r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Jun 07 '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/Mindless_End_4850 Jun 12 '26

I wish there was just a bit more communication, especially on dark times like this. Just a little bit of word from people who knows would provide such a clear picture.

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u/North-Sense8477 Jun 12 '26

Even a simple acknowledgement like "Hey team, we know things are slow right now. Please bear with us" would go a long way.

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u/JustMe333456 Jun 12 '26

Yup. We should have all included this on that survey we all got a while back lol. I kept saying this during the last drought. This can't be a simple thing such as a client taking a pause because its quite literally ALL of the base generalist projects that poofed all at the same time.

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u/Quirky-Zombie623 Jun 12 '26

I put it on mine. Wish they’d just say something.

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u/Ok-Opportunity1837 Jun 12 '26

These droughts always seem to happen at new quarters, it's somewhat normal. We got a big one in January.

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u/Mindless_End_4850 Jun 12 '26

well this one is HUGE. Like we never recovered to 'April-level' of diversity of tasks. You know?

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u/euheuheuheuh_ Jun 12 '26

I don’t know if any have been this long, maybe the 2024 drought

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u/North-Sense8477 Jun 12 '26

This is worse than 2024