How long did they take to send your SRT Email?

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I was recently trained and passed my assessments for Flamingo Preference Ranking w/o Criteria after completing some work for Goldfish Seashell. I no longer see Goldfish Seashell on Slack or Discourse and I’m currently a Bulba Rating Mint reviewer, but I keep getting random projects to train for.

After supposedly passing my Flamingo assessments, the instructions said I needed a VPN to complete tasks and that I would get an email with SRT credentials to log in. But I’m seeing people on discourse saying they’ve been waiting up to over 1 week for this email. I currently have tasks available in my queue but don’t want to work on them without VPN in fear of getting booted. I also don’t want to lose that many days of work just because they’re dragging on sending the email. The instructions document claims it takes about 2 or so days but we all know how this company works.

I barely passed all my training assessments yesterday but have no clue how long I’ll be waiting for the email. So for anyone who’s worked or is currently working on Flamingo, how long did they take to send your SRT credentials?

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That part isn’t Outliers’ fault. I had to wait about 12 days because the client had paused the project for budget reasons. Then they stopped letting Outlier assign anymore SRT credentials until the end of June. Fill out the request form they’ve pinned on Slack and/or Discourse.

And make sure you have correctly installed the VPN and can connect to it via the Flamingo creds you generate yourself. That’s what I did while waiting for my SRT creds so I was ready to start tasking when I received them. Make sure you’ve created a separate Google Chrome profile using the Flamingo creds, etc. if needed. I’ve seen so many people delayed by weeks just because they couldn’t figure out how to set up and connect to the VPN.

Also- check your email, spam folder, and Outlier announcements on your dashboard for the creds. You never know how they will be sent to you.

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I never got my SRT credentials through email. They randomly showed up in a notification on my Outlier dashboard!

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literally exact same situation, same projects as well. just going to wait for now…

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How soon did you find out you passed the first certification? Not the assessment. It’s the one before downloading the vpn.

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I reached out to support earlier and they sent me that link, I already filled it out. Not sure how to install the VPN if I can’t even access SRT and there’s no links on the instruction sheet to help me download it. I don’t want to go downloading a random VPN to my computer if they possibly end up not sending me SRT credentials.

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Thanks just filled it out. I only completed the assessments a few hours ago now so I’m guessing there’s a long wait time ahead of me

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That link still works? I have passed the assessments and I still have no way to start doing tasks because I don’t receive the mail with the credentials

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I just got this email from support. I filled out the response form so hopefully they won’t take forever to send me my credentials. Also, I’m assuming by the highlighted statement that we can work on tasks available in our queue, and if SRT is needed to complete the task they’ll inform us. He doesn’t say anything about being kicked off for tasking without VPN since I guess not all tasks require SRT. I’ll start tasking and see what happens. Pray for me T-T lol

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Like immediately. They didn’t directly tell me I passed but I was able to start tasking right after.

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The instructions are posted to both Slack and Discourse. Under pinned posts. If you end up leaving the project, you can uninstall the VPN. You’re only supposed to connect to it when you’re tasking.

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Good to know. Thanks.

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Awesome, thanks! How will they know I’ve downloaded the VPN?

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Haha I actually have no idea. But they know. I think they check the Flamingo creds you generated with the VPN use. Who knows lol