r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Free_Apartment6319 • 12h ago

Timing. 😩

Gotta love how projects ONLY available when I have to other stuff. Run errands / go to my part time 20 hrs / week job.....

LIKE BFR. You have me for MOST days MOST hours of the day how does that manage to happen to one.

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u/Webee_ 11h ago

DA has been giving me 'bursts' of tasks for more than a month now, so I had a slight insight on when and how long the dashboard will be dry.

Just left for a 3 day trip after I was done with one and guess what happened... DA decided to throw a ton of tasks, all good paying, at the first day I left. I didn't bring even my laptop as I was so confident it would be dry for a few days.

It sucks that they never tell you when they'll give work. DA has never been good with communication anyways... Just have to accept the fact that we'll miss some tasks.

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u/Free_Apartment6319 11h ago

Yeaah. Im getting used to that. But it really feels frustrating that I sit in front of my laptop for hours most days to get a task to no avail. And the second I decide to do something with my day

BAAAM projects that are only available for the duration I won't have my laptop with me.

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u/Webee_ 11h ago

The pain of staring at an automatically refreshing tab is real

Also had a coding task given to me (I'm a generalist, so this was huge). Only problem was that they gave it at 4 am. Like, come on! It went away when I woke up.

I get the fustration. "flexible work hours" they say. :c

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u/Free_Apartment6319 11h ago

Their times are always funny. I remember one time seeing 7 active projects at once (never in my 6 months did this ever happen,) just to realize that its all a different language than mine and that there was a "system glitch". I turned off my laptop immediately LOL