1d ago

Sacrifices have to be made for profit

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I’ll bet $50 this “CEO” has very few “employees.” Maybe just one. Which makes the screenshot message even sadder.
- 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
  
  Receiving a message like that from an employee and responding with anything other than encouragement to do whatever they need to keep themselves safe makes you a colossal piece of shit.
  
  It is common for children to lack global perspective and we don’t smother them in their cribs. It is common for that immaturity to persist into adulthood and we still don’t murder those people for their naïveté. It takes some people longer to learn their lessons. Killing them before they’ve learned them is an unforgivable mistake.
  It’s easily comparable to the recent bloodlust among users like you. I could easily argue that you are broken in the head and a danger to society, or that your advocacy of unjust vigilante killings makes you a stochastic terrorist deserving a violent death. I could go about online suggesting this to anyone who will listen in the hopes that someone will take matters into their own hands.
  But I don’t, because that would be unfair, unjust, and unkind. If you want blood on your hands so badly, join the military. It would at least teach you the personal consequences of taking a life, and you might not be in such a rush to deal out death and judgement.
  
  I didn't say anything about doing violence to him. I just said he was a piece of shit.
  
  Then I’ll rephrase. But there are a lot of comments in this thread suggesting we murder him, which would not be a punishment fitting the crime.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  They are tax forms, a W2 is an employee (basically) and a 1099 (usually -NEC) is a contractor.
  More info about the differences on irs.gov
  
  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
  
  Yeah it’s a fairly common exploit that you can’t really get away with long term because of stuff like this. If your employee still thinks they’re an employee, they will assume they have the rights of an employee, and the DOL and IRS might be inclined to agree.
  International gig workers are generally safe from misclassification. The companies they work through usually handle most of the paperwork and give you a subcontractor agreement. As far as the government is concerned they’re the same category as temps, which is fine, but obviously you still should avoid calling them “employee” on a public social media page just to make your company sound more successful than it is.
  
  Those are just tax code for employee/self employed contractor

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