Appen Butler-Hill

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Maktina wrote: »

Just thought I'd jump in here. Having had experience with both LF and ABH, I can say for sure that ABH is a far better company in terms of presentation. The people are nice and it's a pretty friendly place. But that's where the pros end, the work itself is poorly designed - the metrics are terribly strict, and to be honest they don't really represent the guidelines very well. It really is 'luck of the draw' if you are able to suceed at ABH. But it's partially not their fault, as the client is the one who decides the metrics and to be honest I think the client has a lot to answer for. The worst problem faced by Appen is the toolbar the client uses. It's really the worst piece of rating software I've ever had to use.

LF on the other hand are, in my opinion a very unfriendly company - there is no interaction with the staff, and almost all messages are automated and support questions go unanswered. ABH shine compared to LF in this department. That being said, the work is much easier and the guidelines are very easy to follow. LF's metrics are far more forgiving and you can get a lot more work down at a stress-free pace.

I've not worked for LF, but have for LB, but I agree completely with your comments about Appen.

The metrics at ABH are very strict, and as you say, it is luck of the draw. Communication is generally good. I think ABH are too strict in terms of hours worked, and holiday time. I do begrudge the fact that we're 'self employed' yet have to ask for permission for a day off.

The client is very poor in my view. The number of errors, crashes, and outages is beyond a joke and makes the job far more stressful than it should be.

MallRat

Have just tried to start work for the day, only to be greeted by a "Your account is not known..." message every time I try to log in. Is this what everyone else is getting?!

studentmidwife

I'm not doing WSE but getting the same message when I try to log into Crowdsourcing!!!

Catwoman1975

MallRat wrote: »

Have just tried to start work for the day, only to be greeted by a "Your account is not known..." message every time I try to log in. Is this what everyone else is getting?!

Yes, just the same. Thought I had been sacked! :rotfl:

Cassiopeia01

Just had my Welcome to Production email after getting through the qualification process. Tried to log in and got the same message as everyone else. Good start! Lol

MallRat

Catwoman1975 wrote: »

Yes, just the same. Thought I had been sacked! :rotfl:

. Not sure about sacked, but definitely think there's a good chance I could be finding myself on review this week.. Suppose all will be revealed soon enough.

Cassiopeia01 wrote: »

Just had my Welcome to Production email after getting through the qualification process. Tried to log in and got the same message as everyone else. Good start! Lol

Well done for passing! Luckily this type of thing doesn't happen TOO often!

FATFREE

does the quality report ever even reset? how can I even not get pulled from production if it doesnt reset... thats like saying you need to average 10ppg to stay on the basketball team and you have 30 games with 7ppg, then you got cut. you made it back on and are average 10 a game now but by the end of the week you're cut again because they used your old ppg as well...

MallRat

FATFREE wrote: »

does the quality report ever even reset? how can I even not get pulled from production if it doesnt reset... thats like saying you need to average 10ppg to stay on the basketball team and you have 30 games with 7ppg, then you got cut. you made it back on and are average 10 a game now but by the end of the week you're cut again because they used your old ppg as well...

Not sure how it's worked out, FATFREE. Are you pulled this week? After reading this I just logged on to find that somehow I only managed to miss one. Just did badly on the audits, I think..

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Shocked I apparently didn't miss any metrics...

Was lucky I had less than 10 audits though, or I believe I'd have been :wave: and off on review.

I've worked out the metrics seem to work Thursday to Thursday. This has been lucky for me twice, when the Friday Audits went terribly, but I managed to save myself on the Thursday evening.

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Cassiopeia01 wrote: »

Just had my Welcome to Production email after getting through the qualification process. Tried to log in and got the same message as everyone else. Good start! Lol

Congratulations