The Worst Job At Google: a Year of Watching Terrible Things On the Internet

Cutting_Crew writes "Gizmodo has called attention to a story that describes the worst job you can get at Google: wading through and blocking objectionable content, which includes watching decapitations and beastiality. A ex-Google-employee who did just that tells his own story of a year-long stint of looking at the most horrible things on the internet. In the end, he needed therapy, and since he was a contractor, he was let go instead of being hired as a full time employee."

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Sounds kinda like my volunteer job!

[greenreaper]

I'm a moderator for furry art community Inkbunny in my spare time, and I've seen depictions of everything mentioned in the article and much more besides. However, most of it is permitted under our terms of service - instead, we don't allow human in sexual situations/showing genitals (which are what the laws are targeted at), or general photography (which thankfully avoids most realistic and graphic shock pictures). So the diaper porn stays.

Does it change you? Yeah, I guess. Some of the fetishes are pretty crazy. Rape followed (or preceded) by torture, impalement, or beheadings. People being turning into dirty diapers. Art for those who like to fantasize about eating others - or being eaten. Tentacles galore. Over time you start to blank it out; most just gets a glance as I check it off for humans or other policy violations. All in a day's work. Of course, I can stop any time I like, since I'm not being paid.

(This isn't the experience of every Inkbunny user. We have great tag-based blocking features, but of course as a moderator I can't use them while doing my job.)

Re:Another tough job

[AntiBasic]

Spare a thought for all those poor people at Comedy Central who have to watch Fox News all day in search of comedy material for Jon Stewart.

Gotta love the sheeple who rip on FOX but praise the major 3 for their "truth." NBC edited the Zimmerman 911 phone call, or CBS who manufactured blatantly false documents to smear the president, or ABC who went on the witchhunt connecting the Tea Party to the Colorado shooting, or the ABC "reporter" who married an Obama press secretary. No no, let's all bash FOX instead.

Only idiots watch TDS at this point. It ceased to be funny in 2000.

Ridiculous sense of entitlement

[elucido]

An unnamed police department in the United States had a policy for child pornography investigators:

* You could only do it for a few months then it was someone else's turn
* You had mandatory psychological help

Oh, and you had to be trained ahead of time.

So if someone works in a morgue they need to have psychological attention? What about a surgeon?

Do your job, do it well, no one said it would be easy. If it's hard then pay them a bit more money.

Considering these are Google employees I have absolutely no sympathy for them, nil. They get paid more than most employees and have far more benefits than most. If they are such pussies that they cannot handle the dark side of the internet, that is on them. They are probably over paid for the job anyway as many people do that job for free on forums, chat sites, and many other lesser known companies that don't have the money to pay moderators.

Re:Cue the obligatory goatse jokes in 3...2...1

[Mike_Theory]

Sauce/links? ;D

Re:I've seen a lot of fucked up things

[bluefoxlucid]

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