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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Re:Forever

[h4rr4r]

All the time? So PTSD is imaginary in your world. Even the military which ties to use a total institution cannot deal with these problems, so that gives google about a 0% chance.

Re:Sounds kinda like my volunteer job!

[AntiBasic]

I'm a moderator for furry art community...

Just another reason furries should yiff in hell.

The word "Worst" is relative

[Taco Cowboy]

If looking at kiddie-porn, or beheading, or whatever gory pics can made someone so f*cked up that he has to get a therapy I'll say that this guy is already f*cked up _before_ he got the job

I do not like those gory pictures but I ain't gonna be affected by them, those are only pics and vids - In real life I had a lot worse experience

Anyone who has been through war, and experiencing up close all the savagery stuffs that war brings, know what I am talking about

I do not forget - how can anyone forget such experience?

But I do have a whole life in front of me and I am determined to not letting my life being led by those gory memories

Just leave them behind, stuffed the memory in some backrooms inside the brain, and get on with life

The Jewish Holocaust survivors had done that

The Vietnamese war victims had done that

How come the Americans can't?

How come they have to "seek therapy" and letting their lives be ruined by bad experiences?

For crying out loud, this guy who previously worked in Google only get to watch the gory thing - he was spared the other senses, like smell the blood, like feel the scorching heat from an explosion, like having the guy next to you losing almost half his torso in an explosion and still living and screaming - many of us had lived through that, and our lives ain't as f*cked as that guy

All I can say is that the ex-Google guy is nothing but another new-age whiner - wasting time whining about how his life was altered because of watching gory vids and pics
 

Re:The word "Worst" is relative

[Taco Cowboy]

They can "torn" how ever many new ones but the basic tenet of LIFE is to get on living

Wallowing on what had happened in the past is NOT living, at least, not living to the full

There's one even telling me I do not know anything about psychology - What I'm interested to know how much psychology that guy knows?

What's the point of having double, or triple, or quadruple dose of so-called "psychology" if one can't even get on with one's life?

What is the most important aspect of life is what we ARE doing right now

We can only plan for the future

As for the past - other than the lessons that I've learnt - I let the past be the past

Crying over spilled milk ain't gonna get any of the spilled milk back

Wallowing over the past over and over again ain't gonna change the past

What had happened, had happened

Having sessions upon sessions of therapy ain't gonna turn back the clock

Time goes on, life goes on, and the most important is -
Are we prepared to tackle the challenges of tomorrow?