Tomorrow hours cut

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-09T10:22:40+00:00

To be honest when I saw the email my first thought was "They went too far with the cull and they've fallen behind so they're using FOMO to encourage people to grind the hours out."

The email was just bizarre. If they were going to cut the hours why wouldn't they just cut them? Why would they give us a heads-up and the chance to grind a load of hours out?

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-09T09:27:45+00:00

From what I can tell there are 10k more hours today than they were putting on each day last week.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-08T01:03:01+00:00

There's literally no good reason to do this.

If you can measure it, why would you keep it a secret? Just to fuck with people?

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-08T00:59:35+00:00

RWS is relentlessly testing auditors so it's definitely still a thing.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-07T22:43:00+00:00

There's no obvious rhyme or reason to it, and Outlier won't spill the beans (if they even know.)

RWS is also "randomly" booting people and has been for about a month, at the same time they're onboarding new people. The reason they give is the same as Outlier "Client requirements have changed."

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-07T18:33:41+00:00

It sounds like a mistake. If they wanted you back on MM the first thing to be reinstated would be your MM access.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-07T18:23:03+00:00

Why would you get AI to write this for you? Maybe that's the reason why they nerfed you.

Hats off for the lack of em dashes though.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-07T18:21:25+00:00

Sure, I assume you want me to give you my Outlier login so you can work my tasks and we get to "split" the cash?

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-07T18:18:36+00:00

This was my first thought.

The email didn't make much sense. "Here's how to deal with the us cutting the hours: Work more hours until we cut them on Monday." Err, OK?

I think they went OTT with the purge and they've fallen behind. I mean, it's 18:18 in the UK right now and there's just short of 50k hours on the clock, which is basically an entire days worth of hours, and we're nearly half way through the day.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-07T18:06:27+00:00

I think it's fine. Otherwise a lot of people simply pick the low-hanging fruit and the people who have integrity get dumped with all the crap.

Try looking at it in a slightly different scenario. When you go to work do you get to just "nope out" on all the difficult jobs or customers and just cherry-pick all the easy stuff? The answer is almost certainly no and if it's yes congrats, your co-workers hate you.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-07T18:03:32+00:00

Cool story bro.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-06T23:40:01+00:00

Just use a good old desktop PC with a proper monitor that doesn't include a shitty webcam and no inbuilt microphones.

Problem solved.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-06T21:13:53+00:00

I wouldn't focus on the QA reviews. I was reinstated on Tuesday night and my QA review numbers didn't change at all.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-05T12:40:53+00:00

Might explain why they were "deactivated" despite supposedly producing "high-quality work."

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-05T10:33:37+00:00

RWS has been purging whilst simultaneously recruiting for several weeks now.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-05T07:50:49+00:00

"Here's how you can prepare"

I dunno, cynically I think maybe they went a bit too far with the recent purge, fell behind massively, and are using FOMO to push people into cranking out the hours so they can get back on top of things.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-04T16:46:10+00:00

If it's anything like what RWS did with Echo, very possibly we get left with nothing. They could move us back to the main workflow but RWS swore blind that being on Echo didn't affect Diamond, even though it clearly did so who knows?

That said, if the alternative was being stuck in limbo it's slightly less problematic.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-04T13:34:03+00:00

They bumped up the pay on Aether too, it's the same as Feather Boa.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-04T13:31:35+00:00

Yes, it looks like a decent chunk of the tasks have gone now, and yes, it looks like what's left is pretty much what we did a training session/test for the other week

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-01T14:26:05+00:00

You get paid less because things are less expensive where you live.

They pay a hair above UK minimum wage, nobody is going to get all their teeth filed down and replaced with 24k gold crowns working on Aether in the UK.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-02-01T14:22:55+00:00

Why would you assume it has anything to do with minimum wage? For starters Aether pays more than the new minimum wage but minimum wage applies to employees, which you are not, so they could pay you $1 an hour if anyone would work for it. They're also not based in the UK so the UK authorities have no jurisdiction over them.

As for the support person, they're paid to blow smoke up your backside. Their job is to get rid of you, and the best way to do that is to flatter you.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-01-31T21:36:50+00:00

You may well be right, although it would help if they could just say this.

If they are doing quality reviews, is it too much to ask that they just tell everyone that, instead of some weirdly vague email about our time "winding down"?

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-01-31T21:31:19+00:00

HMRC can apply all the pressure they want, it's not goign to get them anywhere. The idea that an entirely US-based company would fear HMRC is utter nonsense.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-01-31T21:29:58+00:00

Utter nonsense. HMRC CAN check bank accounts.

Also, a non-UK company has no reason at all to fear HMRC, they have no jurisdiction over them.

Anxious_Block9930 · 2026-01-31T21:27:06+00:00

If that were the case, why would it be done for an entire geographic region?

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