r/WorkOnline

Heyyyy, does anyone have any suggestions on where I can find transcription jobs to make some money without experience that are actually legit?

I have worked in data annotation for years across multiple platforms. I have NEVER been treated like this. Not once.

I completed a video evaluation project for Uber AI Solutions. Here's what happened:

What they promised:

$6.25 per completed task (then cut to $4.12, then cut AGAIN to $2.08 — ALL mid-project)

$25/hour equivalent

Payment within 14-21 working days

What I got:

$13.10 for 12 hours of work and 313 submitted tasks

Over a month of COMPLETE SILENCE after the project ended

Copy-paste non-answer emails every time I followed up

No task breakdown, no reconciled payment report, NOTHING

To put that in perspective: $13.10 for 12 hours = $1.09/hour. ONE DOLLAR AND NINE CENTS PER HOUR.

I am NOT alone. Other contractors are reporting the SAME issues with this company — unpaid work, ignored disputes, and ZERO accountability.

This company is a subsidiary of Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER). They market themselves as a professional AI data platform. They are NOT. They exploit skilled multilingual contractors and COUNT ON PEOPLE GIVING UP.

DO NOT do their language tests. DO NOT do their assessments. DO NOT give them a single minute of your time.

Report them to the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov. Leave reviews on Glassdoor and Trustpilot. MAKE NOISE.

I am pursuing formal complaints. Happy to answer questions in the comments.

EDIT: To clarify since there seems to be some confusion — 313 TASKS, not hours. I worked for 12 hours total and completed 313 individual tasks during that time. Each task was advertised at a 2-4 minute completion time at $6.25 per task. I was paid $13.10 total. That is $1.09 per hour or approximately $0.04 per task. Also worth noting — they advertised $25/hour equivalent alongside $6.25 per task with a 2-4 minute AHT. These numbers are mathematically inconsistent with each other and CANNOT all be true simultaneously. At 2-4 minutes per task you would earn between $93-$187 per hour, not $25. They used inflated and contradictory figures to make the pay sound attractive. That is not a mistake — that is deliberate deception and abusive business practice. Hope that clears it up.

Uber AI Solutions has now been holding my payments since February and I honestly don’t know what to do.

The issue started with my W-8BEN/payment verification being stuck for over a month. Support kept replying with the same generic "your case has been escalated" messages without actually fixing anything.

After weeks of trying, I was finally contacted by Eoin from Uber Priority Support. He actually seemed to understand the issue, and shortly after that a new option to upload bank details appeared in my account, so it looked like the problem was finally being resolved.

Because of that, I continued working. But the payments still never came.

Now the unpaid amount is over €2700. All completed work and earnings are still visible in my Task History, but I cannot access any of the money.

What also worries me is that I’m starting to see more and more people describing similar experiences, for example, u/Large-Cut8248 told me he worked 12 hours and got paid only $13...

Meanwhile, my conversation with Eoin from priority support got archived, I can’t reply anymore, email replies fail instantly, and ai support just keeps sending template responses.

What makes this even more frustrating is that when I contacted general Uber support, they told me they cannot help with account-specific issues and that I need to contact them using the email connected to the affected account - which is exactly what I was already doing. I use the same email for Uber AI Solutions and Uber Eats, but these systems are apparently completely separate and cannot be linked, but the support would not acknowledge it...

Honestly, after 3 months of no payments and no real support (other than Eoin), this whole situation is starting to look extremely shady.

Has anyone actually managed to recover their payments from them?

I've tried applying to teleperformance and have attempted multiple of their assessment test for nearly a year now and to no avail. Is their something I can do to improve? What area in my application process do you think could be the problem.

Has anyone heard of or worked with a company called Always Quinnly? Is this legit?

I recently applied for a remote Design & Client Coordination Specialist role with a U.S.-based company called Always Quinnly (also referred to as Quinn Fenwick in some emails).

I got shortlisted pretty quickly and had an interview scheduled over Zoom barely lasted 15 minutes.

They also mentioned that I’d have to start working immediately as in this Monday. They did not switch their video on during the meeting or talk about the company.
I just had a feeling telling me something’s off?

Has anyone ever worked with them? Or heard of them?

Any advice or suggestions would be helpful on how to proceed.

I tried to post this before but couldn’t see any responses. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Looking into the company. I would have to buy a pc laptop because I only have Mac’s so advice would go a long way.

Can people go into detail when people say you have to mostly train yourself? Is it on the work or the computer applications? What computer applications do they use such as zoom teams Microsoft Outlook etc?

I have a medical condition that would limit me from working 8 full hours a day so I’m thinking this would be a good fit. Any options or tips?