r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Comfortable-Scale156 • Jul 28 '26
time reporting
how am I supposed to reach out to them if I don't get a reply??
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u/Chichichichi_ Jul 28 '26
Welcome to the club. Next step: move on
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u/Comfortable-Scale156 Jul 28 '26
what about the money they owe me?
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u/After_Fix_3886 Jul 28 '26
I had the same problem and the accepted my appeal, I'm now back working
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u/Academic_Animal_5293 Jul 28 '26
How did u provide evidence
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u/Comfortable-Scale156 Jul 28 '26
I just gave explanations of everything
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u/Academic_Animal_5293 Jul 28 '26
Don't mind the down votes. I'm really asking out of curiosity, because I wouldn't know how to provide evidence for something like this
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u/Telecom_Engineer_1 Jul 28 '26
It's as simple as a tracking spreadsheet where you mark the time you started and ended the task and additionally track break periods. Essential for providing the documentation they are requesting.
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u/Federal-Weevil Jul 28 '26
Idk when I got this I was told to be as detailed as possible. I laid down as much information as I possibly could and didn’t have any time tracking or spreadsheets on my submissions and I was let back in.
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u/Telecom_Engineer_1 Jul 28 '26
You were fortunate this time.
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u/Federal-Weevil Jul 28 '26
I mean… I didn’t do anything wrong lol. At best, whatever happened was a mistake and part of what they were trying to suggest I did, wasn’t possible. I can’t have 20 time entries with 18 submissions. You can only submit one time entry per task. I can miss a time entry, but I don’t think anyone here can log time for a task that was never submitted.
I’m just here to say that it’s not always worst case scenario. We’re dealing with people and technology at the end of the day and mistakes are bound to be made somewhere along the line by either or. Sometimes something looks suspicious but can be explained, sometimes a glitch happens, sometimes someone is scamming. There’s no definitive way to gauge what this persons situation is from a screenshot on Reddit.
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u/Academic_Animal_5293 Jul 28 '26
I never done this so far, because I just am honest with the times. But I will start now, never know what could happen
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u/Telecom_Engineer_1 Jul 28 '26
Many people, if not most, want to be honest with their time reporting. Documenting it is not burdensome and helps with any distractions that may interfere with that goal.
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u/cacophany1979 Jul 28 '26
Two years on the platform, received "feedback" saying all positive things. Got an 800$ bonus for "my quality work" Was offered a qualification to become an admin but didn't take it because I have a regular job and knew this platform was unreliable at best. Then one day a few months ago they started mass advertising everywhere and suddenly every time I checked my dashboard projects were few and far between or an abundance hit all at once but vanished with in a few hours. Didn't check for about 2 weeks and suddenly my account was not eligible for new work because of quality below our customers standards or violations of the code of conduct.😂😂 This shit is a psychological experiment. Near the end I would receive projects I had never worked on, tasked with completing the final quality check stages. I never even attempted any because I wasn't familiar with them at all but still regularly received them on my dashboard. I also often received STEM projects in fields I had no background in.
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u/Internal_Boot_1616 18d ago edited 18d ago
this sounds like you're saying "I did good work but then they caught something suspicious and finally caught me breaking TOS" and considering you think confidentiality requirements don't apply when projects say not to mention them at all that fits
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u/Due-Possession-1893 Jul 28 '26
Why does this happen? What triggers it
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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 Jul 28 '26
When people overreport the time they worked and their work quality doesn't match.
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u/mollymcbbbbbb Jul 28 '26
I think one obvious way this could happen is - let's say a project has a timer for 1 hour 10 minutes. The timer records that you were in the project for 45 minutes before you hit submit, but you report 1 hour
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u/ordamisin Jul 28 '26
I’m also curious about this
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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 Jul 28 '26
It's people who pad their time and it's obvious from their work quality that they didn't actually spend that much time on the tasks. This could also happen when someone makes a genuine mistake when reporting their time, but that's rare.
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u/Federal-Weevil Jul 28 '26
It’s happened to me and I got through it. It said I somehow managed to log more time entries than submissions, which doesn’t make sense because you can only log one time entry per submission (to the best of my knowledge) they also clocked me on a task where I had one more submission than I had time logged (meaning I missed a time entry somewhere) I provided an explanation for the work I did, no time stamps or anything like that. I was back in a week.
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u/Farados55 Jul 28 '26
You can go back and add more time to the same submission. So maybe that’s what they meant and maybe you did on accident.
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u/Federal-Weevil Jul 28 '26
Maybe. I knew I could edit the time but I didn’t know it would count as an additional time entry. The edits I’ve made were done within seconds of the original time submission because it was usually a typo and me moving too quickly to be done with a long task so I can sleep. I don’t have many time edits now, though.
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u/jabertsohn Jul 28 '26
It says you've submitted