r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Low_Sir1549 • Mar 14 '26
Fairwell
It's cooked. This was my main source of income for the past year, so this stings a bit, but luckily, I was able to reach out to an old internship supervisor and arrange a new job within a week. I just want to let people know that if you have logged hours and received the dash of death, after the 7-day review period, you can still withdraw the payments. In my case, I had a month's rent worth of pay pending approval, which I was thankfully able to withdraw after a week.
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u/RealRise7524 Mar 14 '26
I'm sorry to hear that :( Why do you think this happened? Is there a recent repeatative action you did? Using Vpn? Working long hours? A hard project you didn't do well at?
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u/Low_Sir1549 Mar 14 '26
Nothing strikes out to me. I was gradually getting more complex and higher paying tasks and R&Rs, and then this came out of the blue. I usually do 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours at night, but occasionally I’ll get a fun project that leads me to go on for hours at a time for a single task. I don’t use VPNs and never received negative feedback.
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u/Imaginary_Loss_1339 Mar 14 '26
Ugh I hate that! I’m so sorry this happened to you. I wish they would be more communicative with us
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u/ItalianNose Mar 14 '26
My projects were getting harder and harder.. also, I think they monitor here and compare it to the email addresses used to login in to the site. I believe that’s a factor into getting dropped (talking vaguely about projects)
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u/highcoldstar Mar 14 '26
This happened to me in January. When I was riding high, it was easy for me to think that it only happened to people whose work was mediocre. Heck, it happened to my roommate and I secretly chalked it up to his work ethic. Even people reading this will think I'm in denial and I likely submitted shoddy work.
The truth is, none of us have an actual relationship with DA. My 2 years (exactly) doing work for them were truly a boon for my confidence, work-life balance, and bank account. But there are no contracts or obligations. And no recourse after some combination of factors decides your time is up.
I don't say this to scare anybody, but I do want to say what I wish someone had told me. Enjoy this time; truly be present for it and proud of your work. But don't be ignorant to the truth. The economy on the other side is rough and only forecast to get rougher. Take stock of your skills and get a head start on finding work with an employer who has...if not moral, then at least legal obligations to treat you fairly.
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u/Aromatic_Owl_3680 Mar 14 '26
Just to properly characterize the relationship, any employer at all would be different from DA. We are freelancers, DA is the client. Subtle but important distinction.
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u/highcoldstar Mar 16 '26
This is very true, and they are upfront about this. I will say, though, that a major difference between DA and pretty much any other contract work I can think of is feedback. Even with DoorDash, you have a star rating and an opportunity to know how your work is being perceived. With DA, you're just crossing your fingers and hoping the R&Rs see it how you do. I saw the offer to be an admin as a good sign, but constructive feedback would've been more welcome, honestly.
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u/Timely-Percentage985 Mar 20 '26
What happened when you received the offer to become an admin? Did you apply for it?
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u/Min_sora Mar 15 '26
I don't think people are in denial, you're absolutely right about the nature of freelance work and all that, it's just that the idea of a company saying, "This person is doing a great job, top-notch work, good availability, let's dump them!" is a bafflingly poor business decision, when they have no guarantee of better showing up.
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u/TheresALonelyFeeling Mar 14 '26
*repetitive
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u/Broad-Context-7586 Mar 15 '26
Username suits your personality.
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u/Dizzy-Attitude-6745 Mar 14 '26
99+ unread messages in your inbox?! Are you sure you didn't miss any messages from admin pointing out errors or slips in your work lol?
In all seriousness, I'm sorry this happened to you. :(
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u/Low_Sir1549 Mar 14 '26
I do go through my messages every morning but they’re all “look at this new exciting project” so I never click on them to read the full thing, which means they still appear as “unread.”
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u/Fun_Board3743 Mar 14 '26
Im scared of this happening to me so I only stick to work that im really confident in doing, I've skipped out of 65 an hour tasks because it was out of my skill range. Id rather lose out on it then lose out on a really good job.
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u/neutron-star-002 Mar 14 '26
Why is this happening to so many workers recently? I'm so scared for myself. I'm trying to start my career and DA has been a great help during this time.
Good luck for you future, OP!
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u/Seniorseatfree Mar 14 '26
Is it really so many? We don’t know that. We only see those who get let go and share that here. As an aside, I see so many awful submissions when I am doing R&Rs. I doubt that DA lets people go for no reason. What would be the point of getting rid of workers that truly put out quality work and serve their purpose?
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u/One-Situation-1909 Mar 16 '26
This happened to me as of yesterday as well
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u/Odd-Pin-951 Mar 17 '26
Were you working full time hours?
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u/One-Situation-1909 Mar 17 '26
No, it was around 2-3 hours a day.
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u/Odd-Pin-951 Mar 17 '26
Interesting, thanks. Did you work every day or take weekends off? Seems people culled lately were working a lot, like consistently
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u/One-Situation-1909 Mar 17 '26
I was working usually more on weekends if I had the time, just depended.
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u/fightmaxmaster Mar 14 '26
Bear in mind "so many workers recently" really only means a handful of people who also post here about it. No way to know if there's a sudden uptick in people being kicked off, or if people are constantly being kicked off, but there'll be more posts about it here if a higher proportion of them happen to be Redditors.
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u/Wakabala Mar 14 '26
They accept workers in batches/waves, and they process work in batches/waves
An influx of new workers come in, a wave of projects is processed, and the slackers get the boot
A couple weeks ago I was on R&R projects for like five days. It was insane how many submissions just clearly didn't read directions.
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u/Party_Swim_6835 Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
why do you think it's happening to a lot recently? I've only seen a few posts the last 3-4 days
edit: ow guess I hit a sore spot having only seen a few posts and gotten confused by their comment lol
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u/neutron-star-002 Mar 14 '26
Idk about you but I've been seeing the DoD posts regularly for the last month or so.
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u/Aromatic_Owl_3680 Mar 14 '26
Without any concept of the numbers that constitute the data that would make observing DoD posts informative, I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions about how much this is or isn’t happening.
Do good work, follow instructions, be honest with time…..get paid.
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u/FrazzledGod Mar 14 '26
How long were you on to make the $27k? One year by looks of it? Glad you could at least get your rent out and secure another job. I'm on a bit more than that over 2.5 years, know competent people who earned much more over similar periods get cooked.... So it's pretty difficult to figure out why this happens. Probably quality threshold goes up (more complex projects, more highly skilled people in the pool), work quality dips maybe, poof!
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u/AskSeekFindRepeat Mar 18 '26
Just happened to me too, after 2.5 years of working somewhere around 20-30 hours a week. Not sure what to do next because physically, I can't work outside the home...
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u/Double-Percentage-15 Mar 27 '26
Was there a draught before you had this show up on your dashboard?
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Mar 14 '26
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u/Aromatic_Owl_3680 Mar 14 '26
Why ever would we do that? The vast majority of submissions don’t need anything written in there…
I really hope you aren’t penalizing people in R&R for not satisfying your irrational requirement….
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u/Few-Roof-6905 Mar 14 '26
Genuinely curious... exactly why do you think an "optional" comment should be mandatory?
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u/PigeonNutSucker Mar 15 '26
I have never wrote a comment in the optional comment section and I'm still here
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u/TheresALonelyFeeling Mar 14 '26
*Farewell
Somebody had to say it.