diff --git a/apps/workers/crawlerWorker.ts b/apps/workers/crawlerWorker.ts
index f607234e..c8141d39 100644
--- a/apps/workers/crawlerWorker.ts
+++ b/apps/workers/crawlerWorker.ts
@@ -166,20 +166,20 @@ export class CrawlerWorker {
           /* timeoutSec */ serverConfig.crawler.jobTimeoutSec,
         ),
         onComplete: async (job) => {
-          const jobId = job?.id ?? "unknown";
+          const jobId = job.id;
           logger.info(`[Crawler][${jobId}] Completed successfully`);
-          const bookmarkId = job?.data.bookmarkId;
+          const bookmarkId = job.data.bookmarkId;
           if (bookmarkId) {
             await changeBookmarkStatus(bookmarkId, "success");
           }
         },
         onError: async (job) => {
-          const jobId = job?.id ?? "unknown";
+          const jobId = job.id;
           logger.error(
             `[Crawler][${jobId}] Crawling job failed: ${job.error}\n${job.error.stack}`,
           );
           const bookmarkId = job.data?.bookmarkId;
-          if (bookmarkId) {
+          if (bookmarkId && job.numRetriesLeft == 0) {
             await changeBookmarkStatus(bookmarkId, "failure");
           }
         },
diff --git a/apps/workers/openaiWorker.ts b/apps/workers/openaiWorker.ts
index 571d5b73..948e92a7 100644
--- a/apps/workers/openaiWorker.ts
+++ b/apps/workers/openaiWorker.ts
@@ -68,16 +68,18 @@ export class OpenAiWorker {
       {
         run: runOpenAI,
         onComplete: async (job) => {
-          const jobId = job?.id ?? "unknown";
+          const jobId = job.id;
           logger.info(`[inference][${jobId}] Completed successfully`);
-          await attemptMarkTaggingStatus(job?.data, "success");
+          await attemptMarkTaggingStatus(job.data, "success");
         },
         onError: async (job) => {
-          const jobId = job?.id ?? "unknown";
+          const jobId = job.id;
           logger.error(
             `[inference][${jobId}] inference job failed: ${job.error}\n${job.error.stack}`,
           );
-          await attemptMarkTaggingStatus(job?.data, "failure");
+          if (job.numRetriesLeft == 0) {
+            await attemptMarkTaggingStatus(job?.data, "failure");
+          }
         },
       },
       {
@@ -387,7 +389,7 @@ async function connectTags(
 }
 
 async function runOpenAI(job: DequeuedJob<ZOpenAIRequest>) {
-  const jobId = job.id ?? "unknown";
+  const jobId = job.id;
 
   const inferenceClient = InferenceClientFactory.build();
   if (!inferenceClient) {
diff --git a/apps/workers/searchWorker.ts b/apps/workers/searchWorker.ts
index d2f1dffc..1fbdbe73 100644
--- a/apps/workers/searchWorker.ts
+++ b/apps/workers/searchWorker.ts
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@ export class SearchIndexingWorker {
       {
         run: runSearchIndexing,
         onComplete: (job) => {
-          const jobId = job?.id ?? "unknown";
+          const jobId = job.id;
           logger.info(`[search][${jobId}] Completed successfully`);
           return Promise.resolve();
         },
         onError: (job) => {
-          const jobId = job?.id ?? "unknown";
+          const jobId = job.id;
           logger.error(
             `[search][${jobId}] search job failed: ${job.error}\n${job.error.stack}`,
           );
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ async function runDelete(
 }
 
 async function runSearchIndexing(job: DequeuedJob<ZSearchIndexingRequest>) {
-  const jobId = job.id ?? "unknown";
+  const jobId = job.id;
 
   const request = zSearchIndexingRequestSchema.safeParse(job.data);
   if (!request.success) {
diff --git a/apps/workers/tidyAssetsWorker.ts b/apps/workers/tidyAssetsWorker.ts
index c70736f2..bea0b7d9 100644
--- a/apps/workers/tidyAssetsWorker.ts
+++ b/apps/workers/tidyAssetsWorker.ts
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@ export class TidyAssetsWorker {
       {
         run: runTidyAssets,
         onComplete: (job) => {
-          const jobId = job?.id ?? "unknown";
+          const jobId = job.id;
           logger.info(`[tidyAssets][${jobId}] Completed successfully`);
           return Promise.resolve();
         },
         onError: (job) => {
-          const jobId = job?.id ?? "unknown";
+          const jobId = job.id;
           logger.error(
             `[tidyAssets][${jobId}] tidy assets job failed: ${job.error}\n${job.error.stack}`,
           );
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ async function handleAsset(
 }
 
 async function runTidyAssets(job: DequeuedJob<ZTidyAssetsRequest>) {
-  const jobId = job.id ?? "unknown";
+  const jobId = job.id;
 
   const request = zTidyAssetsRequestSchema.safeParse(job.data);
   if (!request.success) {
diff --git a/apps/workers/videoWorker.ts b/apps/workers/videoWorker.ts
index a85a8cae..444448f7 100644
--- a/apps/workers/videoWorker.ts
+++ b/apps/workers/videoWorker.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ import {
 } from "@hoarder/shared/assetdb";
 import serverConfig from "@hoarder/shared/config";
 import logger from "@hoarder/shared/logger";
-import { VideoWorkerQueue, ZVideoRequest } from "@hoarder/shared/queues";
+import {
+  VideoWorkerQueue,
+  ZVideoRequest,
+  zvideoRequestSchema,
+} from "@hoarder/shared/queues";
 
 import { withTimeout } from "./utils";
 import { getBookmarkDetails, updateAsset } from "./workerUtils";
@@ -33,14 +37,14 @@ export class VideoWorker {
           /* timeoutSec */ serverConfig.crawler.downloadVideoTimeout,
         ),
         onComplete: async (job) => {
-          const jobId = job?.id ?? "unknown";
+          const jobId = job.id;
           logger.info(
             `[VideoCrawler][${jobId}] Video Download Completed successfully`,
           );
           return Promise.resolve();
         },
         onError: async (job) => {
-          const jobId = job?.id ?? "unknown";
+          const jobId = job.id;
           logger.error(
             `[VideoCrawler][${jobId}] Video Download job failed: ${job.error}`,
           );
@@ -51,6 +55,7 @@ export class VideoWorker {
         pollIntervalMs: 1000,
         timeoutSecs: serverConfig.crawler.downloadVideoTimeout,
         concurrency: 1,
+        validator: zvideoRequestSchema,
       },
     );
   }
@@ -71,7 +76,7 @@ function prepareYtDlpArguments(url: string, assetPath: string) {
 }
 
 async function runWorker(job: DequeuedJob<ZVideoRequest>) {
-  const jobId = job.id ?? "unknown";
+  const jobId = job.id;
   const { bookmarkId } = job.data;
 
   const {