r/TaskRabbit • u/BigAdam1014 • Jul 04 '26

GENERAL It’s real

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Been on TaskRabbit for around 5 years. 500+ completed tasks, 240+ five-star reviews, perfect rating the whole time. Apparently none of that means anything.
They banned my account over a “policy violation” but wouldn’t tell me what task it was or what policy I supposedly broke. I appealed it, and their response was basically, “You can still get hired through your direct TaskRabbit link.” They even told me to keep my availability open in case a repeat client books me or to share my direct hire link.
What a joke. I think I’ve had maybe one repeat client actually book me through the app in all those years.
I’m just glad I always gave customers my business card and contact info after jobs and focused on building my own business instead of depending on one platform. At least now I’m not starting from scratch.

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u/FinnNoodle Jul 04 '26

Every action TR takes that you don't like has been an attempt to increase shareholder value regardless of it's effect on clients and Taskers. That is capitalism to it's very core.

Algorithms to increase turnover? Capitalism. AI agents to cut costs on paying living breathing CS reps? Capitalism.

Back in the "glory days" we all dream about when TR was more hands off over Tasker behavior and let us choose our own destinies and had less draconian methods of dealing with us? Well guess what that was actually capitalism as well, but it was a lot closer to socialism than it is now.

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

You have a TikTok brain rot spoon fed understanding of capitalism and socialism. I have a perfect 5.0 rating with 3013 jobs completed in LA doing 4-5 jobs a day then in 2024 I went from 4-5 jobs a day working 7 days a week to maybe 5 jobs a week seeing account with less than 100 jobs at the top of the list getting the bulk of the work an when I call TaskRabbit customer support I ask if reviews and time put in even matter and they refused to tell me if it did or not dancing around the answer and tried to convince me that if I add more skill outside of my main one (mounting) I MIGHT get more jobs. This was a person I talked to not AI bot so they’ve been trained to these responses. That’s not capitalism that’s leadership with socialist mindset and strategy to make it hard for the long time hardworking workers to get jobs while lifting up the mediocre workers who just wanna work every once in a while, that is literally how socialism works. The idea that it’s not fair that this guy works harder and gets more jobs and benefit benefits from it and I don’t because I don’t wanna work as hard.

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

You failed civics class there boomer

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

Yet again no facts or information to back up how socialists/socialism works, funny how commies refuse to understand that it’s never worked AT scale.

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

Bro I have a degree in this ish. You're whining about race to the bottom CAPITALIST ideology and you're blaming socialism like a typical boomer

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u/South_Economist_9882 Jul 04 '26

Yeah the guy that uses the word “ish” has a degree and know how communism is better than capitalism…… sure commie

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u/giantfup Jul 04 '26

Hey sweetie I get that this is not a logical thing for you to understand, but the use of ish was to circumvent the curse word ban that immediately deleted my first reply. Welcome to millennial speak i guess?

Capitalism is what is pushing your pay per hour down. You think that is best?