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Toot

Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-03 at 00:29

This sure raises a lot of questions, beyond the eye-roll-inducing title. The hiring process for DOGE is apparently, "be a millionaire and call up some of your friends"? They are not an official government agency in any sense, but they are hiring already and spinning up fast? Are they paying people, or do you need to be independently wealthy? Who exactly is going to be making decisions and policies in this shadow organization?

https://vinay.sh/i-am-rich-and-have-no-idea-what-to-do-with-my-life/

'Within 2 minutes of talking to the final interviewer for DOGE, he asked me if I wanted to join. I said “yes”. Then he said “cool” and I was in multiple Signal groups. I was immediately acquainted with the software, HR, and legal teams and went from 0 to 100 taking meetings and getting shit done. This was the day before Thanksgiving.'

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-03 at 00:31

Hopefully everyone else will give up and move on to the next project after 4 weeks like this guy already did.

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-03 at 04:03

oh, right, this was from when they were recruiting "high IQ" people to work 80+ hours/week for no pay, and only accepting applications by DM from paid X accounts. What a joke! (Not that it is very amusing at this point)

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-03 at 04:04

I wonder how many "high IQ" individuals they found willing to work for free for more than a few weeks.

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Written by Sean Gillies on 2025-01-03 at 03:28

@kajord Dudes like them are why I don't tell anybody about my physics degree anymore.

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Written by Douglas on 2025-01-03 at 04:09

@kajord wow that dude comes across as an Incredible moron.

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Written by Nire Bryce on 2025-01-03 at 06:27

@kajord is it standard business practice for those things to be on Signal, or only when you're running a shadow organization

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-03 at 15:54

@NireBryce not to mention government practice. I'm betting that it never becomes an official agency so they're not subject to any oversight.

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