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Crowdsurf Work located on MTURK or at crowdsurfwork.com pays their workers garbage. Their average worker earns about 2-4 dollars per hour. To make matters worse, they scrutinize your work and threaten to ban you from working if your "productivity" falls short of a certain criteria. They are located here in the United States and a great deal of folks who work for them are also in the states too. So basically they are paying workers 1/3 the legal minimum wage to work and are getting away with it because their site is on MTURK through Amazon.
Some folks don't have a choice but to work for them because in this economy and with work as hard as it is to find, they do it. CrowdSurf knows all too well they are "sticking it" to their people but just don't care.
A lot of times, after doing work for them, you get GRADED and then threatened that you won't be allowed to work for them anymore if your "productivity" fails. Even the most productive workers out there can earn no more than $6 per hour! It get's better. A lot of times you do work for them and after completing it, the site crashes or locks up left you not getting paid for thier idiotic technical flaws. Overall. If you can help it, stay away from doing business with these people for they are an ONLINE SWEATSHOP, something remeniscent of what people just coming into Ellis Island back in the 1800's had to go through.
THUMBS DOWN AND SHAME ON YOU CROWDSURF!
1 Updates & Rebuttals
CynSyn
Jacksonville,Arkansas,
USA
Independent contracting is not the same as hourly work.
#2UPDATE Employee
Mon, July 20, 2015
I've done independent contractor work for Crowdsurf for over a year now. They offer to pay an amount for a portion of audio work. It is up to the individual contractor to determine how quickly they can transcribe less than a minute of audio at a time. The work itself is very simple as long as you follow the style guide, which is prominently available on every assignment. As far as the work being reviewed, that's how it's supposed to work. Crowdsurf pays people to do that review work. I myself do a lot of review work for them, so I know this is a fact. There are human workers that review the transcription files, and they contract through Mturk the same way the transcribers do. In fact, reviewers have to start out as transcribers, and they usually split their time between reviewing and transcribing.
The guy is griping about the pay per hour, minimum wage, and all of that, but minimum wage has nothing to do with anything other than an hourly pay rate. People on salary often work enough hours that sometimes their break-down rate is around $2 or $4 an hour in a lot of businesses depending on how much work needs to be done. Much like an IC, someone on Salary is paid to do a job, regardless of how long that job might take them. There are also people who work on commissions. They get paid for each sale they make. Much like an IC, someone on commissions is paid to produce a result, regardless of how long that result might take them.
What I'm getting at is the minimum wage argument is not valid in this context. This isn't hourly work. We aren't required to chart our time. We aren't required to be available during certain hours. We aren't even required to work particular files! We can cherry-pick if we want by skipping to the next file. I can't do that at my other job. I have to work what they give me or I get marked down for it and lose priority over assignments. I have to have work turned in by a specific deadline each day or else it counts as me abandoning my assignments. Crowdsurf work has almost complete freedom. As long as there is work available, I work what I want, when I want, for however long I want. If something comes up and I can't finish a HIT, I can return it without penalty. Try doing that at an hourly job and see how long you keep it.