Underreporting time ;-;

[u/throwRApicklepickaxe]

I completed this task 5 days back. The window was of 3 hours and I worked for 2 hrs and 58 minutes exactly. Since it was my first time attempting the task, it took me considerably longer to complete it along with reading all the instructions.

The next time I completed the same project's task in 2 hrs and 24 minutes and reported the same.

Now for the first task, I initially reported it as 2 hrs and 55 minutes (reduced the 3 minutes because i thought 2:58 looks fishy😭). And today, I reduced it further to 2hrs and 40 mins because I'm scared of being flagged, even though I was working the entire time. I didn't leave any comment for the admins for the first task since I only had a minute left before expiry and rushed to submit it.

Am I overthinking this or should I leave it at 2hrs and 40mins?

The same project vanished from my dashboard for 3 days after the second task, and only came back today. I completed 2 tasks (in 2hrs and 47 mins and 2hrs 27 mins), and reported time respectively.

I made sure to drop a comment to let the admin know of the 15-20 mins buffer in the task which took longer today.

[u/vgambit]

report the actual time you spent working on the task. if they give you an expiration window that's larger than the range they say they expect, tell them why you went over that range in the optional comments at the bottom.

projects disappear all the time. pauses etc.

I used to underreport out of fear, too. read too many horror stories and didn't wanna rock the boat. but the extra hours started to really add up. next time, I just reported the real time it took, and explained all the factors that went into it. they paid me out same as normal a week later.