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Now please excuse the subject working for this company was okay while s I was able to obtain a lot of skills that I did not have when I first started working there I was also able to brought out my network and learn about digitation Bitcoin and a whole lot of other stuff.  After building a relationship with management and literally doing stuff outside of our work schedule such as friends and and whatnot when things happened in office and I was not able to complain about them that did not make me feel good and I was pretty much threatened with if you say something you lose your job and the other person will lose their job also so being in a hush-hush situation was not comfortable also coming in to this job under the assumption that I would be doing Admin work was a big shocker. Admin work that's running the front desk and all of it tells ordering supplies phones emails Etc also hosting any type of events and helping out with the ordering of the food the catering and Etc you would be held accountable to do bank statements match up receipts deposits anyting a nonprofit needs you to do you will do it and that can run a person thin. So what I recommend this job depending on what you're looking for I think this is an okay temp job for maybe somebody fresh out of high school going in the college some ilvolo those sorts.

My experience with the Internet Archive so far has been one of my all time favorite jobs and the most gratifying. It's an amazing mission driven nonprofit with a fantastic goal of preserving written text in an electronic format for future generations to enjoy and learn from long after the paper has and ink has faded!  My director, Jeff Sharpe, is a great flexible an understanding boss!  Sometimes the only difficult part of the job is getting over how monotonous it can get, but in order to combat that your able to get up and ask to learn some new aspect of the book scanning process with makes it new fresh and interesting again! So far I've been able to learn tons of things about open source software that I would have never had the opportunity to learn before my time here!

Life at the Archive was interesting and stressful. The leadership was largely directionless, leaving mid-level management stretched too thin to provide much support to employees, and there were several instances of direction changes mid-stream. HR was neurotic and hostile much of the time, and recently had a series of meltdowns.

That said, I believe that the services that the Archive provides are both necessary and fun to work with, so if you're willing to put up with that, it can be a great place.

I worked as a book scanning associate. The work is repetitive and somewhat mindless, but on the plus side you get to listen to music or podcasts all day. 

I loved my coworkers and the boss of my location (IA has many locations across the states) but there were no opportunities for advancement in such a small office and no push from upper management in the organization to create opportunities or further learning for people wishing to stay with the company for a long time.

Plus, the pay is pretty bad. ~$10/hr which doesn't go far at all in Boston or the Bay area (two of IA's main offices).

A typical day greet all of the coworkers while we are grabbing our books heading to our computers to go and sign and so w could get our hours. The management was real good they stayed on top of everything that was going on in the office. The hardest part of job was turning so many pages a day other tan that everything was great enjoyed the job very much it was just too bad they could afford to keep us all.

Working for a satellite location for IA makes it very clear you are a second class citizen.  Time off is about half of that from head office, and almost all of it has to be spent for holidays where IA is open, and your partner institution is closed.  I take great pride in my work, and believe wholeheartedly that IA is a valuable and necessary thing, but it feels very difficult to have any concerns from the remote centers taken seriously.  I love the work I do, but I am capable of so much more.

Meeting the scanning goal each day was something to look forward to. Sometimes you couldn't of course when scanning small books, fragile books, or books with tight gutters.

Internet Archive is an engaging place to work if you are an introvert who lives in their head and wants repetitive work. There is also a strong teamwork aspect. Employees work with people across the globe.

Being at the Internet Archive was like taking a break from my career. It was worth some time, and I love the people there, but as I settled into my role the internal politics of the IA mired my attempts to get anything worth doing done.

Internet Archive is a good company. They care about their end users and employees. They always try to be fair with us and treat us very well. They do have hardly any vacation time, though, and a required unpaid break between Christmas and New years, though.

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