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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."
Should not accept assignments like this.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
[citation needed]
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
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.
I'm a moderator for furry art community...
Just another reason furries should yiff in hell.
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.
People who complain about having a job in a shit economy, maybe they should be replaced so others can work at Google.
If you can't handle seeing terrible things on the internet, don't work for an internet company or search engine like Google.
The sense of entitlement amazes me.
I'd fap to all of them, as long as the victims were human, female (males, meh, wouldn't affect me either way... unless they were polititians, bankers or known intellectual property trolls... I wouldn't fap to that, but for some reason I'm sure I'd feel some satisfaction from their pain and anguish, even though I don't believe in "an eye for an eye"), prefferably sexy, over, say, 12-15 years old (younger ones are too much like non-sapient animals for me to be comfortable with their pain, they may not have done enough to deserve it yet, although they probably have), not close relatives or friends of mine and prefferably volunteers.
However, I'd need a lot of counseling if the victims were cats, and probably dogs or other animals not usually used as food in my cultural frame of refference, possibly including insects (not horses, though, those shitbags deserve anything bad that happens to them).
Frankly, most human beings deserve anything horrible that happens to them (not as much as horses, though), we're just a bunch of evil, self centered perverted motherfuckers. Cats are, too, but the bastards are cute and fluffy (or smooth and warm in the case of sphynxes) and can purr and probably secrete some kind of pheromone or emit some kind of infrasound or some other form of mind control that forces us to like them, so I can't even bear the thought of them being hurt, much less watch it.
Sadly I have yet to find a site with this kind of content, and my moral code (basically "treat others as you'd want them to treat you") and survival instincts prevent me from making my own entertainment in this regard. If only people who want to commit suicide would volunteer to be filmed performing some of these... but we live in a world of twisted morals, and whoever filmed those volunteers would end up prosecuted and possibly killed, to much contradictory cheering of the crowd.
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
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !