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staring at stopped scraper for 5mins wondering why no new hits are coming up... I'm going to need a nap today :sleep:
Don't think you missed a single hit anyway :thumbdown:
 
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MTruk is heading down into Brelig territory. 927K hits and continuing to drop faster than Tera Patrick at a "Business" conference in Las Vegas......
Not trying to rub salt on wounds... etc... but

This 'online survey / batch / Turk / whatever e-conomy thing it is' lifestyle seems to be lowering the earnings potential expectations of "real work" (don't flame me, you know what I mean) applicants as they come into a new job.

Maybe the person is lying to us, but we just had a new person join our staff at work, and my boss asked if I knew what "turking" meant (I think the person listed it somehow on a resume), so I told him my own experience (hey, it bought me a laptop and a gaming PC.

Well... person gets hired, nice person, eager to work, I really like the person a lot, but uh... I don't think this individual has any concept of what his/her marketplace value is, because (unless the person is just outright lying (which I can't disprove)), if they are making what they are claiming when we talk at lunch, then... phew... someone settled for the absolute low end of the pay scale range with little or no push back during the salary negotiation stage. I mean, heck I had no experience when I first started (well, fast food + state college) and twice I asked for a higher pay than what was offered (I managed to eek out an additional 2K from the first offer, so "meh').

TLDR: I think 'online working' is creating a new type of employee that is seriously miscalculating their own self worth in the 'real job' marketplace. It's almost like it's creating a new generation that seems to be okay with poverty level wages in the real world. It's that last part scares me (I kind of see it when just messing around for spare cash).

I mean, I only have one sample to go on, but god grief this person settled too low, and even worse... seems happy about it.

sorry.. rant? crap post? If wrong to post I'll remove. Thx.
 

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Not trying to rub salt on wounds... etc... but

This 'online survey / batch / Turk / whatever e-conomy thing it is' lifestyle seems to be lowering the earnings potential expectations of "real work" (don't flame me, you know what I mean) applicants as they come into a new job.

Maybe the person is lying to us, but we just had a new person join our staff at work, and my boss asked if I knew what "turking" meant (I think the person listed it somehow on a resume), so I told him my own experience (hey, it bought me a laptop and a gaming PC.

Well... person gets hired, nice person, eager to work, I really like the person a lot, but uh... I don't think this individual has any concept of what his/her marketplace value is, because (unless the person is just outright lying (which I can't disprove)), if they are making what they are claiming when we talk at lunch, then... phew... someone settled for the absolute low end of the pay scale range with little or no push back during the salary negotiation stage. I mean, heck I had no experience when I first started (well, fast food + state college) and twice I asked for a higher pay than what was offered (I managed to eek out an additional 2K from the first offer, so "meh').

TLDR: I think 'online working' is creating a new type of employee that is seriously miscalculating their own self worth in the 'real job' marketplace. It's almost like it's creating a new generation that seems to be okay with poverty level wages in the real world. It's that last part scares me (I kind of see it when just messing around for spare cash).

I mean, I only have one sample to go on, but god grief this person settled too low, and even worse... seems happy about it.

sorry.. rant? crap post? If wrong to post I'll remove. Thx.
when i got my first real job after college, i didn't negotiate because i was just happy to have finally gotten a job offer after 4-5 months of searching before i graduated. i know i was making way less than my market value and left after 10 months for a 37% pay increase. so YMMV but some people are just happy to have a job and you don't know what situation they came from prior so whatever they're making might be a whole lot for them.
 
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