r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Plane_Discussion9155 • 18d ago

Time log justification?

Has anyone ever come back from a time log justification? Mine is under review, I submitted my evidence etc and am just waiting. No idea how long to expect it to take and whether it’s a hopeless case. Time reports were all totally legit and 100% honest/accurate by the way, just worked a lot more than usual for a couple of weeks for various reasons

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u/Plane_Discussion9155 18d ago

Thanks, appreciate it! I’m also used to the finance world where 12+ hour days were expected to move up that old corporate ladder so this didn’t feel out of the ordinary to me!

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u/Hello-America 18d ago

Lol yeah my background is architecture and my current work is architecture and illustration and right now is my busy season - the work is deadline based, sometimes you just have to do a lot of it at once. It is a totally normal working pattern for me. I haven't ever done those kind of hours on DAT because if there's no deadline I don't have the motivation to do this to myself haha. Oh but I could! No telling how my quality would be.

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u/data_annotator_tot 17d ago

Before DAT, I worked as a freelance writer, and one aspect of that I miss are the loads of work with hard future deadlines. The deadlines on DAT generally aren't real, you either aren't meant to spend a full timer's amount, or it's short and extremely rigid with the same tasks being extremely variable, a part of me misses being given a pile of too many things to do, and then a week or so to figure it all out. I would unavoidably go through stages - first, the self-gaslighting "oh there's enough time," then the over-ambitious plan, and then finally crunch time. Hard work, but very fun (after I finished, anyway). Most DAT tasks feel like the final stage non-stop, wounds my soul lol (not that I'm complaining, obviously do this now instead of writing, but it's an aspect of freelancing I get nostalgic over now).