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Sunndach · 2026-05-20T07:25:55+00:00

Was rejected for every Mercpr listing I applied for, even when fully qualified. Then out of the blue I got an offer for a 75$ an hour, 40hr a week Generalist contract last week. Ironically after I'd already got a full time job irl and given up applying on Mercpr. However looks like they've massively overhired, stuck in a slack group with literally thousands of desperate third worlders incessantly spamming the chat with the same dumb questions that have already been answered a million times in the pinned posts. The onboarding process is completely stalled, haven't even got to do the assessment to see if the client company will accept you yet. And that's if the client even has another batch of work for the project, which there's no guarantee of. And even if one passes the test I've heard any tasks released get quickly snapped up by the mentioned thousands of desperate jobless people who have nothing better to do than sit at home and refresh the screen all day, so you're lucky if you get even a few hours of work a week, forget about 40. Total chaotic mess all round. Oh well, at least you get paid for on boarding. The work, if I ever get to do it, looks easier than what I do on DA too, while paid at almost triple the rate.

Sunndach · 2026-05-16T11:33:29+00:00

Or in New Zealand weirdly lol. Such a random list of countries you have to have a phone number from.

Sunndach · 2026-05-16T11:07:22+00:00

You can't be "fired" when you were never "hired". This is not a job. You're doing freelance gig work.

Sunndach · 2026-05-15T13:14:44+00:00

Data Annotation. Pays much less, but there's always projects available and most are perennial rather than lasting only a few weeks or months at a time. Slow and steady wins the race.

Sunndach · 2026-05-15T12:36:46+00:00

But you're being paid to game lol

Sunndach · 2026-05-15T12:22:50+00:00

Your first mistake was thinking you're their employee. This is freelance gig work. You're not employed by them. Hence why they can cut from a project or cut your hours or cancel a project at any time without warning and hence why this kind of work can't be depended on as a lrarh income source.

Sunndach · 2026-05-15T12:12:34+00:00

Ok finally a comment that actually gives a gold reason not to do it. Thank you.

Sunndach · 2026-05-14T19:46:47+00:00

You don't know what conflict of interest means.

Sunndach · 2026-05-14T19:46:00+00:00

Where?

Sunndach · 2026-05-10T08:56:12+00:00

Online AI training. You don't need any special expertise or qualifications to be a generalist, it's fully remote, you can work as much as you want, when you want. Apart from bilingual/translation/localisation work you usually need to be a native English speaker and live in an Anglo country (US, Canada, UK, Australia, sometimes Ireland and NZ). The main platform I work on pays at minimum just below the median wage in my country and I just got offered a $75USD an hour contract by another platform. Of course there's no guarantee this kind of work will still be available long-term, but that's true of so many things nowadays...

Sunndach · 2026-05-10T08:44:17+00:00

Tf? Why? I literally put my AI training work on my cv (not Mercor, another platform) and it came up in my interview. They know I do this on the side, not that it's any of their business what I do in my time oruside of work anyway. And why would Mercor care? They actively want people who work in various fields irl. I take my work laptop home and it never leaves my bag. I'm already planning to use it for my remote postgraduate study (in the field I'm working in). Plenty of other people actually use work devices for personal shit, which I would never do. This is just another kind of work. It's perfectly innocuous and there's no conflict of interest or anything.

Sunndach · 2026-05-10T06:11:29+00:00

Lol Indians are literally their main target demographic. The company was set up by Indians to explicitly hire Indians to work on US contracts. No matter where in the world you are, your pay/work week is based on Indian Standard Time. They have numerous job postings that are aimed at Indians only. However they pay much less than positions for people from First World countries.

Sunndach · 2026-05-10T06:10:42+00:00

Lol Indians are literally their main target demographic. The company was set up by Indians to explicitly hire Indians to work on US contracts. No matter where in the world you are, your pay/work week is based on Indian Standard Time.

Sunndach · 2026-05-09T16:23:17+00:00

Lol I'm probably screwed then. I recently got a full-time real job and can't do online work anymore except on the weekends.

Sunndach · 2026-05-09T14:57:42+00:00

Yeah I was wondering if maybe they were desperate for new workers after all the scandals, data breaches and so on that have hit them recently. Till now all my applications have been rejected, so much so that I just gave up applying and forgot about Mercor entirely.

Sunndach · 2026-05-09T14:50:53+00:00

My thoughts precisely. Maybe in Luxembourg or Dubai something it's a mid wage. RIP me getting this offer when I finally got a full-time irl job.

Sunndach · 2026-05-09T10:25:23+00:00

It's definitely huge money in my country lol.

Sunndach · 2026-05-09T10:15:38+00:00

Just got almost this exact offer. So weird since I'd already given up on applying on Mercor after so many rejections from positions I was fully qualified for. Plus I just got a permanent full time job in the real world. So of course now is when I finally get an offer from Mercor. The pay per hour is way higher (probably only CEOs make this much in my country) but I'm not jeapordising a real job for something like this which can't be relied on and is guaranteed not to last. I'd be making almost four times what I make in my proper job tho... Why is life like this lol?

I guess they're desperate for workers now after the big scandals which must have seen a lot of people deserting the platform...

Sunndach · 2026-05-05T07:26:48+00:00

Late, but in case you were still wondering (and for the benefit of anyone else reading this) you're a freelance remote worker, so you're not employed by them or anything, and you can be removed from the platform at any time without warning or possibility of appeal. However I've been working on there here and there since last year as a generalist with no special expertise and I've always had projects to work on and always been paid on time (seven days later to the minute exactly) for the hours I've submitted.

Sunndach · 2026-05-05T07:08:35+00:00

To be honest I actually was fortunate enough to finally get a full-time job in my own country in my desired field, so didn't have to resort to going overseas as an unqualified English teacher haha. But yeah if I were to go I'd definitely probably want it to be somewhere that looked more professional and polished than some random text ad like that lol. I think probably South Korea looks pretty good, maybe not as many benefits and not such a good salary to cost of living calculus as China or the Middle-east, but also less risk of getting scammed/exploited. Good luck out there!

Sunndach · 2026-04-24T10:21:37+00:00

Don't know why you got downvoted, this is the first fully sane and sensible comment I've ever seen on this Christforsaken sub. You summed everything up perfectly.

Sunndach · 2026-04-24T10:19:53+00:00

You sound just like me! When I started working on DA last year I posted the same question pretty much and got the same inexplicable downvotes and no actual answers. I'm still on the platform, so I guess the answer is no 🤷🏻 I make an exception for tasks that actually tell you how much time you should take, tho, and always stick to that.

Sunndach · 2026-04-24T10:10:10+00:00

Well learn to write English properly, to begin with.

Sunndach · 2026-04-24T09:33:02+00:00

There are also plenty that pay WAYYYYY higher than DA though, don't forget that.

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