What's the worst job in the world?
What's the worst job in the world?
This really just depends on how desensitized the person reviewing the content is. I imagine most of us that grew up exposed to the internet in the late 90s and early 200s are pretty desensitized to violence and grossness.
Stuff involving kids is hard to get desensitized to for most people, though. That’s the truly hard job, are the ones who have to review things like child abuse materials.
Jobs with a high mortality rate or drastically shortened life expectancy in places without an alternative.
A migrant in a foreign land, alone, with hostile racist imbeciles everywhere around them, working like a slave.
Thousands died building Qatar’s infrastructure in preparation for the World Cup.
Hassan al-Thawadi, secretary general of Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, admitted in a TV interview this week that there have been “between 400 and 500” migrant worker deaths in response to a question about deaths “in the last 12 years from any construction related … to the World Cup.” It was a striking admission from a Qatari official.
They surrender their passport on arriving.
They’re housed in a state so poor, that their keepers honestly said “they don’t need a shower as they can wash themselves from the bowl of a clean toilet” as if that was okay.
They work in stifling heat without water, break, or humanitarian oversight.
They die.
This really just depends on how desensitized the person reviewing the content is. I imagine most of us that grew up exposed to the internet in the late 90s and early 200s are pretty desensitized to violence and grossness.
Stuff involving kids is hard to get desensitized to for most people, though. That’s the truly hard job, are the ones who have to review things like child abuse materials.
If we’re lucky, the AI is somehow good at this job without actually suffering.
You know we ain’t that lucky. The AI is gonna be great that job, but it’s also gonna suffer.
Globally
Probably being one of those exploited slaves in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the hand dug tunnels to mine cobalt. Or indebted slaves in Pakistan who spend their whole lives making bricks for taking out predatory loans.
But where I live any manual labor as I am very accident prone, or DMV and Postoffice.
The airport clerk at the lost luggage counter. I’ve watched dozens of people run over to wait in line, then to shout at him when it’s their turn, their flight was cancelled or redirected without their bags, they’re going to sue his company and demand he reimburses their entire vacation, all before he even opens his mouth. And then the next person has the same story and they have to spill the entire thing out again.
The clerk looks tremendously beaten down, and just answers the customers with robotic answers, “please fill out the form, the airline will contact you within 24 hours. Please fill out the form, the airline will contact you within 24 hours.”