Fiverr's new recruiting ad promises to literally work you to death

Work the days away [clap clap]
Fraggles come and eat our hoooomes
Such a fruitless life [clap clap]
Down in fraggle rock

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I have done the software development equivalent of most of those roles. Now I have a coding job in a mid size company. I don’t have to do any of those things and I get paid every two weeks.

Freelancers are in competition with anybody who has an internet connection, which means most of India, China, Pakistan, etc. If you are not in one of those places you will find the pay underwhelming.

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Holy shit that’s awesome.

I’ll give you $4.99 worth of exposure!

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Pfft. $4.99 worth of exposure wouldn’t even get you arrested in most states.

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Ever watch the show show Testees? Very funny if you can handle very awkward situational scenes. For reference I couldn’t finish Curb Your Enthusiasm. It just made me too anxious. Testees had a bit less anxiety and bit more raunchy humor.

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I think everyone is missing the point. I mean, how much am I being paid to die? Isn’t that basically what insurance is doing anyway?

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It’s the same mentality as that Cadillac advert from a few years back that scoffed at Europeans for doing silly things like taking a vacation.

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There was an episode in which one of the Fraggles (Mokey, probably) had a crisis of conscience and declared that the Fraggles had to stop eating the Doozers’ homes and constructions, destroying all of their hard work. Instead of being relieved, the Doozers were confused – “are we doing something wrong? Why aren’t they eating our constructions? That’s why we build them!” and they freaked out, and built even more, and soon their constructions took over the whole place until the Fraggles & Doozers actually talked to each other.

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Oh, and you will type set the way God intended, sans ems…

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So it’s not that they think the working poor are second class humans, they think we’re Doozers?!?!? Terrific. I need to go have a talk with Madam Trash Heap. Maybe she can talk me down.

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That is actually a strange add to have for a company that promises you to pay 5$.

I’d have done it for $3.99 worth of exposure.

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I’d do it for exposure’s worth of exposure!

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Freeze it break it up with an ice pick eat the pieces obviously.

Late stage capitalism rears it’s ugly head.

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Beat me to it.

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I submitted photos to Popular Photography for the exposure.

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You changed the spelling error as I watched. It was weird-and fun-seeing the letters change before my wondering eyes. “Wait, wasn’t that misspelled…oh”.

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