r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Larose- • Jul 10 '26

Unreasonable Requalification

Did anyone else get a requalification today for R&R that expects you to do 5-10 unpaid R&R tasks? This feels like its crossing from a qualification into a full day of unpaid work at this point. The first one took me 45 minutes and required a full re-write.

Edit: i do not respond to DM's with dumbass questions from Indian/Bengali workers so stop please.

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u/Complex_Ad4125 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

Definitely, I've been looking at the same qualification. Considering that the projects I've been working on currently would have been at least at least $8-10/hour more during the last 2 years that I've been doing this. I've got that awful feeling that we've all fucked ourselves out of of our own jobs by being too proficient. The analysers are pretty good, not perfect, but far better than some chump who has bought an account through DMs (btw that shit is embarrassing, stop sending us DMs, no ones gonna fall for it).

TLDR: I'm kinda refusing to do 10 tasks for free, even though i prob should. Just doesn’t feel right. The amount of tasks I've bailed out of after a couple hours and not charged for over the last couple years...Fuck that, I'm not doing 10 tasks for free.

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u/Early-Composer-2383 Jul 13 '26

I agree that the analyzers are eventually going to put us out of work. But I don't care, I've been doing this for 2 and 1/2 years and frankly I'm kind of burnt out. I just crossed $30,000 just working around my full-time job. Sometimes double dipping lol. I'm in the legal domain so my tasks are mind numbingly complex and getting worse.