Tag: work

Thank you for agreeing to take the Pre-Employment Assessment Test. Please answer all questions as truthfully as you can.

mpregcraig:

QUESTION 1: Your wife, the mother of your children, is drowning. You have a life preserver. However, a customer requires your assistance. What do you do?

QUESTION 2: A man has been caught stealing from the company and he is currently awaiting execution. You are the executioner. Do you pull the trigger?

QUESTION 3: Which sentence best describes yourself?

– I have clinical depression.

– I’m ready to be productive!

QUESTION 4: Which sentence best describes yourself?

– I try to do things to the best of ability.

– I am willing to bleed for you.

QUESTION 5: Are you afraid to die?

ok for those of u who are like me and need extra income & can only work from home

crotah:

miashin:

crotah:

I just got a job as a transcriber. if you have a strong command of grammar in english (or other languages), you can transcribe audio for websites like transcribeme or rev, and they send money directly to your paypal weekly.

there’s no interview, you can work as much or as little as you want, and you make $20 per hour of audio you transcribe. you just have to pass a relatively short exam and they send you verification of your work account within a couple days. it’s good shit

Could you maybe send a link please? I’m in a pretty bad work situation and you’ve just offered a potential lifeline.

of course! this is the website I signed up for: http://transcribeme.com/?gclid=CJqJ3sHtitACFROVfgodamMP1A

rootandrock:

I remember, when I had a really rough job a while back and I was absolutely miserable everyone and their grandmothers dog told me to “learn to live with it.” 

It was never about improving the working situation, only about learning to stuff my disappointment, anger, frustration and concerns down into a hole and plastering on a smile. It was never about thriving in my career, it was about taking it a single day at a whack and using behavioral conditioning to live until quittin’ time. It was never about “negotiate for different hours and get some sleep” it was “Here’s a carton of energy drinks. You don’t need two functioning kidneys BUT YOU NEED TO BE PRODUCTIVE.”

That’s not how life, either in the workplace or in general, should be. You should not have to dig a hole and put your humanity in it to muddle through the next abuse of yourself or your fellow persons. You should not have to binge on cat videos to offset the crippling despair. You should not have to install an IV drip of stimulants or sedatives to grow numb and uncaring toward a constant onslaught.

Realizing that I don’t have to do that was probably the single happiest moment of my life. Don’t consume yourself just to struggle on … to borrow a quote: Gladly feast on those who would subdue you. 

Almost all the US jobs created since 2005 are temporary

commissarchrisman:

Survey research conducted by economists Lawrence Katz of Harvard University and Alan Krueger at Princeton University shows that from 2005 to 2015, the proportion of Americans workers engaged in what they refer to as “alternative work” jumped from 10.7% to 15.8%. Alternative work is characterized by being temporary or unsteady—such as work as an independent contractor or through a temporary help agency.

“We find that 94% of net job growth in the past decade was in the alternative work category,” said Krueger. “And over 60% was due to the [the rise] of independent contractors, freelancers and contract company workers.” In other words, nearly all of the 10 million jobs created between 2005 and 2015 were not traditional nine-to-five employment.

Krueger, a former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, was surprised by the finding. The survey’s original goal was to quantify the size of the gig economy (0.5% and growing). The researchers were caught off guard by the tremendous growth of alternative work. There had been almost no change from 1995 to 2005.

Almost all the US jobs created since 2005 are temporary