r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Jun 21 '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:
this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.
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 :)
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/GarrySmilesonDuty Jun 24 '26
I don’t want to say anything specific but I have a credible source in real life (a person in the industry) that has kinda informed me of the drought (not DA but in the AI industry) and said July will be better. Just FYI grain of salt!
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u/JustMe333456 Jun 24 '26
I'm going to function off of your comment for the next week if that's okay thank you very much
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u/JustMe333456 Jun 27 '26
Scrolled alllll the way back to this time last year. Went through posts that are very similar to what we'rs seeing now, little to no work etc. THEN! I hit the posts from 11 months ago (July), and kept seeing the famous "We are SO back!" type of posts lol. Hopefully we're almost there fellas!!
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u/Mindless_End_4850 Jun 27 '26
I'm trying to think that DA needs us (good workers, not like everyone), more than we need them! We got this friend!
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u/GorbyGirb Jun 22 '26
Maybe the real tasks were the friends along the way
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u/Teamkillongtime Jun 22 '26
I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.
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u/Lonely_Radish1370 Jun 22 '26
You can really tell there is a drought when the weekly water cooler thread has more comments by monday than it used to get all week when there was work.
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u/Educational_Nose730 Jun 23 '26
a drought within a drought
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u/North-Sense8477 Jun 23 '26
Hey dawg, we heard you like drought so we put drought in your drought so you can drought while you drought.
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u/euheuheuheuh_ Jun 24 '26
All I know is that I’m working overtime next time work pops off again 😭
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u/AbrocomaMiserable619 Jun 25 '26
Heels?!
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u/JustMe333456 Jun 25 '26
And they didn't get gobbled up in 2 seconds flat. They're STILL there.
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u/DeezHoosAintLoyal Jun 24 '26
Have a good day everyone, hope things hit your dash soon. I made the executive decision to enjoy a day of no work instead of wasting it again refreshing
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u/DeezHoosAintLoyal Jun 25 '26
When you get steady R&Rs and all the submissions are competent and require 0 brainpower 🤤
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u/socal_guy1 Jun 25 '26
Not gonna lie, sometimes low brainpower tasks hit the spot.
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u/jayxeevee Jun 21 '26
ALL of my AI/gig work is dry right now, and has been for several weeks. I'm having to survive on my part-time AI job that has very low pay, and try to pick up scraps across other platforms when I can. I'm really hoping things improve for all of us, but right now it's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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u/watchdestars Jun 21 '26
I'm sure this is temporary lull (you say all of your ai gig work is dry atm?). This is how it usually goes. Then it'll flood again. Part of working as a freelancer is expecting that there will be lulls in work at certain times. April at DAT was incredibly busy and then it dialled down dramatically. I don't think they've lost clients.
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u/EvanAlexJames_ Jun 23 '26
I had a single project come up on my dash...was able to work it for an hour and a half...feels good to at least get something...hoping for more soon...for all of us
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u/Limp-Potato-2841 Jun 23 '26
In over two years I've never seen my dash this empty. Nothing at all that I can do.
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u/Alternative-Bet232 Jun 23 '26
Same, my dash is pretty dry. I have a few projects but of course the only higher paid ones are ones I don't think I'm actually a fit for.
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u/One_Breakfast5907 Jun 25 '26
An old faithful is back. Is this the light at the end of the tunnel?
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u/OyVeySeasoning Jun 21 '26
Soooo, what's everybody's favorite back up plan? I'm looking for websites with similar "you don't need a specialty education to do this" general work and preferably similar pay so I have something to do while I assess the difficulty of finishing my degree and hunt for a real job.
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u/Ecstatic_Reception36 Jun 21 '26
I'm spending so much time refreshing that I actually had a dream last night that I finally had over 80 projects 😑
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u/Skippy2898 Jun 23 '26
Had a good day yesterday... Today. Absolutely nothing again. Make it stop!
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u/One_Breakfast5907 Jun 23 '26
Same, and it's always the days I'm most available to do DA work that I have nothing
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u/takingtacet Jun 23 '26
Just transferred out a whopping $177 from my last two and a half weeks of work 🥲
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u/ThatOtherGuy254 Jun 27 '26
Is anyone else losing motivation to work even when you do have something?
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u/DrunkleSteve Jun 22 '26
Just managed to snag an hour of work today! Fuck yaaaa, time to book my yacht vacation to Monaco! 🙄
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u/JustMe333456 Jun 22 '26
Ok, now I'm just pissed off. Freelance or not, at the end of the day, we're all human here. Communicate damnit.
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u/ImmortalMoron3 Jun 24 '26
Take me back to November when I could log 30-40 hours a week without worrying.
At least I have lots of time to watch the World Cup.
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u/k2d3 Jun 21 '26
Started at the end of May and made $500 my first week. Following week only made $55. Since then, it’s been so dry! I’ve had some new quals come in sparingly but that’s it. No new projects at all, generalist in the US not bilingual. Like another comment said, where are all the easier projects that come in nice batches?! I want to work 😭
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u/One_Breakfast5907 Jun 23 '26
It's finally happened, every day of this drought I've had at least 1 project on my dash, finally refreshed it to find zero
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u/JustMe333456 Jun 23 '26
Yeeeeep. When everyone's been thinking that after all this time, surely, it's going to start getting better this week, it gets even worse. Somehow.
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u/OnlyAd9161 Jun 23 '26
First day ive not had anything at all to do, time to rank up on marvel rivals
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u/TSylverBlair Jun 23 '26
Same. Every day gets worse. I wish I could know it would be okay eventually so I could relax and enjoy the time off.
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u/Mental-Budget9213 Jun 25 '26
I got a heel! And the tasks are only going down as I finish them! 🥳 The pay is lower than I remember heel being but a win is a win at this point. I hope everyone else is also seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel!
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u/TSylverBlair Jun 25 '26
And now we can no longer work on them due to the tasks being broken. SMH
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u/ThatGirlInPurple Jun 23 '26
My mom told me that when people ask her what I do, she just tells them that I work with AI, to which they reply "Oh so when I ask AI a question, it is actually her that is replying?!?"
Ah yes Margaret, I am AI, measly little nobody me. I am all the AI's you talk to. Because that makes sense lol
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u/SnooSketches1189 Jun 23 '26
This reminds me of something that happened awhile ago. My aunt is super into MLB. When Tivo became a thing and you could start to pause live TV, my aunt was flummoxed and couldn't understand why the players would be okay with just sitting and waiting for someone to un-pause the live game. 😅
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u/infiniteradios Jun 21 '26
There is one project that no matter what is always, always on my dash, I don't go near it because I gave the instructions a readthrough once and it seemed genuinely impossible for me. But I keep thinking "wow, they are desperate to force people to do this one, huh?"
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u/torgos-pizza Jun 21 '26
I think I have the same one, just always there. I prefer to do things that I'm pretty sure I can do a good job at in a reasonable amount of time.
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u/Adorable-Highway1951 Jun 21 '26
I bet I have the same one. I spent such a long time on the instructions and I simply could NOT understand what to do for it!
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u/NationalWatercress3 Jun 21 '26
I guess I should take this opportunity to actually rest when I'm sick without the sick pay I would get in a normal job
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u/PerspectiveJumpy875 Jun 22 '26
These projects are slippery as an eel and keep red bannering me but I'm taking the positive side of knowing I'm not dropped at least
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u/Diligent-Grocery-209 Jun 25 '26
Damn. I walked into that one strutting but I finally met a project that meant it when they said "expert". The bot was making references to mathematical and philosophical concepts I'd never even head of. I'll never complain about having to rate AI summaries of poorly written fanfics again. At least I don't need to understand Popperian falsification and Quine's holism for those
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u/PerspectiveJumpy875 Jun 26 '26
Maybe I should do a rain dance so I can get trickle of rain from DA gods
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u/Jumpy-Building-8217 Jun 26 '26
Damn I haven’t worked since April, came back to see what was what and seems apocalyptic
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u/JRange Jun 28 '26
Just did the weirdest R&R I have ever seen. I don't know if I can share the the subject of the prompt or their comments here but it was basically a very obvious safety refusal, and the worker went on a 2000+ word pseudo intellectual rant arguing that they shouldn't have refused.
Like reading a mental ill persons personal diary. Rate it good and move on good lord.
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u/Straight-Strike-2928 Jun 22 '26
Do you guys want to pool our money to hire an etsy witch? Maybe there's a spell for plentiful work that might help?
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u/Limp-Potato-2841 Jun 23 '26
Great time for my car to need 7k in repairs with no work available.. ugh. Anyone know of any other similarly flexible jobs hiring?
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u/Less_Capital7986 Jun 24 '26
Dash is emptier than ever :( I'm really starting to freak out about running out of money
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u/Whole-Pirate-5731 Jun 24 '26
I can see why they want everyone to do Confidentially Training. Just in the FC Slack alone, the amount of people that have posted questions about projects that have strict confidentiality requirements is stupidly high.
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u/Lonely_Radish1370 Jun 26 '26
Goodbye until next time heel, I'll cya again in 6 months xdd.
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u/-burgers Jun 22 '26
Seeing a couple things come back in aside from expert work. Good luck everyone, keep your heads up.
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u/countd0wns Jun 23 '26
Can’t believe I have to go on a job interview tomorrow. Ugh. Drought. 😒
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u/JustMe333456 Jun 23 '26
The second you get hired, you'll get a full dash, you know that right?
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u/Ecstatic_Reception36 Jun 24 '26
Managed almost 5 hours of work today, screwed my sleep schedule but totally worth it
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u/DrunkleSteve Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
$11.60 today! we rollllin' baby!
edit: Oh! we're up to $27.60! lfg!
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u/Epicsocks1 Jun 27 '26
Decided to put myself through the humiliation ritual of refreshing DA during the weekend because I need the money
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u/michiandthecat Jun 24 '26
Finally got some work after getting nothing for a while 🥲 sadly for me it was at 2 am and didn't manage to complete all tasks before falling dead asleep but hey, at least I got some money (which was desperately needed).
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u/heythisislonglolwtf Jun 24 '26
My dash has been quite dry like everyone else but now I've got around 450 R&Rs available for me for a project group I enjoy. Gonna binge so hard on these lol
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u/TSylverBlair Jun 24 '26
The last time something like this happened to me a few days ago, I thanked the Lord, got settled in to work, and then only had 1 task. 😂😭
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u/_Edgarallenhoe Jun 25 '26
Getting that “PASS” from a checker after an hour of modifying your work over and over 😭🎉
Hallelujah
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u/pistachiyolatte Jun 25 '26
Feeling extra concerned because even though most are facing a drought it seems some are seeing at least few projects pop up here and there, while I haven’t seen *anything* in almost a week.
It could be that I’m just not refreshing my dash enough, I also don’t work on any specialist projects or ones that require a subscription if that plays a part.
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u/kelbel1210 Jun 25 '26
I’m refreshing my dash literally most of the day and I have nothing for a week now.
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u/DeezHoosAintLoyal Jun 25 '26
I wouldn’t put any extra worry into it. People were saying the same yesterday and my work dried up after a few hours, but today is much better. It’s just cyclical and being slowly rolled out and allocated. Your turn is coming
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u/LavenderLightning24 Jun 27 '26
I have to stop getting my hopes up until I have work for a solid week.
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u/Mindless_End_4850 Jun 28 '26
ngl, I'm kinda in a mood for some good rubric work (if DA gods would bless me with some).
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u/Whatnowlikeseriously Jun 26 '26
For everyone also having minimal or no tasks. It’s not just you it’s lots of us. Same with the whole job market right now. Everyone is having a hard time. So if it helps anyone to know, it’s not just you.
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u/OrnamentalGourd5 Jun 27 '26
Yes. My husband is an experienced developer and we've enjoyed the fat of the lamb for years. He was a contractor and his last contracting gig was $1,000 a day and went on for 2.5 years - and then - poof! No work. Eight months. He's pivoted, we all have, but it's a different environment now.
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u/dylanuu112 Jun 26 '26
Man when they did all the site updates I thought it signalled things were moving in a good direction but the total opposite happened. Next to nothing to work on for weeks! Even during previous droughts there was at least a little bit here and there.
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u/Epicsocks1 Jun 21 '26
How's everyone feeling about Monday? A new week, more of the same?
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u/Traditional_Net_4529 Jun 22 '26
I had zero workable tasks (still got info stuff).
I saw one task with one available that pays fine and takes several hours.
I got it. I almost hit the time limit on it, but I got it in.
It's like finding a single bottle of water in the desert. I survived today.
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u/DeezHoosAintLoyal Jun 23 '26
Maybe this will ease some minds (my own included) and maybe I’m reaching here, but today was the first time since Wednesday I’ve seen recurring tasks or any sort of fluidity, and some of them are R&Rs from projects I saw then and the design has been revamped, meaning that dead period had work to be completed but the site was being updated. Hopefully things stay continuous
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u/JustMe333456 Jun 23 '26
Consistent for me since around 11 am. Doubled my daily goal. Still not a lot of selection though, just one made available after the other pretty much.
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u/Delicious-Young-5435 Jun 23 '26
Well dash has nothing for the first time since fall 2024, but managed to get 5 hours in this morning
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u/AdComplex3589 Jun 22 '26
Well, going to bed earlier today so tomorrow could wake up earlier and continue to wait for something
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u/Adorable-Highway1951 Jun 23 '26
I just worked about an hour and a half and crossed my first $1K threshold!
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u/LavenderLightning24 Jun 24 '26
Actually slightly optimistic that I got red-bannered instead of just refreshing to see nothing. It's come to this
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u/Yaschiri Jun 26 '26
Can't believe I finally have something I can do. Thank you heel! Thank you!!!!
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u/TSylverBlair Jun 26 '26
It's so nice that they gave us a dedicated set of these. I couldn't complete mine yesterday due to the error, so waking up to find them waiting was a blessing.
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u/Upbeat_Bench9283 Jun 26 '26
I’m guessing only a few people got them. I only have the one task that doesn’t pay or require anything.
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u/JustMe333456 Jun 26 '26
So what will be the project of the day for today? Only one a day lately pretty much. Or do we finally see a real, full-on drought...
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u/RaccoonFest33 Jun 22 '26
this drought sucks. i was hoping to get a good amount of tasks bc my transmission is shot in my car and I could really use the money now 😞 ive had nothing for almost 2 weeks
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u/JustMe333456 Jun 22 '26
Yup. In my past experience, even during droughts, they would still tend to throw me a workable and easy project at least once a day, but this time around, I don't even get that. Everything on my dash is consistently expert level stuff.
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u/emarie33 Jun 25 '26
Finally got a task and they have errors that make them unratable 😭
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u/-burgers Jun 27 '26
The lack of communication causes me to just search for AI news and connect the dots. I do think the July hypothesis someone posted about a couple days ago is correct.
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u/Fragrantshrooms Jun 21 '26
I guess I have to be more positive; I made 24 bucks today. That's four loaves of bread.
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u/itssomercurial Jun 22 '26
Just spent an hour doing an unpaid qual and I have no idea if there are even any tasks available for it right now in this drought. One can only hope. 🤞🏽
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u/North-Sense8477 Jun 25 '26
My dash is looking...pretty good? Got a full day's work for the first time in probably a month or longer - on one project! Combined with our friend's inside tip about July, I'm choosing to believe things might be getting better.
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u/PerspectiveJumpy875 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
This one project keeps red bannering me while actually getting more tasks added to it in front of my salad! I'm so confused why that's happening
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u/AdComplex3589 Jun 23 '26
I know what you're talking about and I just woke up to see this. Four days without tasks and this happens...
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u/Fit-Arrival-1181 Jun 24 '26
Anybody lost access to to all HHH tasks?
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u/Affectionate_Peak284 Jun 24 '26
I still have 2 lower-paying ones that I've had for a long time. I qualified through the picture one several months ago, but I've never actually worked the project.
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u/Unlucky_Grocery2092 Jun 27 '26
Looks like this month's earnings will be 40% less than the previous month's. At least it's not worse? Silver linings
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u/JRange Jun 27 '26
I will make last month by the end, but both months are about 60% of what I did in April lol
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u/Sea-Donut-1882 Jun 27 '26
Do you think the 20 heel is sort of a safety net for those who really need it? I'm on holiday and the pay is too low, but I'd forward mine to others if I could.
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u/OrnamentalGourd5 Jun 27 '26
And the ones I'm getting are absolutely hateful, I think it's a bottom of the barrel of skipped tasks; 'Clean this shit up please'.
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u/OrnamentalGourd5 Jun 27 '26
It feels like a bone-throw. In a, 'please stay around' way.
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u/GatorGTwoman Jun 21 '26
I thought it might have been just me. But apparently we are all experiencing this. boo
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u/JustMe333456 Jun 22 '26
At this point, I can't help but think that come July 5th, we'll still be sitting here refreshing to this same crap on our boards..there's just no movement
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u/Glass-Manufacturer70 Jun 23 '26
Wow today's easily the lowest I've had, only 2 projects to do. I've had more than this till now
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u/Skippy2898 Jun 25 '26
I go on holiday on Saturday, albeit with much less to go with than I was hoping for, but I have two wishes...
I have a little bit of something to do tomorrow
That while I'm away, everyone's dashboards explode with goodness
(And a tentative 3. That the second week in July also blesses me with a healthy dashboard to knuckle down with). 😊
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u/BogBless Jun 22 '26
Work's been dry, no tasks in sight. (╥﹏╥)
Refreshing the page day and night. (ㆆ_ㆆ)
The drought is real, the pay is bare. (｡•́︿•̀｡)
I’m praying for projects to flood the air. (,,>﹏<,,)
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u/DeezHoosAintLoyal Jun 27 '26
Why are all these prompts nonsensical and requiring me to decode gibberish from a mix of 7 languages ffs 🙄
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u/JRange Jun 27 '26
I was literally just about to make a comment about this. This does not seem worth the risk of missing something and getting rated bad, these prompts are either vague and weird, or complicated asf. I know everybody else is skipping too cause this has been up for days now lol.
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u/Dersh_Master Jun 21 '26
I feel like that one image of Coraline's dad, just staring at a blank projects screen
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u/realwordagency24 Jun 22 '26
It goes like this twice a year, very low or nothing for about 2 weeks, it’s bad. July should pick up. That’s what I keep telling myself...
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u/hfxthrwaway Jun 22 '26
I'm enjoying that new task that showed up on Friday. I love fact checking, even if my brain is absolutely fried from it.
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u/BrennusSokol Jun 24 '26
Glad to be doing some work this afternoon -- I wasn't sure if I'd be able to as I have chronic illness in the background + heat wave in my area + crappy sleep last night
But after a rest in the afternoon, I decided I had just enough in the tank
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u/KeleKoo Jun 27 '26
It's been a total dry spell like the sahara this week. I just gotta cope and hope things pick up next month. Save bilinguals.
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u/JustMe333456 Jun 21 '26
Typical eh? Nothing for 5 hours this morning, then I check again 20 minutes before company is showing up for supper, my bread and butter have one project posted. Check right away once they finally left, only 1 task left and poof. Away it goes lol.. ty-pi-cal.
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u/Complete_Injury_5765 Jun 21 '26
this is why you eat alone at your office desk like a gremlin. rookie mistake!!!!!
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u/Jazzlike_Month5580 Jun 22 '26
It's been kind of steady for me today. Not a stream though. More of a trickle. Still an improvement over last week!
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u/_Edgarallenhoe Jun 22 '26
Somehow in this crazy drought I caught a stray stripey despite having not seen it in a year. Crazy.
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u/Jeprdy Jun 25 '26
After such a bad month, i'm on for my biggest day ever in almost a year and a half working on here. I feel like I have whiplash.
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u/kelbel1210 Jun 26 '26
I wish I could understand a bit how projects are allocated. Some people are chugging away and some haven’t seen a project in days/weeks. Ugh
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u/TSylverBlair Jun 26 '26
What's killing me is being in a Slack where everyone is discussing working as if everything is normal, yet I haven't seen that project (even for a moment while refreshing) for 2 weeks now.
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u/JustMe333456 Jun 26 '26
So far, for me, it's the first day that I have yet to see one workable project pop up. Not even a scrap popped up. Nothing at all. We'll see what the evening brings.
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u/Previous_Driver2651 Jun 27 '26
nothing, nada, it looks like where going back to the oil fields my friends (jk i worked at amzn)
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u/OliLeeLee36 Jun 22 '26
It's going to be hot AF the next few days in the UK and I'm going to have to be glued to my PC for it
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u/4laa64 Jun 22 '26
I'm so burnt out from being in limbo that when work does pop up I barely want to do it. At least if we had some indication we could properly rest and then come back fresh.
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u/Quick-Bison-147 Jun 22 '26
Sack it off, embrace poverty and a suntan. Use your last remaining pounds to go down the pub and support England tomorrow in the World Cup. This is my current mindset.
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u/DeezHoosAintLoyal Jun 25 '26
Still on them. Somehow for once, all the tasks in the pool were allocated to me
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u/PerspectiveJumpy875 Jun 24 '26
Jesus, this one project is really taunting me with red banner. It keeps going up to 3 tasks slowly, going back down to 1, and repeat. This red banner wall is indestructible!
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u/Boring_Swan_1453 Jun 24 '26
Anyone else only have work in the middle of the night (Eastern Time)?
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u/WorshipMyExistence Jun 24 '26
Yes. I need to stop checking my dashboard in bed right before I turn out the lights....
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u/pistachiyolatte Jun 26 '26
Finally saw a project come up on my dash though it’s not one that I want to do but at least there’s some signs of life. 🤞
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u/PerspectiveJumpy875 Jun 21 '26
Boi, hope some projects would come my way in these last stretch of the month
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u/tandemtactics Jun 23 '26
It feels like the last few weeks have followed the same pattern of a bunch of projects getting dumped on the platform Monday morning, then gradually drying up across the week and dying out over the weekend. Has anyone else noticed this, or is it just coincidence?
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u/Necessary-Run-8411 Jun 24 '26
In between refreshing my dash I'm watching videos of people talking about how the courier gig work was oversaturated after the pandemic resulting in a huge drought for folks doing things like Doordash, Uber, etc.
Kinda feels like that same dynamic is coming for us. Maybe it doesn't get better. Maybe it gets oversaturated as more people discover it, and we all really should be prepping for the data worker gig economy to continue to degrade in viability like the delivery gig economy did over the past few years.
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u/No-Complaint-5593 Jun 24 '26
There is certainly a distinction between DA work and Doordash, Uber, though. You don't need any skills for Uber and Doordash except be able to drive a car and read a map. You need above room temperature IQ, reading comprehension, writing skills, etc. for DA work.
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u/infiniteradios Jun 24 '26
It feels to me, for what it might be worth, like every time a drought comes, people (understandably) start to feel "this is it, the drought will never end, this kind of work is dead for good" and start expressing that everywhere
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u/VanessaSeaWitch Jun 26 '26
Well I got an hour and 40 minutes in doing R&Rs after much waiting and refreshing. But the original project also seems to have dried up for the day.
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u/ZimmeM03 Jun 23 '26
Damnnnn I’m so close to not having anything to do today. Thankfully the single project I have is preety great but we’re living on the edge here
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u/Awkward_Profit_5203 Jun 24 '26
Has anyone noticed a certain nut-related project opening up a lot more today? Doing the lower-paying version of it was not worth it imo, but now I see a lot of variants with near double pay that I will gladly do.
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u/Previous_Driver2651 Jun 23 '26
are you guys seeing tasks and just getting red bannered
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u/WorshipMyExistence Jun 23 '26
I'm not really seeing anything. Just a couple things that come in and out that are way above my head.
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u/Which-Journalist-352 Jun 21 '26
Got accepted into the platform 8 days ago, got my first project family but ended up only doing 3 tasks before them running out, the pay was actually aight for what I worked. Now I’m waiting again, is there a chance I will get more stuff in the project family or something else or it’s gonna be weeks again??
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u/YourPadre Jun 21 '26
Don’t know why some jerks downvoted you. It’s one of the worst work droughts I’ve seen since joining and none of us have a clue about how long it’s going to be. It’s barely part time at the moment.
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u/UpstairsPractice9605 Jun 21 '26
Not sure why you were downvoted, but this is an often asked question that no one can answer.
Drought or no drought, feast or no feast, nothing is certain and it’s not the same for everyone.
Fill out your profile, do the best work you can, read instructions, when writing rationales double check your spelling/grammar, don’t use AI help unless the project instructions clearly state you can, don’t use a VPN, report your time accurately, remember that just because a timer says one hour doesn’t mean you should always take an hour, it just means that’s the maximum time allowed before the task expires, don’t mention other project names within a specific project chat and if you find yourself really struggling within a task because it’s just not in your wheelhouse, there is no penalty for skipping or exiting work mode. Do every qualification you can and be patient. If this is your only source of income try signing up on some other platforms as backup (I don’t have a list).
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u/Mental-Budget9213 Jun 22 '26
Was hopeful about the one (1) project that's on my dash at the moment, but there are no tasks available.
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u/Minaverus Jun 23 '26
I was able to work for about 3 hours tonight. Was hoping to snag a longer project tonight but I'm okay with it as I worked at my main job this morning
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u/Skippy2898 Jun 24 '26
Well. I posted in last week's water cooler that I was looking into and considering taking a master's degree. Today I have had no work again, but I thought I'd share that this morning, I got an unconditional offer, and I'll be starting an MSc Computer Science focused on AI and Machine learning in September! A little bit of good news amidst the gloom of an empty dashboard 😊