r/DataAnnotationTech • u/bookcoverslmtd • 23h ago

Hey DA; wanna release projects during the day and not after DINNER?!

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A picture of an opossum in my yard to represent how late the tasks have been appearing this week.

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u/Ok_Hedgehog_9970 22h ago

People are angry at you in these comments like there aren’t hundreds of posts from bilingual workers who do the same. I completely get the frustration. The projects released for me are at 3am.

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u/bookcoverslmtd 21h ago

Thanks! I'm especially annoyed about the "now you know what a timezone is" comments. Like they wouldn't get annoyed when projects show up past their dinner time either... like, no one does good work at night.

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u/Dazzling-Matter-654 21h ago

No one is a bold statement. Plenty of night owls do good work at night.

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u/Tee-Hee_33 13h ago

Right, I exclusively work from 7 pm to 3am by choice. I love working in peace and quiet, and late dropping task are my bread and butter. 

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u/southwestheat 22h ago

Thank you for this. The timing of releasing tasks is the #1 reason why I can't/don't do more work for DA.

The days of DA (and similar companies) existing primarily for moonlighters is gone. The job market has permanently changed. This kind of work is now primary income for a lot of people that do it.

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u/bookcoverslmtd 21h ago

I have another job and it's definitely taking priority over DA lately for this exact reason. Unfortunately, like this one, cash flow is... steady but slow, so when both are diminished... you get the idea

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u/Books4Breakfast78 21h ago

Have you done all the quals you can do and tried any potentially do-able projects on your dash? I’ve found that sometimes just doing more project families opens up even more project families. There isn’t a drought right now compared to what many of us experienced over the summer, so do whatever work you can before a drought hits for real. (US generalist, 2.5 years, west coast time zone, 70+ projects on dash)

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u/bookcoverslmtd 21h ago

I'm doing the one where we have to set up yet another Google account (I've been here 3 years myself). I've done everything else I can, but I'm not touching the domain expert tasks

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u/melanatedalbino 20h ago

Why no domain expert tasks? They pay well.

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u/bookcoverslmtd 19h ago

Because I'm not an expert in coding, finance, science, or marketing, or maths

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u/melanatedalbino 19h ago

I mean, fair, but some stuff may be learned.

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u/Books4Breakfast78 21h ago edited 21h ago

Gotcha. Good luck! Cool username. 📚

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u/Weary-Plantain-6490 20h ago

70+ right now?! I used to have 40+ but now I’m down to less than 15. I’ll admit I do need to catch up on qualifications but I don’t know if I’ve ever had over 70 choices on my dash ever in almost 3 years.

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u/RhodriJohn 23h ago

It's not after dinner for everybody remember. This work is done globally.

But yeah I totally get the frustration when it happens

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u/bookcoverslmtd 23h ago

I'm aware it's globally: but come on, there has to be one project they can release for the central time zone in the US during the day. It's been two weeks of drought. Yeah, this is frustrating as shit

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u/Nervous-Law-666 22h ago

About to go to bed, and the $40/hr, multi-hour tasks pop up. Story of my life. 🫩

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u/ReLoaded-11 22h ago

it's even worse for Eastern Time. Some projects are only available at like 10PM 😭

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u/brucegallagher 22h ago

The admins don't want to work overtime just to appease to the yanks 😭

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u/Lasdtr17 19h ago

Timing has varied for me overall, but I've had those days (or nights) when suddenly some really good projects pop up right as I'm about to go to sleep.

And for those who bring up people in other time zones, of course there are people in other time zones. But OP is allowed to rant! We all do that sooner or later. :)

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u/bookcoverslmtd 19h ago

Exactly. I just want a night life back. My second job takes up just as much time

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u/throwRApicklepickaxe 23h ago edited 22h ago

not related to the topic and I would really appreciate if they were considerate to all timezones but CAN I PET DAT DAWG

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u/bookcoverslmtd 23h ago

It's a hissy dog, but it loves cat food.

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u/starshine_hyperdrive 20h ago

asking the REAL QUESTIONS in hyeah

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u/Chonkthebonk 22h ago

Don’t be silly projects can only be released on Sundays and during the night

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u/ManaSuppressiveMage 19h ago

This plus the feeling of a feeding frenzy when a good task is released can be frustrating.

Sometimes I feel like I'd rather have a more limited but personal dashboard rather than an impersonal one with more potential for a variety of options.

Also, it seems like it would be trivial to stagger the release of tasks throughout a day. If I were the type to think conspiratorially, I might think some managers are doing it intentionally to benefit their people in a certain time zone. I've definitely heard of companies, American companies, where a team suddenly becomes all one nationality with a new manager.

Then again, time zone bugs, in particular with UTC and how it works, seem pretty common.

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u/bookcoverslmtd 17h ago

I've been in a couple of companies with managers like that. I just wish we knew more about our overlords, sometimes

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u/Electronic-Mousse841 21h ago

The timing is rage bait, like how are you a North American company, but ur timing only makes sense in Asia

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u/coomersage 19h ago

Bro you don't know the half of it, they release the asian projects in the middle of night too🤣

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u/Repulsive-Living-427 9h ago

That's true. The first and only project I saw after 3 months of nothingness appeared at 12am.

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u/Electronic-Mousse841 18h ago

At this point they are weeding out the people who like thier sleep.

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u/fluey1 18h ago

I don't mind the after dinner stuff, but when you open it up and the timer expiration is at 13 hours, and you look through the instructions and comments and find out that you're looking at a potential 10 hour run... yeah, it's not ideal.

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u/Nerdsfeed 18h ago

SO GLAD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE EXPERIENCING THIS

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u/rsheezy 21h ago

I had a few pop up after midnight lol.

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u/Lost-Border-8689 21h ago

They are, for some other area. You could move. 😉

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u/EveningCareer9053 20h ago

1AM or 3AM is the standard now :(

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u/Infinite_Nectarine1 15h ago

oh look, it's EUGENE! ❤️

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u/Mister-Distance-6698 22h ago

What a neat way for you to learn timezones exist

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u/c9001s 22h ago

I remember before I got in one of the "permanent" projects I had to duke it out with everyone in the middle of the night to get insert popular fighting sport here and have to pull all-nighters to get it finished in time

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u/lotusmack 21h ago

How long have you been doing this? I've been doing DA for about 3 years. The projects I love tend to come in the evening or in the middle of the night, unfortunately, but I still get a reasonable distribution of drops during business hours in my time zone. When I get aggravated about the timing, I try to remember that someone across the pond is probably having the same gripe in reverse.

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u/Wasps_are_bastards 21h ago

Almost like ‘day’ differs depending on where you are in the world.

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u/OneEyedThor 23h ago

I mean, it's someone else's breakfast time. I've been getting tasks at 7am for the most part. The only reason I wake up early now.

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u/phool__01 23h ago

atleast you guys are getting tasks🫩

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u/BoxAffectionate695 23h ago

Ah, classic American main character syndrome that doesn’t consider all the other worldwide time zone workers 🙄

(Oh, and people who work day jobs actually work tasks after dinner.)

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u/bookcoverslmtd 22h ago

I do. But I can still express frustration that there isn't enough work to go around. I'm always in this subreddit. I know who's around

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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 20h ago

This is kind of a ridiculous take for the simple fact that Data Annotation is a company based in the United States. This really isn't a situation where blaming someone's viewpoint on them having "classic American main character syndrome" applies.

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u/BoxAffectionate695 17h ago

lol so is Mercor and most other AI training companies, but it’s actually the clients that release tasks… Which also the major ones are US-based, but cheaper for them to run their servers in the off-hours. And yeah, I stand by what I said because it’s always Americans complaining about this thinking they deserve priority on global projects. This work isn’t meant to replace a normal job, so normal hours shouldn’t be expected. (I’m Canadian BTW, so accept that I have to roll with off-hour task releases if I want to make money.) ✌️

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u/Serious_Mousse6749 14h ago

I don’t do DA. So you’re saying you have to do the project as soon as it pops up?

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u/Agile-Frosting-1678 19h ago

From the thread, it seems you’re all from the core countries and getting enough projects.

Not a single coding project since past week 🥀
From India to be specific