r/TaskRabbit

Client set up a camera pointed right at me

As the title says, I show up at a job, start opening boxes to assemble furniture and the client quietly comes into the room and sets up a camera pointed in my direction less than 2 metres from where I’m standing, then walks out of the room like this is the most normal thing to do, not a word.

It’s worth mentioning I’m a woman, working alone at this man’s house. I immediately stopped what I was doing and went after him to say I didn’t feel comfortable with that, he argued for a while and said the camera feed went to his wife, but did end up taking it down when he saw I wasn’t having it.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there a world in which this would be appropriate?

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u/namedafternoone — 7 days ago

Who on earth types like this

The weirdest part is that in the chat, he has mostly typed like a normal person. (Although I can already tell this is going to be a problem client. He seemed annoyed that I messaged him right away and told me that I need “schedule” our chat live tonight at a certain time, as if I’m some kind of automaton who is available to chat 24/7 and has no life outside of TaskRabbit.)

Also this job sounds like an absolute pain in the butt in general. Not sure what I’m gonna do.

EDIT: We had a long chat that was full of additional yellow and red flags (in which he would also occasionally revert to talking like a 1940s mob boss). I enjoy occasionally messing with scammers I find on Facebook, and this guy had a lot of the same “ticks” that they do. I ended up not having to forfeit because he canceled when I told him that we can’t send videos over TaskRabbit and I refused to communicate with him on a different app. Good riddance.

u/BreadLobbyist — 8 days ago

App not working great

Does this happen to anyone else? I get a notification but when I click on it, it opens the app to a blank screen. No matter how long I wait, it never moves off or shows anything on the blank screen and I have no option but to close the app and reopen. Any ideas how I see those notifications? If it's a new task, I can find it but messages are lost

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u/Intelligent_Storm812 — 7 days ago

If you suddenly stop getting requests, try this...

I completely stopped getting requests for about the past week. I figured it was due to the slow season.

Then I read on another thread (lost it, sorry) that you should try pausing and unpausing your account because of TR's glitchy, shitty system.

I did that not expecting much and literally 20 minutes later I got two new requests back to back after a week of nothing.

It could be a coincidence, but I kinda doubt it. Give it a shot if you're struggling with lack of requests and let me know how it goes.

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u/Clean-Da-World — 9 days ago

App is down?!

I have to pay a tasker and the app isnt working! It keeps asking for my authorization code and it never sends the damn code. The A.I. feature is beyond helpless. Im so irritated right now

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u/sun-kissedgirlie — 7 days ago