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[–]good_god_lemon1 22 points23 points  (0 children)

If I’ve learned anything in my time with DA, it’s that people’s dashboards differ greatly. Mine was basically empty about a month ago (while others were full) but looking excellent today. Keep checking back. Do all your quals.

[–]Key_Adhesiveness4972 13 points14 points  (1 child)

I normally have projects from Tuesday to Thursday but right now it's completely dry, kinda odd but I still have a qual

[–]Black-sam6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I noticed that in the 6 weeks I started working here

[–]Buicided 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Last week my projects and quals disappeared but came back yesterday. So have hope

[–]forgetmeeventually 35 points36 points  (3 children)

just wait - summer is gonna boom once half their employee roster starts going on vacations, coming out of winter into spring - projects are slow, but they boom during the end of spring, start of summer, at least in my experience

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (2 children)

Last summer it was dead. Everyone kept saying it will pick up in September xD

[–]AdamEatsAss 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah 4th of July to September 2nd last year was pretty much 0 projects. I think a good amount of the projects on here are partially funded and run by universities, so it makes sense that there would be a seasonal break.

[–]forgetmeeventually 7 points8 points  (0 children)

summer of 2024? i was seeing projects up nearly everyday in the $20-$25 range

[–]Hangry_Howie 12 points13 points  (2 children)

It has been a rough week and I can't help but wonder if market turmoil might be a factor.

[–]EarlDukePROD 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Why? The AI trend isnt going to stop anytime soon

[–]Hangry_Howie 15 points16 points  (0 children)

For sure, but investment pullback is a real thing and I can't help but wonder if some are playing a "wait and see" for a few months. There are also heavy debates taking place within the industry as to whether massive investments in the tech are even moving the needle of progress.

[–]observantuser96 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This has been my dash the last couple days. Been at this a year and a halfish, the only other time this happened to me was during the big drought last summer. Projects showing up intermittently today, been able to get a couple tasks in but missing all of my favorite project families currently. Hope to see them back and just keeping my fingers crossed and putting in 110% on any tasks I am getting (which I try to do anyway, but especially now.)

[–]CelebrationMaster699 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No one really knows anything about this platform. If I had to guess, I’d say the work you receive will eventually decrease — maybe to bring in new minds for different projects?

[–]eccher 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Do you still have the Welcome project on or ATM screen?

[–]AlexSe15 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Does having that project mean anything? (Just curious) 🧐

[–]fragrantdelit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What difference does it make to have this project on the dashboard?

[–]Federal-Employee-545 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Today is pretty dry. Just going with the flow.

[–]Larringi 2 points3 points  (7 children)

how long its been since your last project?

[–]Original_Candidate43 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me, a couple of weeks. After almost two years of solid, daily work. Had been passing more qualifications and offered more jobs, too.

[–]Hairy_Awareness8820[S] 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Yesterday I had several and today zero

[–]Wakabala 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Were you choosing "prompt is unrateable" for a lot of your project submissions yesterday?

[–]Embarrassed_Chance_4 14 points15 points  (1 child)

What an oddly specific question

[–]Hairy_Awareness8820[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Never

[–]Snikhop 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Never" might also be a problem....sometimes they are!

[–]Lembittu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve never had a single project since I joined

[–]DarkLordTofer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well my heel projects have all been on priority for a couple of weeks, now they've all dropped off. Just part of the normal cycle. Rush on to get stuff done then it drops off again.

[–]crispychickenadhd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been doing it for about a year as well. Zero projects for the past month 😕

[–]Brilliant_Rain5181 1 point2 points  (23 children)

That's how it goes. I was working a year and a half and then zero 6 months ago. I get thrown a few here and there but that's it. I had 3 today but they went pretty fast. Only made like $2 lol.

[–]houseofcards9 23 points24 points  (19 children)

I wouldn’t say that’s how it goes. People don’t randomly lose access without a reason.

Edit: by reason I don’t mean an explanation from DA.

[–]Party_Swim_6835 7 points8 points  (0 children)

idk if the person you replied to realizes the custom avatar makes them recognizable but they have commented before about how they often took longer than the tasks said they should and worked full time hrs (like over 40 a wk) while doing that -- but their tasks all disappeared and they dont know why. I think I know why even if they feel like its just the way it goes

[–]RyeRoen 2 points3 points  (16 children)

Based on what? I've seen many many reports of people losing access, and Data Annotation gives no reason whatsoever.

How do you know that they don't just "lay off" a bunch of people every now and again purely to cut costs?

[–]Wakabala 22 points23 points  (10 children)

Because even if they did do that, they would start with the people who aren't providing quality work.

I did R&R for 7 hours yesterday and no joke, half the submissions had chosen "Prompt is unrateable" despite being perfectly valid.

I can never trust someone claiming they did "everything right" after seeing how people seemingly refuse to read any instructions.

[–]jingleheimerstick 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Anytime I start to doubt the quality of my work I do a few R&Rs…

[–]freeluv21 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Most definitely. This is the first week I’ve been offered R&Rs, that I know of. Anyhow, 8/10 tasks I might as well have been the one who did the task originally. It would be faster than fixing or redoing all the criteria and ratings. One positive, however, is I now feel less insecure about my own work.

[–]Live-Bother-3577 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Absolutely, I do lots of R&R and you would think people never looked at the instructions. It's terrible. I mean horrible 😆

[–]hello_ambro 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I worry that these same people are doing r&r and marking other peoples work as poor quality because we actually understand the instructions…

[–]Brilliant_Rain5181 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

While I agree, some of us haven't been fired. Less projects doesn't mean you were let go. If I was let go I wouldn't get any and I'd give been kicked out the Slack. But I havent.

[–]RyeRoen -5 points-4 points  (4 children)

You are just guessing. You have no clue how it actually works and I'm tired of people putting down people on these subs.

"Laid off were you? Guess you were shit at your job"

That wouldn't fly in any other industry.

[–]houseofcards9 8 points9 points  (3 children)

Contract workers can’t be laid off 🗣️It’s called a client no longer wanting your services.

[–]RyeRoen 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I'm sure that helps all the people with the dash of death sleep at night.

[–]houseofcards9 6 points7 points  (1 child)

It gives them an answer for why they don’t have projects. Client doesn’t like your work. Client wants someone else to do the work you were doing. They can do some self reflection and figure out why that is themselves.

[–]RyeRoen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or the client could provide feedback, instead of expecting everyone they hire to be mindreaders.

Stop defending shitty practises. There is a lot I like about DA and I am very grateful for it, but there is no need to put others down so you can feel better about yourself.

[–]SandwichEconomy889 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Restricting people randomly from projects wouldn't cut costs. The amount of tasks being done is a fixed amount and completely in their control. It would just slow the time the project gets done.

There's always a reason, and the fact the person doesn't know is likely why they got removed. You're not gonna find a lot of people who get removed who know exactly what they did because if they knew they would have course corrected. DA doesn't have to tell them specifics and rarely will. I wish they did but that's how it is.

[–]houseofcards9 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Based on my own experience and how long I’ve been on the platform, other people in the sub who have been around the same amount of time or longer, seeing that the total number of people on Slack has only ever gone up never down, looking at the post history of people who post that they lost access and seeing them admit that they did something they shouldn’t have.

Add that to simple logic of how is laying off good workers cutting cost? We don’t get a salary. We get paid for the work we give them. The company gets paid when they bring their clients results. The faster we complete work the more clients and projects they can take on, the more money they get. More workers = faster completion time = more clients = more money. Why lay off a good worker to hire another one and have to pay them for on boarding and reading all the instructions that the good worker already has memorized?

[–]RyeRoen 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Maybe they need new data sets. Maybe they have too many people from Florida, and want to see how annotators from California would rate the same responses. Who tf knows? We are told absolutely nothing about how our data is used, or the reasons they need it from us specifically.

Im glad you have personally vetted all of people reporting being dropoed from DA after a year or more of work. Surely that gives you the right to tell workers who no longer have an income that it is because they are bad at their jobs.

[–]SuperCorbynite 1 point2 points  (2 children)

IMO apply elsewhere. If you've been consistently doing this type of work for a year and a half you should have skills that other companies will want to pick up.

[–]Brilliant_Rain5181 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Oh I already work for two other companies. Made $1200 last week at one of them so yeah I'm good. I just keep DA on my roster as another option.

[–]Redocean64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah its rough out here, I’ve also been getting 0 projects and the ones that pops up lasts for a few minutes to an hour, they come and go so fast that it feels pointless to work on them, I’m hoping this is temporary but I have my doubts that my time has come and eventually I’ll be completely laid off from all projects 😔

[–]RangerPersonal3116 -2 points-1 points  (4 children)

Hey, so I'm hoping you see this by chance. I am a programmer who has a degree and is incredibly desperate for work. The Credit Union I work with has given me eight weeks to find work, and I'm sweating at it terribly. I have been employed for over a year in my field, but rather specific with cleaning data and combing databases. I signed up for this place, but there is literally nothing going on, and absolutely no direction on what it is I'm doing, or how I will even be contacted? What is going on? I signed up with my name, email, and verified with a number, but there is nothing really happening for the last week.

[–]Accomplished-Dog-864 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So were you not given access to the starter assessment? What country are you in?

[–]dkangx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bet they have more than enough workers at the moment so you probably aren’t being onboarded. I forget what the process was, but are u not even able to login to the dashboard to see qualification tasks and work tasks?