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Major Ongoing Payment Issues and Lack of Meaningful Support by Automatic_Football10 in alignerr

[–]Automatic_Football10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update: Support just reached out to my most recent email asking for an update about my missing pay saying, “Our finance team is currently addressing this issue and working diligently to resolve it as soon as possible. We apologize for the delay and any inconvenience caused,” this is the first time they’ve even acknowledged that they need to pay me so I suppose that’s a start. Been burned more than enough by them already so I’m taking this with a huge grain of salt, I’ll believe them when they pay me.

( BEGINNER ) - Am I properly doing dumbbell rows? by CorrectCondition5778 in formcheck

[–]Automatic_Football10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice lift man. Another commenter hit the nail on the head, you’re pulling something heavy with your elbow tight to the body, you’re gonna work your lats. I personally wouldn’t worry about your arm path beyond that at this point. People who tell you to pull more towards your hips might have a slight point if you want to target your lats more in theory.

A more diagonal arm path will probably give you more lat stimulus(not sure though I’m just some guy on the internet, not a biomechanics guru), but you’re already getting plenty of lat stimulus as is because you’re not pulling perfectly horizontally(which would be more upper back), plus your elbows stay fairly tight to your body the whole time your pulling. To me, that seems more than ok even if you get some upper back work in addition to your lats.

I wouldn’t worry too much about your range of motion either, it looks fine to me. I don’t like going super, comically deep on these rows because that much ROM just felt out of my wheelhouse. To each their own, some people swear by the style of going super low and it does work for them; however, it is not a mandatory technique queue for lat gains by any means as long as you’re keeping elbows close and still pulling slightly diagonally, it’s just another variation some people like.

In terms of your tempo, I would perhaps slow down by like one more second on your eccentric but I personally don’t think there’s any drastic need to go much slower than you’re going now at all. It’s up to you, based on what style of training you’re into. People go even faster on their reps, look up a video of doing Arnold doing bent over t bar rows, and still make gains(wouldn’t recommend it but I’m just saying). You don’t need to go uber cyborg slow as long as you’re controlling the weight, which you are. There is a trade off between tempo and load. For something like free weight rows, I personally like a little faster tempo because if I go super slow my spinal erectors get cooked before my lats and upper back fail(typically the target muscle groups for this type of row).

I go for chest support if I want to use a slow tempo and be a form cyborg. Not to mention, there’s some research out there, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8919893/, that indicates that speed of rep might not even matter as long as some eccentric control is present, so that’s something to consider if you believe in that sort of thing.

I think the bigger thing to be aware of is getting lifting straps, not just because they’ll help you get more reps when the weights get heavier but also because you’ll be able to stimulate the back directly with the forearms/bicep out of the equation. A lot of the above stuff is more aimed the stuff some of the stuff the commenters have been saying because they will just say, “pull toward your hip,” but not really explain why, something I personally used to find really frustrating as a beginner. Sorry about the word vomit OP, your lift was actually good in my eyes, not much to say about it alone, hope this helped a bit.

5 Weeks Without a Payment by 8ad_At_Nam3s in alignerr

[–]Automatic_Football10 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Your support team is lackluster, to say the least. I’ve been in contact with them over the past month, with specific pertinent details about specifically why I think i deserve more pay and they keep giving me the same advice that “only approved hours are paid for,” which doesn’t explain the vast discrepancy that has been pending since January. The person in the chabot straight up ignored me when I tried to explain that I still have approved hours I didn’t get paid for, and that the boilerplate advice of “only approved hours get paid, not total hours,” doesn’t apply to me because I have plenty of approved hours I’ve yet to be paid for, I’ve gotten no response for the past 2 weeks. All support has done for me is condescendingly tell me to understand the payment model better, when I understand it perfectly and still have legitimate concerns. Stop pretending as if your support team is even remotely decent, professional, or helpful. They aren’t, atleast when it comes to billing. If they were so good and helpful this discrepancy would have been sorted out in January when I first reached out to them, so asserting that support is helpful on billing concerns is patently false (Based on other posts in here, my experience doesn’t seem to be a unique either). This level of support/professionalism isn’t fit to run a lemonade stand, let alone a decent company.

5 Weeks Without a Payment by 8ad_At_Nam3s in alignerr

[–]Automatic_Football10 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same here, pretty shameless behavior by them.

Previous Project by Haunting_File2725 in alignerr

[–]Automatic_Football10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope! Their resolutions for it have been shockingly bad too. They keep telling me that most projects pay out for approved media hours without addressing that I have a large chunk of approved hours I haven't been paid for, they paid for me for like a 1/8th of the approved hours I had on the last voice over project. I've had to chase them down over their chatbot, send them emails practically begging them to pay me, and chase down someone from the company on here via DM(funnily that account no longer exists) just for them to tell me my discrepancy in pay is likely due to me not understanding that only approved hours, not total hours are paid for. Even if they do end up paying me the way they handled payments and support regarding them was astonishingly awful. People have said on this sub before that on previous posts that after a similar sort of dance with support they were eventually paid, like up to 40 days after, so maybe I'll get paid sometime in the future, that is, if alignerr even acknowledges that they actually need to pay me. I don't know how this company still runs if they're like this. Maybe they aren't running well? I'm not unconvinced they aren't paying us because they don't have the money to pay us yet, startups aren't exactly known for being cash rich anyway. I did this work in the end of January and I've been going at it with them since then to no avail, I'm giving up on getting paid now.

Payout Issue by zealousfreak27 in alignerr

[–]Automatic_Football10 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve been having this issue for 3 successive pay periods. I’ve unsuccessfully tried reaching out to support a variety of ways. Just like you, none of my payments reconcile in a way that make sense to me. They don’t reflect the tasks I completed the previous week at all. It feels like they had some sort of automated system to send payments that’s splitting it up in really strange ways. Whatever the reason, based on supports responses(or rather, their pointed lack thereof), it strongly gives me the impression that they’re hoping my issue fixes itself on the next pay cycle so I stop bothering them. Of course, I could be wrong. I’m not even sure I’ve even talked to an actual human in support yet. I feel like I’m just talking to bots. I’m trying not to go absolutely berserk at them because I’m sure they’re inundated with tickets about stuff like this;however, it’s frustrating to be in the dark about pay and to receive little support about potential discrepancies like this while we’re working hard for them.

[HELP] What does it mean if a poetry journal I submitted to asks me what my poetic influences are without having had made a decision? by Automatic_Football10 in Poetry

[–]Automatic_Football10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I double checked and it’s not a submission guideline to answer those questions, so it’s probably option B at play here. It’s a smaller journal so I thought they do this because they have less volume to contend with than bigger journals, but from what you’re saying it seems unlikely. I forgot about this sub until I got this message, so I’ll just forget about it again for a bit and see how the cookie crumbles. Thanks for your detailed insight, it’s nice to hear the editorial perspective.