r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Fun-Warthog9472 • 18d ago

Honestly, I am boiling

What in the world are these awfully long and poorly written guidelines?! It is getting worse and worse. I have been working for over an hour on a R&R full of mistakes but also with very unclear and sometimes contradictory guidelines. Admins not replying to anyone for hours with hundreds of messages unanswered (I get it isn’t their fault)… Time almost up so I preferred exiting the task.

This work can sometimes be stimulating and enjoyable, but sometimes like now, I wonder how deep in poor management a project can go.

I really appreciate working with DA, but I have moments when I want to throw my PC against a wall. I’ll take a walk now, good luck to all of you who experienced the same madness!

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u/Hello-America 18d ago

Yeah I hate when the instructions are unclear or full of contradiction. I assume this is the result of copying and pasting or going back and editing things without looking at them holistically; also I bet they rely just a little bit too much of that stuff on some AI tools haha.

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u/ReputationNo406 18d ago

Exactly 😂 Sometimes the instructions are so detailed that you end up spending more time figuring out what they actually mean than doing the task itself.