remembering this worker verification from an amazon mechanical turk HIT a couple years agopic.twitter.com/6ldSNaOdsm
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went to the reddit thread it see what was above 0:00:09 (it's "repeat until timer ends") and the comments have an equally dystopian solution to skip the mandated Savoring time, which is apparently to bring a printed out barcode of a period and scan it every time this pops up https://twitter.com/msainat1/status/1390784754434199554 …pic.twitter.com/ZM6rRgQttl
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verifications like this are funny, but they are insidious too because a hit pays you a few cents to a few dollars, and paper and ink and your time are not free. it's exactly the kind of joke a salaried employee with free office supplies would make
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in the same way 15 seconds to close your eyes and think about something happy might be stress-relieving for an amazon upper manager whose time is not constantly monitored, segmented, and punished for deviation from task
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yeah apparently!!
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is this the total timer? I mean, why 9 seconds?
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I would imagine it's actually 10 or 15 and the person who took this just had to get their phone out and open the camera
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like...... "." in barcode form??? why!?
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Barcodes are usually interpreted by computers as keystrokes, so the . Must be the key that advances the software
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15 second rests at unpredictable intervals is just standing water torture.
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