cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/61853810
Here’s the original post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/61773916
I spent my remaining $1,000 to get a lawyer regarding this. It was worth doing, I think because this could have set me up for a long time in a $600/mo apartment and I’ve been homeless recently (this story is really fucking complicated and I’m not willing to get into it for any reason). The legal advice boiled down to essentially my lawyer contacting theirs and reviewing a potential contract. The verdict? “It doesn’t hold water and there’s likely no real money there. They are trying to exploit you.” - which was something I thought may be happening anyway. If it smells like shit… etc.
So, if you receive this an offer like this - run. I don’t want to list the company name for potential doxxing reasons because their hiring pool is very limited. Down side is that I’m very broke now. It was worth a shot, I guess.
I’m also now in a really bad position because I just drained my bank account for a lawyer in the hopes of potentially being set up for years and the odd chance of kicking off a revolution via potentially hundreds of thousands of lost US jobs.
I’m going to be homeless again in a few weeks, but at least this time I have a car. If mods are ok with it, I’d like to link my webcomic (and therein is a support link, though it’s kind of buried).
Fuck AI.
You hired a lawyer, for 1k, to try and figure out if a job is real?
That lawyer is the real asshole for not sending you away. Your entire series of posts read like someone slightly manic and completely lost in AI propaganda.
I mean this with every ounce of sincerity. Just chat with a professional about this and how your proceeding.
I do need help in that regard, there is no question. Believe it or not, I am a lot better than I was a year ago. I am on meds, but that only does so much. My brain is fairly broken. I have crashed out hard on lemmy before, since I didn’t have meds. Maybe you’re right. But the reality is that when you absolutely have to work on a contract basis, lawyers should be the first thing that happens. Am I wrong there?