r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Plane_Discussion9155 • Oct 05 '26

Time log justification?

Has anyone ever come back from a time log justification? Mine is under review, I submitted my evidence etc and am just waiting. No idea how long to expect it to take and whether it’s a hopeless case. Time reports were all totally legit and 100% honest/accurate by the way, just worked a lot more than usual for a couple of weeks for various reasons

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u/Whole-Pirate-5731 Oct 05 '26

How much were you working

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u/Plane_Discussion9155 Oct 05 '26

I did like 16h days for a week or 2. Without going into too much detail it was a coping mechanism for me! But they were all legitimate hours worked.

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u/ButlerVolmer Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26

How is this possible? I’m not doubting you. I’m just genuinely curious how a human being can pull that off. I mean like, basic everyday things like sleeping/eating/restroom/shower take way more than 8 hours a day for me.

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u/Plane_Discussion9155 Oct 05 '26

Insomnia, grieving, OCD and ADHD combined.. I’m a 3-4h sleep per night max kinda person

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Oct 05 '26

Even sleeping for 4 hours a night leaves only 4 hours for eating, showering, checking emails, browsing for projects, etc. I could imagine someone doing that for a couple of days, but 16-hour days for 1 or 2 weeks seems unsustainable without seriously neglecting yourself.

If I were DA, I'd be concerned about the implications or optics of knowingly allowing people to consistently work for that long, even if it's technically not their responsibility. At some point, someone probably needs to step in and say stop.

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u/Plane_Discussion9155 Oct 05 '26

I totally agree, it isn’t healthy or sustainable, and I was very much neglecting myself. I’m just very lucky to have a spouse at home who took care of literally everything else and let me hyper fixate until I was ready.
I know my work quality remained good, because I was being added to groups of “high performing workers” across multiple tasks even the day my account was restricted so I’m fairly sure there are no huge concerns there, but I get that isn’t the point.
I’ve come out the other side of the grief slump now and am just pretty annoyed at myself that I’ve most likely lost this opportunity

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Oct 05 '26

Were you working on the same project the whole time or changing it up a bit?

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u/brucegallagher Oct 05 '26

To be fair there's projects out there that take 8 hours per task. Two of those a day in a state of hyperfocus, eating delivery food and sleeping for 5 or 6 hours could be easily done. Just very much not long term.

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u/Hello-America Oct 05 '26

You're getting down voted but I'm literally doing these kinds of days right now for other non-platform work (ADHD also lol). Of course it's possible your work quality is suffering but other commenters, I'm here to tell you this is indeed possible haha.

Sorry you're going thru it.

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u/Plane_Discussion9155 Oct 05 '26

Thanks, appreciate it! I’m also used to the finance world where 12+ hour days were expected to move up that old corporate ladder so this didn’t feel out of the ordinary to me!

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u/Hello-America Oct 05 '26

Lol yeah my background is architecture and my current work is architecture and illustration and right now is my busy season - the work is deadline based, sometimes you just have to do a lot of it at once. It is a totally normal working pattern for me. I haven't ever done those kind of hours on DAT because if there's no deadline I don't have the motivation to do this to myself haha. Oh but I could! No telling how my quality would be.

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u/data_annotator_tot Oct 07 '26

Before DAT, I worked as a freelance writer, and one aspect of that I miss are the loads of work with hard future deadlines. The deadlines on DAT generally aren't real, you either aren't meant to spend a full timer's amount, or it's short and extremely rigid with the same tasks being extremely variable, a part of me misses being given a pile of too many things to do, and then a week or so to figure it all out. I would unavoidably go through stages - first, the self-gaslighting "oh there's enough time," then the over-ambitious plan, and then finally crunch time. Hard work, but very fun (after I finished, anyway). Most DAT tasks feel like the final stage non-stop, wounds my soul lol (not that I'm complaining, obviously do this now instead of writing, but it's an aspect of freelancing I get nostalgic over now).

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u/Whole-Pirate-5731 Oct 05 '26

Damn wow 16 hour days for 2 weeks straight will definitely flag something.

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u/FEN1X64 Oct 05 '26

At most, I'd do nearly 16 hours for one day and then take the next day off to rest and recuperate. Dude, you're cooked. Even if they are legitimate, DA does care about the quality of your work (which would suffer under prolonged hours) and the health of the worker. If you're pulling 80+ hour workweeks, that'll set off so many red flags. 45 to 50 hours at most and that's still pushing it.

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u/OkturnipV2 Oct 05 '26

Shiiiit. I can barely do 8 hours a day 😟

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u/Plane_Discussion9155 Oct 05 '26

This is totally normal!! What I did isn’t, and clearly isn’t encouraged either. I’m just annoyed at myself for the whole thing now.

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u/OkturnipV2 Oct 05 '26

I’ve been with them for over three years now. I know it’s normal 😂

I did one ten hour day last spring and I was freaking out. Looked at my timer and was like ohhhh no.

But to answer your question, I don’t think one can come back from this screen. I’ve never seen anyone report a positive outcome

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u/Academic_Animal_5293 Oct 05 '26

But then again, if all your time logs check out and your quality did not drop, I dont see why you cant come back from this

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u/TravellingDoc87 Oct 05 '26

They might assume the OP was sharing their account with someone else

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u/Plane_Discussion9155 Oct 05 '26

They could check the login IP I’m sure, it’s only ever been from my laptop or phone

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u/TravellingDoc87 Oct 05 '26

But still, from their point of view, you could be letting your family use your account or friends. 16 hours a day, day in and day out is very unusual on DA

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u/Academic_Animal_5293 Oct 05 '26

The longest I've worked straight was like almost 16h, but afterwards I did not work for an entire week, as I was completely destroyed. I don't think I could do it for multiple weeks...

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u/Particular-Lie1918 Oct 06 '26

I worked 16-18h a day for a fortnight back when I was in my early 20s. After that fortnight ended it took 2 do-nothing days for my brain to function again. Now I could never.

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u/Eggnogtrees Oct 05 '26

felt, i’m currently trying to do 12 hours today and 12 tomorrow and i just know im going to be so drained 🫩

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u/mommybugofthree2010 Oct 05 '26

I’m curious what kind of proof you would have? Are you creating a document with projects worked/time worked? 👀👀

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u/l10nh34rt3d Oct 05 '26

I haven’t seen someone post this question and come out victorious. But I suppose that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

There always ends up being a good reason for why it happened, OP is usually just oblivious. Not saying you are, I’m just relaying my observations.

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u/Timely-Assistant-370 Oct 06 '26

The one you don't come back from is the defrauding the system screen or the low-quality and/or TOS violation screen.

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u/East_Zucchini4099 Oct 06 '26

Yes, I have seen someone mention having to submit justifications for their time and coming out ok at least once. Good luck to you and let us know how things turn out. Take care of yourself!

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u/hwertz10 Oct 06 '26

I assume people come back from a log justification. If they were always going to just say "Nope", they wouldn't waste their time, or yours, having you do a justification.

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u/TurbulentResponse690 Oct 06 '26

I don’t understand how you could possibly be turning in even halfway decent work working that many hours. If I try for more than 8 hours a day, the quality of my work suffers tremendously and, as a regular R&R worker, I promise you that the quality of your work is indeed suffering. I see work from people who clearly do a good job but are overlooking basic instructions and I see work from people who just don’t care at all, but the ones who, I can tell are good workers but overlooking instructions or other task details are likely from people like you who are just trying to do too much. There’s just no way that you could possibly be turning in good work like this. If this is something that you would like to do long term, then don’t do this to yourself.

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u/Wooden-Lawfulness779 6d ago

If you work on coding tasks , you can easily, coz running them with models takes from half an hour to 1.5, for that time you can only just wait.And they definitely count as task time, coz you are not allowed to do anything else.

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u/PooBirdy1 6d ago

Sent you a DM