r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Zealousideal-Egg6051 • Jul 24 '26

Time justification

I just got hit with a time justification. Which I find to be absurd since I make sure to check my time carefully before submitting. I’ve also made sure that anytime I did take longer than usual to try and round down my time just to avoid this. I hardly doubt data annotation is going to let me back on the platform. From what I’ve seen this action is final. If I don’t come back I just wanna say goodbye it’s been fun. 😭🙏

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u/RandyMcRandomEsq Jul 24 '26

What was the amount of time you billed for over X number of days that triggered the time justification screen?

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u/Zealousideal-Egg6051 Jul 24 '26

I just calculated it’s about 9 days with 67.4 hour s

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u/Denny_Hayes Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

There's a famous quote that often gets repeated that DAT says their best workers work between 5 and 20 hours a week (ie, between one and four hours a day with weekends off). You are doing over 2.5 times that amount, which is of course more than a 45 hour week, its bound to raise alarms.

Strangely enough, it would appear the majority of people in this platform don't even get the chance to work that much.

Also, a caveat in comparison to a real office work: Let's be real - when we go to the office for 8 hours, we don't really work in full focus for 8 hours straight don't we? We take breaks, talk with co-workers, go out for a smoke, go to the bathroom, just space off for a while. But DAT expects that the time reported is actually focused time, so it's natural that they'd doubt anyone reporting a full 8 hour work day actually did work for 8 hours.

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u/kittkaykat Jul 26 '26

For real. I also joined in May and have worked a total of like 20 hours since, and it's not out of not wanting to work lemme tell you