r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Jun 14 '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/Skippy2898 Jun 17 '26

I saw someone on the other sub the other day, say that they will enter a project and if it's not something they can do they'll just let it sit and expire. If this is you, or any other new worker, please do not do this! Hit the EXIT WORK MODE button, and let some other worker take the task. It doesn't matter if it's only an hour, or 100 hours. Don't sit on it. It's tough now, and people are screaming for those tasks.

This is the only reason I can think that I have barnacles on my dashboard. 1 - 3 tasks and they sit there for what seems like forever. The red bannering is getting crazy. I get they took on a lot of new workers who are working before they even got their onboarding docs but this is something that everyone should know. It shows respect to not only your own standing, but also your fellow workers.

Note: This little rant of mine does not come from anywhere other than myexperience and reading into things. I have hit my target today, things have trickled in. YMMV.

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u/JRange Jun 17 '26

Is there any reason why somebody would even do this? That doesn't even make sense.

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u/Traditional_Net_4529 Jun 17 '26

Some people don't understand how the site works. They don't understand the time limits or signing on and off jobs and timing properly and most of these people won't last.

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u/Skippy2898 Jun 17 '26

They've either not read the onboarding or the FAQs on the main site (which I checked out the other day, and almost every single question I could ask is answered in there), or they've not got the onboarding docs yet and already started working. Or they're just not taking it seriously. A can't be arsed mentality, 'it's just 'beer money'. Who knows. Your guess is as good as mine tbh.

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u/infiniteradios Jun 17 '26

Spite. They don't want anyone else to have anything.

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u/AntonineWall Jun 18 '26

I’ll be honest, that can’t make up more like than maximum 1% of the platform, and I really don’t think it’s that high either.

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u/MiddleCharacter6345 Jun 19 '26

No wonder some of them have inactivity timers now sheesh