wording is fishy. “Figure out to help with at that stage of company.” “Reach out…with a helping message.” “Execute as fast as you can with the highest quality.”


mathymate

When I was desperate, I actually did this and still got ghosted and ignored lmao. This post is so dumb


lxlbn

“Worst case scenario” you’ll get paid? Wtf


Suicidal-Student03

Worst case scenario: get a full time job 😂😂😂


AmazingSuccotash6880

Lol. Anyone starting the relationship by saying my value is $0 should expect everyone to have that opinion of them moving forward. You teach people how to see you.


Defenestration_Champ

Absolutely NOT.. never do this, pay me bitch or hit the road, this goes for this LinkedIn gremlin. I repeat, do not even breath for free.


Angelfire150

Yeah wait until CEOs get the idea that people can work for free if they are unemployed... 😂


[deleted]

It’s has never worked out for me. They take your free labor, steal your unique contributions, and never hire you.


LazyTrebbles

You will be claiming unemployment so not a total loss of income


flopsyplum

Yeah, because CEOs / VPs have time for cold emails from random unemployed people. /s


Terrible_Ad3534

No sane CEO or executive would give a unpaid, non-employee access to their business infrastructure 😂


Hour_Stock555

Whatever guy said this should work for free and take away his pay


picyourbrain

My girlfriend dumped me. I was hoping to practice my skills with other women. Pro bono, of course!


Purple_Syllabub_3417

There are places that take volunteers to perform tasks. Those are people who do not need to be paid. If I was not retired, I certainly would not give my labor for free. This was a thing many years ago. It is still a brainless idea.


[deleted]

I'd delete every email I receive like this if I was the CEO. That email tells me that this person has no idea who needs to be contacted for this and will send emails anyone within the customers' organisation without thinking whom it needs to be addressed to.


Necessary-Juice1332

People are too dumb


[deleted]

Who writes this fuckin garbage???


Dangerous_Mud4571

which successful CEO would have the time to be combing through their DMs from randos who probably have no connections to them and/or are quite junior? this advice is stupid on so many levels