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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/s...,4180453.story
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2012-08-24, 11:42 | Link #23122 | |
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...08-24-11-49-15 Police killed the suspect and at least nine others were wounded, some possibly by police gunfire, city officials said. Some of the wounded were grazed by bullets and others hit directly, but all were expected to survive, officials said. Also, NYC has a ban on concealed carry without a license and permit. Stories like this prove that determined individuals don't give a shit about the law.
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2012-08-24, 11:52 | Link #23123 | |
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2012-08-24, 11:59 | Link #23124 | |
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2012-08-24, 12:13 | Link #23125 | |
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Still, the pay must be good while it lasted as nobody said anything about Google being a miser. You might have a chance to get re-contracted too. |
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2012-08-24, 12:20 | Link #23126 | |
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still if you have a mind already in the gutter, one year of it isn't bad.
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2012-08-24, 14:30 | Link #23130 | |
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2012-08-24, 14:48 | Link #23133 |
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Didn't read the article, eh? It wasn't 9-5 (8 hour shift). It was 12 hour shifts, all year long. He ate all three meals there, so it was likely 6-6, 7-7, or 8-8, unless they didn't count the time he was eating, in which case it could be upwards of really 15 hours there.
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2012-08-24, 15:11 | Link #23135 | |
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I noted the all three meals thing, yeah, but wasn't it supposed to imply a good thing, as in, Google's got good services if you work there? And only then did he go to explain how the good first impression hid a not very nice job. Plus the main problem was that, aside from the nature of the task, the contract didn't amount to anything after a year of sacrifice (it's like getting thrown out after a challenging "hardship post" in the US Foreign Service), not that the shifts were longer than usual; his direct manager was apparently sympathetic, but Google management didn't really care (they did give him "some" therapy) and even Google recruiters don't really know what he had to do. |
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2012-08-24, 19:59 | Link #23136 |
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The article didn't really go into details of what the job is about, just hinted that it's a form of self-censorship to close off any liability the company might get itself exposed to. And that includes those employed as Censors when they are done
The curious part is that why didn't Google just be outright honest about the job and get psychological profiling as part of the interview. It just seeems that they have no faith in how much one can stomach before they breaks down. I believe some of those FBI and DEA agents who deals with the Mexican drug cartels had it worse. |
2012-08-24, 21:30 | Link #23137 |
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I still think the job for JR where you have to go around the nation, picking off body parts of idiots who stood in front of the train and cleaning the tracks is worse.
It's infamous urban legend of "job no one wants to do but someone has to" in Japan. It's one thing to look at pictures, it's another to peel flesh and flying body parts with a pair of tweesers.
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2012-08-24, 22:09 | Link #23138 | |
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Speaking of which, one important aspect of humans is that we are adaptable creatures. The novelty of things tends to wear off after the first few exposure when we get used to it. This is usually true for things that we do for a living. |
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2012-08-25, 02:39 | Link #23140 | ||
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Time to dust out the old black flag.
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This echoes the Greek situation where many of the downtrodden and victimized simply "went home" to the rural areas and started making a living the way their ancestors used to. Of course, I don't think Spain is on the throes of another popular anarchist revolution any time soon. None of the agricultural workers here are quite CNT-FAI militia in the making. Though I do wonder, aside from the obvious anti-bourgeois anger, how the European Common Agricultural Policy could be responsible for the ruin of these southern farmers, or, perhaps, conversely, how necessary it is in order to not bring ruin to every European farmer by sheer overproduction. _____________ Meanwhile, in God-fearing, Bible-Blessed, America the Beautiful... From Bible-Belt Pastor to Atheist Leader: Quote:
Well, actually I sympathize with them. My experience as an atheist has absolutely nothing to do with the very real struggles of these post-Christian individuals, but that's mostly down to luck, heritage and geography. I think I should be quite extreme with my atheism myself -- or more probably, dead by suicide -- had I been forced to grow up neck deep in Jesus and then lost every single relationship, my career, and the world I had known because I came out of the atheist "closet." Nice of those wonderful Christians by the way with their forgiving, merciful ostracism. The article is kind of annoying though in failing utterly to acknowledge the vast majority of atheists, those who just don't think very much about religion, as opposed to the driven and the troubled who are compelled to fight back. Nor, for example, that people like Professor Dawkins mostly does actual science and only comes out to do science advocacy once in a while. |
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