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

Posted by Soulskill on from the rather-flip-burgers dept.

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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  1. Every... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    corporate windows user experiences the same or worse each day,
    praying for a quick end to it all...

  2. Lightweight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This guy gets paid to do what 4chaners happily do for free and he complains about needing therapy. .. On the other hand, I smell a crowd source opportunity.

    1. Re:Lightweight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      This guy gets paid to do what 4chaners happily do for free and he complains about needing therapy. .. On the other hand, I smell a crowd source opportunity.

      You'd hire a 4channer to figure out what is objectionable?

      Captcha: suicide ... et tu /.

    2. Re:Lightweight by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 5, Funny

      You'd hire a 4channer to figure out what is objectionable?

      Sure, you just measure the time taken to view the image. If it's long enough to masturbate, it's objectionable.

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  3. Fap.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Are they hiring?

  4. Re:As the actual submitter I'll post my thought... by Arthur+B. · · Score: 3, Funny

    Porn only effects people when contraception fails

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  5. He was let go? by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    Since Google doesn't do bad things, it was obviously his fault.

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  6. Re:Cue the obligatory goatse jokes in 3...2...1 by Missing.Matter · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd like to see that job posting...

    Wanted: Individual to wade through the most depraved and terrible consequences of human imaginations known to man.
    Requirements: Must be completely emotionless and unsympathetic to the human condition. Robots are preferred but not required. A J.D., M.B.A. or experience in government is also a plus.
    Compensation: Competitive

  7. Admission test by gmuslera · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you manage to take out semantics and feelings from images/videos/etc you could take this job, Mr. Spock

  8. Another tough job by fiannaFailMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  9. Re:Cue the obligatory goatse jokes in 3...2...1 by gestalt_n_pepper · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, they never said, "Don't watch evil, did they?

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  10. Re:Cue the obligatory goatse jokes in 3...2...1 by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Preference given to former US Congressmen or Senators. Seniority status a plus.

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  11. Yahoo used to by minstrelmike · · Score: 4, Funny

    I remember reading a similar story years ago from Yahoo emps. They hired older women. The best quote was from a lady who said the worst part of the job wasn't the pictures; it was the atrocious spelling.

  12. Re:On the other hand, I can see contracting this o by ArsonSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    isn't that employee on employee violence?

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