• ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    5 hours ago

    It’s a “meh” comic, but a good reminder that there are LOT of job-offer scams out there, and they’re very sophisticated.

    They will call you and talk to you, they will set you up for an interview, they will “transfer” you to different people, they will have you fill out an application or test and finally they will bring you into a zoom call or other kind of tele-meeting for “onboarding” and at that time they will ask you to pay for “some small costs” of having certain equipment sent to you or application/security clearance fees, and they claim they will refund it from your first paycheck.

    The moment any employer asks for payment for ANYTHING up-front, it is a scam. Every time. Run away, call consumer protection never mind they scrapped that, call authorities, doesn’t matter, just hang up or get away asap.

    • Do not give any personal information to any company you haven’t checked out thoroughly.

    • If they require any payments for anything before paying you, it’s a scam. Worth repeating because the number of people who fall for this is insane.

    • If the job seems too good to be true, if the application process is stupid-simple, it is probably a scam.

    • If the people who reached out to you won’t give you contact info other than themselves, it may be a scam.

    • If the job offer seems too good to be true, if the pay is far more than you expected or asked for, if the work is so easy anyone could do it, it’s probably a scam.

    • Check the company profile and call their main number. Many times the scammers use an existing company in another country or a defunct company as cover. If they’re an active company, you can often confirm with them through the main number if the offer is real or not, but be warned there are even scammers who make fake business websites.

    • The people contacting you may speak perfect english, have no accents, and be confident and professional sounding. Do not trust stereotypes to be an accurate warning against foreign scams.

  • PDFuego@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 hours ago

    That’d be a nice change. Mine’s full of fake hackers who claim to have gotten into my devices with a password I haven’t used for over a decade threatening to send all of my contacts videos of me wanking.

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      4·
      5 hours ago

      “Mom? Someone’s gonna send you those videos of me wanking again!”

      “Okay dear.”

  • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    111·
    7 hours ago

    If HR people unionized, I might just toss them in the same category as police unions. They are mobilized against the working class, and we don’t need to show solidarity with them.

  • loomy@lemy.lol
    231·
    2 hours ago

    she went under the desk in the second panel

    edit: holy down votes batman; I thought Lemmy was a sex positive place.

    Especially if this is some kind of husband/wife type of relationship.

    I didn’t realize the comicstrips was such a serious place. 🤷

      • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        315·
        8 hours ago

        There’s no indication where she went, so it’s reaally completely up to the reader to decide where she goes in their interpretation.

        • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          9·
          7 hours ago

          You can extrapolate likely scenarios based on what’s going on in the first panel. It’s extremely unlikely that she would do that while carrying a baby in the time it takes him to answer a question.

          • loomy@lemy.lol
            1·
            2 hours ago

            I mean it looks like they have a baby.

            Men and woman have a way of producing babies.

          • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            17·
            6 hours ago

            But again, it is actually completely untold by the artist, so people can construct whatever the hell they like with it…The artist holds no right or control to what people get from their works, if this persons makes the construct that she’s under the table in the last panel, then that’s no less correct than what you might get from it, regardless of the obvious inferences you mention.

            • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              5·
              5 hours ago

              Sure, you can say whatever you want happened, like she turned into a dragon. But this is an established world in a comic with established characters, which means there are things that are likely or not likely to happen. And of course there’s the added ick factor of pointlessly sexualizing one of the characters.