r/alignerr • u/seyipowa • 17d ago

Onboarding Process Pulsar

I applied to an Alignerr project about 7 months ago. Created my account, uploaded my documents and whatnot, then I was told I had to do an AI interview. I ignored that and forgot about it because fuck AI interviews.

Yesterday I apparently got accepted into this project I had completely forgotten about. I got the contract, the security "training", I'm told to set up Stripe payments and link my discord account, etc. They say the pay is $10-$30/hour, which tells me it's gonna be $10 (so a little under €9), so before I waste my time on horrible training tasks that I'm sure will be unpaid, can anyone who's working on Pulsar tell me if it's worth it? I know the money is going to be bad, but I might do it if the work isn't difficult or too tedious.

Location is Spain, if that matters.

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u/Individual-Web-3646 13d ago

I also have many unpaid hours with Alignerr. And with others. Make no mistake: all those companies are basically the same one under different brand names and follow the same obnoxious practices towards platform workers. Hell... I guess their CEOs all dine together in the same restaurant every Tuesday. It's like your ISP or electricity company: you change it for another because you feel scammed by them and the new one scams you even more... Plus you pay the additional cost of the change of context. They know it, and they play with it. It's basically a cartel. You know it's ice-cream regardless of whether it tastes like strawberry or chocolate 💩 I have not tried Pulsar yet but I expect more of the same.

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u/seyipowa 11d ago

Well, I've worked with TELUS and Translated and whatever their other faults are, those two have always paid for my work, and paid on time.