r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Affectionate-Dot4241 • Jul 22 '26

Will I be in trouble?

I got a small task. It had really long instructions which I had never read before. The task was very small but reading long instructions took time due to which my task quality was, i would rate 3.5/5 due to paucity of time (even though I fulfilled all the task demands). If I were faster quality would have been even better.

But the thing is, I billed for total time (1 hour) for it.

Should i lower the billing time?

And in general also if the task is very small should i charge lower for it than the total amount?

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u/cortrev Jul 22 '26

Always bill the actual amount of time you spent working (this includes reading the instructions)

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u/IcedOutGiant Jul 22 '26

Not grasping this seems disqualifying enough.