02/01 - Topiary Thursday!

[C to the J]

did it have a van and a dude needing help with a chair/sofa in it, plus a pit in his basement?

 

[InfiniteChanges]

All in all it took about a week or so of back and forths to get my money, but I did get my money.

 

[Jerami]

I had a problem like that really early on in my turkering experience. I contacted Payment who said they can't do anything, but if you complain enough, and keep escalating, you eventually get to an actual supervisor, not a call center e-team, and they should be able to help you out.

That's what I was saying. It can be handled through that number but, grunt agents are trained to shut their ears at the mention of MTurk.

 

[It's Gamera!]

What's his MTC handle?

 

[C to the J]

What's his MTC handle?

@Pleco

 

[An Island in the Sun]

I had a problem like that really early on in my turkering experience. I contacted Payment who said they can't do anything, but if you complain enough, and keep escalating, you eventually get to an actual supervisor, not a call center e-team, and they should be able to help you out.

I dunno, the guy made it sound like they don't handle anything on the mturk side of things. I guess I could try again. I'm gonna see if this just appears by tomorrow. I'm thinking it must have something to do with Amazon themselves reversing rejections on my account today, like it somehow glitched the transfer when they were messing with the account.

 

[InfiniteChanges]

I dunno, the guy made it sound like they don't handle anything on the mturk side of things. I guess I could try again. I'm gonna see if this just appears by tomorrow. I'm thinking it must have something to do with Amazon themselves reversing rejections on my account today, like it somehow glitched the transfer when they were messing with the account.

How did you get Amazon to reverse a rejection?

 

[Jerami]

I dunno, the guy made it sound like they don't handle anything on the mturk side of things. I guess I could try again. I'm gonna see if this just appears by tomorrow. I'm thinking it must have something to do with Amazon themselves reversing rejections on my account today, like it somehow glitched the transfer when they were messing with the account.

They don't handle anything on the Mturk side but, that's a bit of a crossover area. A regular agent is trained to say, "We don't handle Mturk." And, they don't. But, if you escalate to a supervisor, they have the ability to contact their counterpart in 'Payments' proper.

 

[cassius]

Thanks, I'll try it.



The problem is this transfer isn't showing up anywhere. Like it just disappeared into thin air so they could say they don't have any record of it anywhere. And then you realise after you transfer it out of mturk, if it doesn't show up on the transfer list there's nowhere on the site showing rolling account balance history or anything like that so there's no proof you had it really. It can't just disappear though. It's gotta be there somewhere.

That's what they do when this happens and I've had it happen twice at the most inconvenient times. The money just disappears into the Amazon cloud somewhere I guess. Amazon gets money from somewhere and sends it back to your account and then you do the whole thing over again with your fingers crossed.

 

[InfiniteChanges]

That's what I was saying. It can be handled through that number but, grunt agents are trained to shut their ears at the mention of MTurk.

It helps having spent 6 years in a call center environment. You can get almost anything done if you go high enough up the chain.

 

[cassius]

There are still laws about practicing without a medical license.

I'm sorry. That was a joke.

 

[klingeemonster]

Title: Decision Making under Uncertainty - Bonus Payments Given(~ 6 minutes) | Accept Requester: Katie M [A36I2NOE6N42UJ] Contact TV: [Hrly: $8.67] [Pay: 3.00] [Fast: null] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 3.67] [Fast: 3.00] [Comm: 1.00] [Fair: 3.67] [Reviews: 4] [ToS: 0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: $0.18 Duration: 45 minutes Available: 1 Description: A short survey of decision making under uncertainty Requirements: Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 100; Exc: [2234200-72756] DoesNotExist; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 90; Location In US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.1.8​

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Not bad, made a dollar in bonus.

 

[Jerami]

Your daily dose of weird...
Hi Bingo.
Bingo the Clown-O

 

[An Island in the Sun]

How did you get Amazon to reverse a rejection?

The requester couldn't do it for some reason so they opened a ticket with Amazon.

That's what they do when this happens and I've had it happen twice at the most inconvenient times. The money just disappears into the Amazon cloud somewhere I guess. Amazon gets money from somewhere and sends it back to your account and then you do the whole thing over again with your fingers crossed.

Did either of you notice when this happened if the transfer didn't show up at all on your Mturk Transfer History as even pending? The Mturk side for me shows as if I never even made a transfer except that all the money I had is gone.

 

[<Gucci>]

Your daily dose of weird...
Hi Bingo.
Bingo the Clown-O

 

[InfiniteChanges]

The requester couldn't do it for some reason so they opened a ticket with Amazon.



Did either of you notice when this happened if the transfer didn't show up at all on your Mturk Transfer History as even pending? The Mturk side for me shows as if I never even made a transfer except that all the money I had is gone.

Yes. It never showed up. I was really new, and wasn't tranferring every day, so I thought it was normal. However, after three days of not getting the email notification, I got worried and started calling.

 

[Jerami]

Title: Psychology study (40-50 min) | Accept Requester: PsychLabAtBC [A10M90Y8PUKQ1E] Contact TV: [Hrly: $9.73] [Pay: 3.50] [Fast: 5.00] [Comm: null] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Blk: 0] TO: [Pay: 3.26] [Fast: 4.73] [Comm: 3.54] [Fair: 4.72] [Reviews: 196] [ToS: 2] TO2: [Hrly: $7.67] [Pen: ---] [Res: ---] [Rec: ---] [Rej: 0] [ToS: 0] [Brk: 0] Reward: $5.75 Duration: 12 hours Available: 1 Description: Rate other people's behaviors Requirements: HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThan 90; Location EqualTo US [tr][td] HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.1.8​

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[InfiniteChanges]

God damn shit computer can't handle Twitch and turking at the same time. Hate this piece of junk.

 

[It's Gamera!]

Your daily dose of weird...
Hi Bingo.
Bingo the Clown-O

Is it time for creepy animated shorts?

 

[JenniLeigh]

Laws saying you can't work for under min wage but that not stopping us here either.

We're not employees.