• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    99% sure this is a parody, mainly because she only mentions her childrens’ ages in the context of a bachelor’s degree not being enough, but it troubles me that I can’t say I’m 100% sure.

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      An article on the subject

      Yesterday I found an incredibly convincing fake of a ragepost (on Lemmy - couldn’t find it again so sourced it from Facebook). Reverse analyzing the details revealed that the selfies were modified to increase duckface, a pile of cigarettes were added for the narrative, and an accompanying news report screenshot was expertly modified using two different articles and changing many details. I can’t in good faith believe any social media meme after this:


      All the selfie captions are fake.

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        Ooof I normally think I’m good at catching these, but took the bait on this story.

        The only thing that seemed slightly off when skimming was her use of a cafe style/glass ashtray on the centre console, which would be completely impractical for someone who is “always smoking in the car”.

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        I think the post you saw on Lemmy must have gotten removed or deleted. This comment I found seems to be debunking the same post but the link button leads to a blank page. I do wish there was an archive of removed/deleted Fediverse content for reference purposes (with a reasonable level of censorship, such as omitting illegal content and personally identifying information). I think I saw another post on Lemmy of the same misinfo less recently than a day or two ago but I couldn’t find that post.

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          Oh I actually fell for the original post, I wonder how many more didn’t know it was fake.

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            Does there exist means to identify which deleted/removed post the comment in the screenshot was from or means to view that post as it was prior to its deletion/removal?

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        dammit i ate the onion, now i have to go tell the friends i told.

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      It reads like a combination of multiple people’s ridiculous individual requirements wrapped into one listing. Like one person said no spare room, someone else said to bring educational stuff, another is only paying $18 a day, and so on.

      So definitely a parody, but I would bet each individual thing is based on someone and maybe slightly exaggerated.

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      I get the same feeling on this one. I’ve seen serious ones wanting a degree in early childhood development or similar and offer babysitter rates, but I think they went slightly too far on this for it to be taken seriously.

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    "Hi, please come and parent for us for below minimum wage, and somehow also manage to feed and house yourself.

    No, we won’t help you, just be independently wealthy but not too wealthy or we’ll think you’re better than us.

    Thanks!"

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    This absolutely cannot be real. Masters Degree plus apparently teaching experience plus materials and food for about 5 (probably 8-10) hours a day. For under $20/day. It’s either fake or she never found anyone, and is blacklisted from the nanny community.

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    I recall working with a guy who couldn’t understand why his daughter was paying so much for child care. After probing further, he said he was able to hire a retired widowed school teacher and pay her $100/week as she was living very comfortable off hers and her deceased husband’s pension.

    They also provided her with food, a room, and a she was a family friend.

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    Lmao even 18$/h would be insane. The rest of it is just high standards, the 18 bucks a day is the big issue here.

    You want all those things and true excellence? That’ll be $1,800 a day.

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        It’s very common for teachers to have masters degrees to even teach children, so it isn’t totally ridiculous. And, if the person is looking moreso for a governess or a lifelong nanny or whatever (think: Mary Poppins), they end up being the children’s parent, teacher, friend, pe instructor, etc.

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            Imagine you have a master’s degree in education.

            Now, would you rather teach room-fulls of shitty kids, all day, five days a week, and making lesson plans, for like $30/h with benefits and you’re w2? Or a few shitty rich kids all day, everyday, until they’re all 18, with no benefits, and you’re 1099 ic - but you get to bill for $150/h?

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    $18 dollars a day for masters degree, snacks and material not included. lol this is true definition of unhinged.

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      I’m betting they are. Knew a few international students who nannied for a bit, crazy unhinged parents, mostly felt like they got a nanny just to punch down. Masters degree to watch your mouth breather? Fuck off.

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        It has to be. It sounds like it’s making fun of people who have these exact sorts of exacting requirements.

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      Mean I assume if the hiring team could offer a good salary that’d be part of the offer, so they didn’t have to deal with so many applicants.

      Cause not like the team hiring has a choice on what they write, just what they deal with. Everyone is a cog except the person that does sweet fuck all except set up the operation. Which shouldn’t count for nearly as much as it does.

      Mean if the hiring team is pocketing a bonus then fuck them too.

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      What… an odd accusation. Maybe it’s different where you are, but I’ve never worked for a company where I had much say in hiring, except if it was an internal hire and someone I knew applied and someone asked me how that person was. I still couldn’t make any choices on requirements and my say only went as far as my boss decided it did, and that was just once in about 25 years of work.

      Most of the time we either keep begging for more headcount and hear just maybes, or we get introduced to the new hire for a position we didn’t know was open.

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          The part where you implied many of us are? You said part of teams, so I took that to mean you meant part of teams that get new hires. If you meant only HR or recruiting people, then I don’t understand why your wording suggests it’s a significant portion of the people reading the post.

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              No, what would make you think I am? I do work in customer service (MSP, customer contact etc) so I tend to speak in a way that is trying to be less inflammatory, but I dunno why that would make you think I’m a bot. I just answered your question.

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                  Yeah, neurodivergents do that from time to time. Mine isn’t too bad usually with misunderstanding hyperbole and such, but I do have to still ask sometimes and occasionally miss jokes.

                  Edit I also thought you meant a bot instead of an actual robot…

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    Everyone’s railing against “the snacks” bit, but no one is talking about the “we do not keep anything like this at home”

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    Lost me on the snacks. No one this douchey would let your poor ass bring in Walmart snacks.

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    I wish i could explain this away as a parody, but i nannied for a family who paid me 12 bucks an hour to nanny with “light housekeeping” that turned out to be caring for livestock, gardening, picking up dog shit, peeling wallpaper off their walls, etc. All while watching their 5 kids all under the age of 6 lol. I quit after they started doing “biweekly evaluations”