February 04, 2004

Paid to View Porn

The flickering screen shows a crude picture of a naked woman. The twenty-something woman who's viewing it looks slightly bored, as though she's seen the same image hundreds of times before.

As reported in Network World, the employees of Websense spend the day surfing the net looking for pornographic sites or sites that would be verboten at the workplace. But it isn't the fun job that some may imagine it to be, "Once you've seen 20,000 pairs of breasts, another pair is 'So what'. " The company employs 24 people who work at all times of the day or night to unearth sites with obscene or banned material.

I guess if you're an adolescent male or at the emotional level of an adolescent male you might find the job entertaining. Personally, it seems like it would get really old, really fast.

And here's the kicker...
Since I watched the Super Bowl Halftime Show shouldn't I be receiving a check from MTV?

Posted by jdmays at February 4, 2004 07:41 AM | TrackBack
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I could think of worse jobs

Posted by: Geoffrey at February 4, 2004 03:04 PM

Does the company pay for therapy? What a horrible job! It would be like hiring someone to taste-test toxic waste!

Posted by: Douglas at February 4, 2004 08:29 PM