The old hypothetical loving billionaire is at it again.
What’s the **minimum **you’d accept for this position.
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[li]40 hours a week (5X8)[/li][li]Sitting in a chair in an empty room.[/li][li]No human contact, nothing to read, no computers, no entertainment devices[/li][li]No sleeping at work.[/li][li] No writing or recording devices[/li][li] No exercising beyond stretching your legs every hour.[/li][li]Minimum term, 1 year.[/li][li]No right to sue the company for these conditions. (She’s got the legal system in her pocket)[/li][/ul]
143 gazillion dollars. (or maybe 143 bazillion dollars, I forget what’s more, a bazillion or a gazillion? I know they’re both more than a Brazilian).
I’d do it for minimum wage. I would prefer a boring “job” like that to a stressful, demanding one.
I’d say about 40k a year would be enough to get me to change from my current job. Enough of a raise to get my own apartment and live the life I want to be living right now. I kinda wonder how long I’d last, though. Those conditions might drive me crazy.
I am narcoleptic. No amount of money could entice me to stay awake 8 hours a day with no interaction. If all I had to do was make a sincere effort to stay awake, I would do it for about 65k a year. More than I’m making now, with a bit extra on top to compensate for the experience lost.
$40k? Minimum wage?! Jesus…
It’d take me several hundred thousand at least. 8 hours a day of zero stimulus is literally torture, imo. A mild form sure, but torture.
I’d probably agree to do that for a million dollars + primo health benefits (to treat the inevitable hemorrhoids and nervous tics) + $10 million in life insurance, because I would never make it a year and I’d like to leave something nice for my husband.
I pretty much had this job. For one day.
The problem here is, no sleeping at work? What is there to keep me awake, anyway?
I spent my entire day at this horrible temporary job figuring out ways to rob the bank (I was on the 8th floor of a building that housed a bank in many of its floors). A couple more days of that and I probably would have worked it out.
Now, a woman in my old office building had a job she found horribly boring. She was the receptionist in a one-person office, the guy traveled a lot. She got maybe five phone calls a day and occasionally had to Fed Ex something. She read a lot of magazines, and said the job drove her crazy. I thought that job had just enough stuff to keep you interested while providing plenty of recreational time (reading is recreation). I would have done that job for minimum wage, except at the time I couldn’t actually afford to work for minimum wage (child care costs).
One question about the job: Is somebody watching me? If not, I’ll take that job for 100K.
Once, before the days of widespread computers, I was given the job of writing out a list of all the numbers from 0001 to 9999 in a long column. (It was to be photocopied and used as some sort of checklist.) I did not complain or object, but I literally could not do it. I kept going, but I made lots of mistakes when I lost concentration due to the intense boredom. Eventually they found me something else to do, and passed this job over to another employee. I am not sure how they made out with it.
What you have described can also be described as “most office jobs prior to the invention of the internet”.
Also, your billionare doesn’t need to “have the legal system in her pocket”. You can’t sue a company simply because a job is boring and they don’t let you do not work related tasks to pass the time.
I actually had a temp job that was like this. My job was to sit by myself in a big white room full of blank white envelopes stuffed with blank white paper at a Pitney Bowes plant. For 8 hours a day, I was to pass envelopes through a postage meter and then write down the machine’s counter number at the end of the day. Basically just enough activity that you couldn’t do nothing.
I stayed for one day.
Well, considering that I know I wouldn’t make it and it would require me quitting my current job, I don’t think there’s an amount they could offer.
I mean, you could offer me a trillion dollars to make it through the year, but if I know I’m going to fall asleep, start doodling, or do something to break the terms of employment long before the year is up, there’s really no point in giving up the job that I have and like.
So the job would be to do nothing? Literally? Except think.
I’d need $1M min, with excellent bennies and would still be hard pressed to make it a full year.
I don’t think I could do it. I multitask all the time. I can’t even sit on a conference call without responding to email or reading The Dope. I believe that no matter how much money they offered I would fail to finish the year.
Hypothetical? I work as a temp, dude. This isn’t hypothetical for me. Okay, the minimum based on what these jobs actually pay is $12 per hour (well, they pay less, but I won’t take less because I have 16 years of experience).
Jeeze, I want to live in a world where this actually IS a hypothetical.
I think about $150k. A little more than double what I make now. That would be the absolute minimum to take on that task, and I could only do it if I got that much more money plus knew it would absolutely end in a year.
For the first nine months of my current job it wasn’t quite as bad as you describe (it has much improved) but I was miserable. I was thinking of quitting and taking a different one for about 15K less when they *finally *gave me something to work on.
Depends on what the actual job is and how desperate I am for money. As described above, it does sound mindnumbingly boring, but I don’t understand what the job is. Is it like a security job, where I have to just sit there keeping a chair warm? I think I could do that job for $50 an hour. No. Make it $47.98 an hour to make the math I will be doing in my head more difficult. “Let’s see, I’ve worked three hours now, and that represents $143.94 before taxes, which is only 7.5 % percent of the total hours I’m going to work this week, which means I have approximately 92.5 % of the workweek left…”
That’s how I keep my brain busy while driving alone on long road trips. I do math in my head. I hate doing math in my head.
I’d be happy with minimum wage. It’s $7.50/hour more than I’m making now.
I just can’t do that job for any amount of money.
I could probably do that job for a week if I would make some extreme amount of money (and I would tell my firm I had jury duty or something so I wouldn’t risk losing my current gig). Any longer than that and I would go insane. So, I’d do it for minimum $52 million per year (so I get a million for my week in hell).