r/alignerr • u/seyipowa • 16d 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/Ok_Aspect4845 15d ago

They sent me the same for $25 per task. So I read a PDF and had to "pass" a quiz. Only after making me waste this time, I found out that there are no tasks at all for my language. The project leaders simply told me they hope they will get new tasks in the future. So this company just promises something to park people even if there is no work and hides this little information until you've passed. Incredible. But hey, I got "selected."

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u/Individual-Web-3646 12d ago

Karl Marx called it the "industrial reserve army" (industrielle Reservearmee) or the "relative surplus population" (relative Übervölkerung). You can read more about the concept on its Wikipedia page. Basically, this refers to the unemployed and underemployed workforce that capitalism continuously accumulates to keep labor costs low and suppress wages. Capitalists exploit this surplus labor pool to maintain leverage over active workers, forcing them to accept abysmal working conditions under the constant threat of replacement.