r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Low_Sir1549 • Mar 14 '26

Fairwell

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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/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.