02/01 - sMiley Monday!

[C to the J]

Oh cool way to start Monday with 188 rejects from Jobaline and most likely a block. I gambled and lost .. morning everyone

 

[Raven]

Oh cool way to start Monday with 188 rejects from Jobaline and most likely a block. I gambled and lost .. morning everyone

I've been emailing back and forth with their CTO all freakin' night long. I am trying to talk sense into him. They are rejecting cause you used pandas to fill your queue. LOL

 

[MisterEgo]

Oh cool way to start Monday with 188 rejects from Jobaline and most likely a block. I gambled and lost .. morning everyone

Ouch. That'll deflate a cushion right quick, I tell ya hwhat.

 

[Lepi]

I've been emailing back and forth with their CTO all freakin' night long. I am trying to talk sense into him. They are rejecting cause you used pandas to fill your queue. LOL

I...what?

Like... how could that possibly matter even a little bit?

It's like a 90 year old woman getting all pissed off because you call her from your cell phone instead of your house phone.

 

[DONTDOIT]

I've been emailing back and forth with their CTO all freakin' night long. I am trying to talk sense into him. They are rejecting cause you used pandas to fill your queue. LOL

I think this has to be the best reason to reject people.

 

[clickhappier]

Oh cool way to start Monday with 188 rejects from Jobaline and most likely a block. I gambled and lost .. morning everyone

Jobaline = DON'T DO IT, heh. There's a reason Jobaline's TO is deep red across the board with 20 reviews, but people keep thinking 'it won't happen to me'.

 

[Shadowsbane1988]

Oh cool way to start Monday with 188 rejects from Jobaline and most likely a block. I gambled and lost .. morning everyone

Oh man, that blows. It is NOT just you though. Their TO is...a spectacle.
https://turkopticon.ucsd.edu/reports?id=A2VHH624F5P39T

 

[Raven]

It's ridiculous I know.. But he even knows the exact timing of my pandas! He doesn't want "automated acceptance" of hits. I'm gonna link some of the emails, one sec. It's rich.

 

[Raven]

Here is the first one I got. Bleh at the time.

Miki Mullor[mod edit - removed emails]
To
Jessica Vaughn
CC
Jobaline
Today at 1:39 AM
Jessica,

I'm co-founder and CTO of Jobaline.

let me first assure you that there is no ill intend on Jobaline's part. Our company was founded to help people find jobs - so we definitely wouldn't want to hurt the same people we're trying to help

I'm reviewing your responses to our hits personally.

are you using some kind of an automation software to accept our HITs?

Thanks

Miki

 

[DONTDOIT]

Here is the first one I got. Bleh at the time.

Miki Mullor[mod edit - removed emails]
To
Jessica Vaughn
CC
Jobaline
Today at 1:39 AM
Jessica,

I'm co-founder and CTO of Jobaline.

let me first assure you that there is no ill intend on Jobaline's part. Our company was founded to help people find jobs - so we definitely wouldn't want to hurt the same people we're trying to help

I'm reviewing your responses to our hits personally.

are you using some kind of an automation software to accept our HITs?

Thanks

Miki

Shit you can fill your queue just by pressing f5....

 

[MisterEgo]

Jobaline = DON'T DO IT, heh. There's a reason Jobaline's TO is deep red across the board with 20 reviews, but people keep thinking 'it won't happen to me'.

Maybe I should try them... cuz... you know...

 

[Raven]

Shift you can fill your queue just by pressing f5....

EXACTLY, thats what I told him. Either that, refresh or whatever. But then I get this:

Today at 2:35 AM
Jessica,
Amazon reports that you have accepted all these HITs each within 2 seconds of the previous one.
I will address with them next week to understand how can that happen.
Best
Miki

Show original message

 

[Lepi]

Shift you can fill your queue just by pressing f5....

Damn you whippersnappers and your new fangled button technology. Back in my day, our queue would only hold 3 jobs, and we had to accept them via telegram. And we LIKED it!

 

[clickhappier]

I've been emailing back and forth with their CTO all freakin' night long. I am trying to talk sense into him. They are rejecting cause you used pandas to fill your queue. LOL

From what it says in the most recent TO review, someone apparently submitted an incorrect answer by mistake on just 1 HIT and then all of their 180ish pending HITs from Jobaline were rejected instead of just that one. That sounds like the main issue may be just having had so many pending at once to be more vulnerable to that effect, nothing to do with how they were accepted, just that that caused the affected workers to have more done before earlier ones would get approved (or not).

[edit: I see while I wrote this, a specific email was quoted where Jobaline did indeed complain about accept times, wtf]

 

[Lepi]

EXACTLY, thats what I told him. Either that, refresh or whatever. But then I get this:

Today at 2:35 AM
Jessica,
Amazon reports that you have accepted all these HITs each within 2 seconds of the previous one.
I will address with them next week to understand how can that happen.
Best
Miki

Show original message

...I seriously can't even comprehend why it would matter when you accept the HIT... unless they, for some reason, don't want you to queue them up at all.

Maybe it's vitally important to them to know exactly how much time you're spending on every single HIT.

 

[MisterEgo]

And we LIKED it!

Uphill both ways?

 

[Raven]

...I seriously can't even comprehend why it would matter when you accept the HIT... unless they, for some reason, don't want you to queue them up at all.

Maybe it's vitally important to them to know exactly how much time you're spending on every single HIT.

I told him if he really doesn't want us queuing, then mention it in the hit. I wasn't really affected, but I know several workers who's quality dropped like a rock..

 

[Lepi]

Uphill both ways?

No. Ew. FFS, I'm not your age.

 

[Azazael]

holy shit.....that is insane. i just came back from making breakfast and read that TO

 

[Lepi]

Ooh snap. People are even going after Jobaline on their Facebook page.