Jobs!
I've been offered a freelance position with A Company. I would mostly be freelancing the likes of 'research' and 'model answers', for which they will reimburse me financially. Lovely.
But I'm a cynical lady and have to suspect that maybe these model answers are being sold on for the purposes of STUDENT CHEATING. On the sly, of course; that was no part of the application bumpf.
I'm torn. On the one hand, it's money for something I can do standing on my head in the dark. On the other hand . . . well, it's STUDENT CHEATING. I've lost a lot of my principles, but this one is still pretty strong. I don't want to encourage lazy students, but I do want money!
Moral existential angst!
But I'm a cynical lady and have to suspect that maybe these model answers are being sold on for the purposes of STUDENT CHEATING. On the sly, of course; that was no part of the application bumpf.
I'm torn. On the one hand, it's money for something I can do standing on my head in the dark. On the other hand . . . well, it's STUDENT CHEATING. I've lost a lot of my principles, but this one is still pretty strong. I don't want to encourage lazy students, but I do want money!
Moral existential angst!
posted by Lucy at 6:17 pm
8 Comments:
No no no no no. This isnt cheating. You're helping the communication of information. The world exists on the temporary aquisition of knowledge, and the more efficient the mechanism for collecting and dispersing that knowledge, the further mankind can progress. What if Mr Bell had been selfish and kept his ideas for extended-distance telephonic communication to himself? Or Newton had kept Shtumn about the laws of gravity? People are empowered through knowledge and information. You would empower people and enable them to make better use of their saved time, fulfilling secondary tasks and furthering their use to society and maximising their labout potential.
Or
Lay back, shut up and think of the money.
Students are lazy already, your efforts will be but a drop in the ocean.
/cynical response.
Besides, think of all the lovely things you could buy.
Anonymous, I don't know who you are, but on the condition that you're not my brother, do you want to get married.
Bollocks, what gave it away?
It's legal in Nevada
Tom
Are you guys originally from Norfolk? That's gross!
A good compromise would be to take the job but to do it badly. Then these cheating students will fail their exams and rue their decision to drink tizer and watch countdown all day instead of studying.
James: Now I feel universally insignificant, thanks so much!
Tom: Neither of us lives in Nevada, and anyway Laura looks like she might know how to kill me with her bare hands if she so chose.
Jon: This is unhelpful coming from an individual who, at 25, chose to move in with his identical twin brother (how do you pronounce 'narcisscism'?)
Mark: The voice of reason, and of being fired. Also, Tizer.
Outcome: I told the company I did not want the job! I do not want to work for The Man, especially when The Man is breaking The Law.
You have a severe case of stick-it-to-da-man-noisis. I hope you don't get better, for this is a good thing. I have chosen to work for The Man, and am not sure that I enjoy it. Thankfully, The Man could be making me redundant soon and I can pursue a funiture making career with that NON-identical twin you mentioned, who handed in his notice yesterday.
There is instability in the job market, young one. Find work, you will, but not tonight, for food to cook and eat there is and people to play with there are.
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