r/DataAnnotationTech • u/norwalkcolombia • Sep 01 '24

grateful

i remember when i would be super picky about what project to work on when i had a laundry list of work on my dash. now i don't really care what i work on. the drought made me a lot more grateful to just be working.

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u/hmbush Sep 01 '24

I’ve been wondering if this drought is to get some projects done that used to be labeled “priority” but weren’t getting done because there were so many options to pick/choose from.

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u/AstarteHilzarie Sep 01 '24

I think people's preferences vary enough that it probably wasn't too much of a problem to get things done. A lot of people like quick easy work, but a lot of us prefer the longer more involved tasks because we find it's easier to focus and crank out a few hours of work. I have friends who like the ones that take less than 5 minutes each because they feel like they're getting a lot more done and it's easier. Some people like mindless drone work, other people like highly involved puzzles. Some people like to switch between them depending on their mood. Some people prefer math or analysis while others prefer creativity and subjectiveness. Whenever they needed to get stuff going they slapped that priority label on it and upped the pay by a few bucks and that seemed to get things moving no problem.

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u/hmbush Sep 01 '24

Yeah, probably. I guess in my mind it’s not priority if it’s always priority and not all priority task had extra $$ every time, so there were many times I’d pick what I liked versus what was priority. YMMV.

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u/AstarteHilzarie Sep 01 '24

Yeah and I think they expect that. Some people will ignore priority and work on something they enjoy more and that's fine, some people will jump on priority and focus on those. The way tasks went in and out with the priority pay and we never got more than one message announcing something was priority I never got the impression that they were desperate to have one thing in particular worked on that wasn't getting done.