Mine: Once had a meeting with a guy that wanted to be a Starlink distributor in a developing country. His first time in country, had just arrived like 24 hours before. Knew nothing and no one. No idea why he wanted to talk to me, but, whatever…

Wanted to have his “business partner” in on the meeting, and called some douche that talked for 5 solid minutes about how he could see the Cape Kennedy launch tower from his window and whatever else about how amazing he was and so tied in to Elon and all this BS. Called long distance on a real phone line to the States. Not WhatsApp, not even a VOIP or Wifi calling call. I watched him dial +1… he had a local SIM.

Turns out neither of them even knew which ministry they would need to start with to get a permit for satellite internet service. They just wanted to sell dishies in country and had no idea how to even start a business locally. Didn’t look at a single thing online before coming out. They didn’t even know about local content policies that effectively meant they needed a local business to sponsor them. I sat and searched online with the guy and showed him everything they needed to see, which was on 1 website.

This was before COVID, and the country only got Starlink 2 years ago.

  • Yaky@slrpnk.net
    14·
    4 days ago

    Knew this guy, very full of himself, thought of himself as an underapppreciated genius. He applied to a software dev position at a large tech firm (having barely enough qualifications), somehow bullshitted his way through the interviews, and got hired for a $250,000 senior dev position. Of course I got to hear how smart and how much of a badass he was throughout this process.

    Then two months later… he is terminated for underperforming / failing the trial period. And I got to hear how everyone just ganged up on him, how he was “persecuted”, how his manager set him up to fail, and how HR was vindictive.

    Although he got to keep the money and the sign-on bonus…

    • hansolo@lemmy.todayOP
      7·
      3 days ago

      Awesome short term scam. Signing bonus just for a BS parade. Just can’t do that too many times if you actually think you’ll work in that industry.