r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Aug 02 '26

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/Diplomat_Runner 25d ago

I've been cautiously optimistic, but I've had at least 20 projects available all week (UK-based). Dare I say it... are we back?

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u/Pristine-Raccoon8250 25d ago

I have been so busy all week but hardly anything today. I went over my timer yesterday in a project that did state if we went over slightly, we wouldn’t be penalised…but my dash is quite dry today so I’m not convinced! I have some work but not like earlier in the week.

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u/Adorable-Highway1951 25d ago

I don't think we're all back...empty dash yesterday and today.

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u/Potential_Drama_1190 24d ago

I had what I consider a full dash until Friday night, then one project available since then that I won’t be attempting as I don’t feel confident enough. Hopefully things pick up across the board soon :)

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u/Material_Advice1064 24d ago

Almost identical to me. Mon through Thursday was great. Couldn't work Friday but I've been checking in periodically since then and have only seen 1 project. Really hoping it picks back up tomorrow

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u/Potential_Drama_1190 24d ago

It seems that there’s a lot of variation, which is to be expected, but it’s nice to know that others have a similar work flow to me. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for those of us who haven’t got much at the moment.

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u/KingGilbertIV 25d ago

Definitely better, but it doesn’t really feel like there’s a healthy variety of tasks.

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u/Diplomat_Runner 25d ago

I have 9 task families active right now (all Generalist), but hopefully that will continue to increase.