Blizzard did away with WFH.
And yes, 16 USD is very low. You’d either be splitting a house with at least four other adults or living with your parents on 16 USD an hour in Irvine, California.
Really strange, too, considering one of the huge perks of remote jobs is you don’t have to pay LA / San Francisco wages.
Yep. I feel bad for native Californians who vote against the norm, if ya know what I mean, but most of them have created the unlivable conditions they live in.
come work in cali, be homeless, require food stamps, 16/hr will get u a nice 1 tent apartment by the railroad tracks between the math heads and the op its
“I’m sorry, I didn’t quite get that, could you try rephrasing the question?” “Let’s try another way” “Before I connect you to a live representative, I need more information”
Coup. What a wonderful word. It can solve so many issues.
I didnt bother digging… but while yes… $16/hr is incredibly low in the US…
But in Indonesia, Central America, India? That is actually Quite good. So my question is… is all of this work remote?
Here is the other scenario. In order to out-source labor, in some states, I am not 100% sure on California, you have to demonstrate that you are unable to source the labor you need within the United States based on the the wages you can pay for the positions.
So the shady, but all too common practice is to create the job role, with job requirements, then offer a very low wage for it. You are making the job undesirable on purpose. That is so that you can demonstrate that you cannot source the labor you need in the US, so you have to outsource to other countries, where the wages you can afford to pay are acceptable and even desirable there.
I would think these low paid positions are designed for that role. To outsource QA testing to other countries and get it done on the cheap. Which also means low quality results
good thing we’re not talking about those places.
Yep that’s the one and I am completely convinced there are some companies that find the most annoying version of that they can to frustrate you and hopes you hang up before talking to a live person 
I find that if you start cussing at the machine it gives you a live person faster.
$16 an hour? They trying to get high-schoolers to do this or something?
16 $ per hour is barely livable, anywhere in North America, just saying.
Medical benefits you have to pay for and a lot of swag that you have to worry about protecting since you’re living on the street. $16 an hour doesn’t go far in Irvine.
Even without debt you cannot live on $16 an hour.
I have little to no debt and with just the cost of living, paying the utility bills, insurance & paying the rent, no car payment, and I would be living in the streets on $16 an hour.
It doesn’t work at all, unless you have someone carrying you.
It’s true, as a pet sitter, I make $60 an hour. And most of my people tip 20% on top of that.
Still 100% better than forum moderation and customer service.
It is ultimately going to boil down to primarily where and, to some extent, how you live. You can live off of $16 an hour in the midwest a lot easier than in California or New York so the idea of it’s impossible to live off $16 is simply not universal. You know what you can do regardless of where you live though? Get a roommate. Work more hours. Get a second job.
No one is pretending that $16 an hour, or any low amount of pay, is glamorous or won’t come without tradeoffs, but if you ended up in a job that comes with minimal responsibility, skills, and/or educational requirements to get into it which all makes it’s low paying I don’t know why you don’t think that’s not going to come with some trade offs.
16 dollars an hour isn’t enough to play classic
California minimum wage is about $23/hour at a variety of places. You won’t find quality at that price in Irvine, nor the SF Bay Area.
You can find cheaper labor in India and China. The cheapest will be Eastern Europe.
This is a detached from reality take. Maybe if your supporting a full family. But just a wife or even yourself (and this is for basically out of college so likely) ots completely doable without sacrificing anything. California. Sure not likely.
Damn. Thats a nice scam lol.