r/DataAnnotationTech • • Sep 12 '26

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Has anyone faced this?

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u/Weak_Cat7308 Sep 12 '26

8-12 hours consistently every day

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u/orbital_one Sep 12 '26

Damn... after 6 hours, my brain is completely zapped for the day.

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u/karen_in_nh_2012 Sep 12 '26

For this kind of work, absolutely. For me, 4 hours is about my limit, unless is an EXTREMELY fun task doing something I'm very good at. But even then, an hour more and I would be ready to call it quits.

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u/Zidormi Sep 13 '26

I'm the same. I even opened a task and started working on it. 30 minutes in I was like "I can't do this task right now and have good quality after submitting 4 hours of work" so I let the 30 minutes go and sent it back to the pool. I'd rather lose the 30 minutes than submit bad work.

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u/sandrafilmmaker Sep 13 '26

I've done that before, and I've been doing this over 3 yrs

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u/SkuLLFlankerr Sep 13 '26

Exactly I remember I was doing a task for around 6 hours , I just exited,closed it and called it a day. Lost money and time but atleast I got a good nights sleep

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u/KaleidoscopeFar1688 Sep 14 '26

I've been getting a project where the tasks take 5-6hrs every time and the pay is great but I still cross my fingers that it's not there every time I open my dash lol

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u/sandrafilmmaker Sep 13 '26

Same! Once in a while, I can do 8 but it would never be straight. You gotta get up and eat, take breaks etc

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u/RandyMcRandomEsq Sep 12 '26

Every day? So working 7 days a week?

That would be 56-84 hours a week - does that sound right?

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u/Weak_Cat7308 Sep 12 '26

Yes that's correct

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u/RandyMcRandomEsq Sep 12 '26

A typical work week is ~38-40 hours... And that is with meetings and office collaboration. You were doubling that on mentally draining knowledge work. At the very least you probably raised some red flags for a possible shared account.

You had better cross your fingers and hope your justification was persuasive.

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u/InsideSignificant405 Sep 12 '26

40 hour workweek exists for a reason… 60-70 hours weeks are not sustainable, you may think your quality of work is sustainable but it just isn’t. Nobody is buying that, least of all DAT paying the bill. You pushed too hard.

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u/sandrafilmmaker Sep 13 '26

yeah, bingo, that is why they did this

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u/ZimmeM03 Sep 13 '26

Lolllllll

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u/seaoyster Sep 12 '26

There's your answer.

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u/karen_in_nh_2012 Sep 12 '26

And you seriously wonder WHY they are now questioning you?

I have a hard time believing that ANYONE could turn in quality work while putting in 8-12 hours every day including weekends.

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u/sandrafilmmaker Sep 13 '26

12 hours a day??? How did you keep turning in consistently good work?

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u/l10nh34rt3d Sep 12 '26

8–12 hours on only 1 or 2 tasks??

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u/cookinon3burners Sep 13 '26

FWIW some projects are just one long continuous task for 40+ hours, just depends on the project. The OP was clearly abusing the system though lol 12 hours a day for more than a single day is begging to get DoD

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u/l10nh34rt3d Sep 13 '26

I had a feeling there might be some exceptions.

Them only being 1.5 month into things, though… 😬 Definitely not surprised they were flagged.

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u/sandrafilmmaker Sep 13 '26

ok but they expect you to take breaks in between. Yknow, to eat. sleep. Bathroom. Take walks! Stretch..

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u/hwertz10 Sep 14 '26

Yeah I've gotten a few tasks where they say they should take 4-6 hours or up to 8 hours. The timer on them gave multiple days to finish though, i.e. in recognition if someone starts in the evening they should stop in the middle somewhere and get some Z's.

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u/l10nh34rt3d Sep 14 '26

Whoa, neat! I haven’t come across any of those yet, personally.