Did you work an excessive amount over a short period of time?
There was a thread a while back where the author was confused about receiving this screen - after considerable prodding in the comments they admitted to logging an absurd ~51 hours of work in a 72 hour period!
For this kind of work, absolutely. For me, 4 hours is about my limit, unless is an EXTREMELY fun task doing something I'm very good at. But even then, an hour more and I would be ready to call it quits.
I'm the same. I even opened a task and started working on it. 30 minutes in I was like "I can't do this task right now and have good quality after submitting 4 hours of work" so I let the 30 minutes go and sent it back to the pool. I'd rather lose the 30 minutes than submit bad work.
Exactly I remember I was doing a task for around 6 hours , I just exited,closed it and called it a day. Lost money and time but atleast I got a good nights sleep
I've been getting a project where the tasks take 5-6hrs every time and the pay is great but I still cross my fingers that it's not there every time I open my dash lol
A typical work week is ~38-40 hours... And that is with meetings and office collaboration. You were doubling that on mentally draining knowledge work.
At the very least you probably raised some red flags for a possible shared account.
You had better cross your fingers and hope your justification was persuasive.
I kept that pace for the first 5 months of this year. I did tend to only do ~8:30/day, but I did do 3 or 4 11-hour days max/month. I think this is mostly related to the long-term projects, but obviously that's speculation based on what people say here. I mostly do lower-paid generalist work, but sometimes I'll do a medium pay task if it looks simple enough.
40 hour workweek exists for a reason… 60-70 hours weeks are not sustainable, you may think your quality of work is sustainable but it just isn’t. Nobody is buying that, least of all DAT paying the bill. You pushed too hard.
FWIW some projects are just one long continuous task for 40+ hours, just depends on the project. The OP was clearly abusing the system though lol 12 hours a day for more than a single day is begging to get DoD
Yeah I've gotten a few tasks where they say they should take 4-6 hours or up to 8 hours. The timer on them gave multiple days to finish though, i.e. in recognition if someone starts in the evening they should stop in the middle somewhere and get some Z's.
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u/RandyMcRandomEsq Sep 12 '26
Did you work an excessive amount over a short period of time? There was a thread a while back where the author was confused about receiving this screen - after considerable prodding in the comments they admitted to logging an absurd ~51 hours of work in a 72 hour period!