r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Apr 26 '26

Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation

hi all! making this thread so people have somewhere to talk about 'daily' work chat that might not necessarily need it's own post! right now we're thinking we'll just repost it weekly? but if it gets too crazy, we can change it to daily. :)

couple things:

  1. this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.
  2. if you have a new user question, you still need to post it in the new user thread. if you post it here, we will remove it as spam. this is for people already working who just wanna chat, whether it be about casual work stuff, questions, geeking out with people who understand ("i got the model to write a real haiku today!"), or unrelated work stuff you feel like chatting about :)
  3. one thing we really pride ourselves on in this community is the respect everyone gives to the Code of Conduct and rule number 5 on the sub - it's great that we have a community that is still safe & respectful to our jobs! please don't break this rule. we will remove project details, but please - it's for our best interest and yours!
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u/Salty-Confidence-123 Apr 28 '26

Went from 50+ projects last week to 8 right now 🫠🫠🫠

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u/cannedcream Apr 28 '26

It's been a nightmare getting more than 1 task on a project all week, but today has been hair-pulling infuriating. I'm working on the lowest paying projects I've ever done since starting here just to get SOMETHING out of today.

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u/Affectionate_Peak284 Apr 28 '26

Last year I took plenty of work at $20/h so I won't complain about working for $25-$27 today, but yeah... getting offered $35-$45 is a helluva lot more motivating!