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The Triumph of Bullshit
Saturday, April 4th, 2009Did You Know?
Monday, March 30th, 2009Times. Day Changin’
What do we want? Jobs!
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009& they’re wanted now.
A friend of mine recently needed to fill a dish washing position.
At 2:45, he posted the availability on Craigslist.
By 3:3o he’d received over 250 e-mails.
E-mails kept coming in, so the posting was removed. He says he typically receives significantly fewer than the 6 e-mails per minute he received with this posting.
The moral of the story is this:
If you’re looking to fill a minimum wage position - use Criagslist
If you’re looking to find a minimum wage position - don’t
Need Extra Cash?
Thursday, March 19th, 2009Remedial tasks to the rescue!
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is always hiring. Computers have successfully taken plenty of jobs away from the work force, but fortunately for us not all tasks can be performed by a computer! Sometimes, a job just calls for an HIT (a Human Intelligence Task) .
The Mechanical Turk name is based on “The Turk,” which was an 18th century chess-playing machine that appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent. Sure, it turned out The Turk was a hoax, an illusion, but oh wellz, welcome to the work force!