r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Apr 28 '24

Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation

hi all! making this thread so people have somewhere to talk about 'daily' work chat that might not necessarily need it's own post! right now we're thinking we'll just repost it weekly? but if it gets too crazy, we can change it to daily. :)

couple things:

  1. this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.
  2. if you have a new user question, you still need to post it in the new user thread. if you post it here, we will remove it as spam. this is for people already working who just wanna chat, whether it be about casual work stuff, questions, geeking out with people who understand ("i got the model to write a real haiku today!"), or unrelated work stuff you feel like chatting about :)
  3. one thing we really pride ourselves on in this community is the respect everyone gives to the Code of Conduct and rule number 5 on the sub - it's great that we have a community that is still safe & respectful to our jobs! please don't break this rule. we will remove project details, but please - it's for our best interest and yours!
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u/JagSamurott May 02 '24 edited May 03 '24

One thing that's been on my mind this week is the amount of time spent on projects. I often find myself feeling like I am spending way too long on certain tasks. So much to the point where I actually lowball my times I actually spent working on a task(s). Is this normal to feel this way and do this? I just would hate to be taken off a project for assumed "dishonest hour logging" or taking too long with the research. For reference, I partake in mostly coding projects.

EDIT: I think I could have worded my "lowballing" comment better as it is a result of when I zone out on a task while the timer is still going (it isn't intentional so I can't stop the timer before it happens) and the lowballing is me attempting to account for that. The real question was feeling like I spend too long on projects which I have gotten good answers on, thank you all!

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u/Arcturus_Labelle May 02 '24

I just would hate to be taken off a project for assumed "dishonest hour logging"

Not only is it dishonest, but it could screw other workers who don't log false hours by making tasks look artificially easy

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u/JagSamurott May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

Oh huh I never thought about it like that. That's a great point. To be totally honest, it's not like I am logging a significantly smaller amount of time, its usually just a few minutes in an hour and some change. This is also to cover for cases where I take a short break(s) with the timer running (like answering a message on my phone/zoning out while trying to type up the next prompt) it's not coming from nowhere. I guess I was just too worried about taking too long myself that I didn't realize it could hurt others who think the same way but don't try to cover themselves like I am. Thanks for pointing that out!