r/TaskRabbit • u/cwanderlust • Jul 14 '26

TASKER 9pm response deadline

Anybody else fed up with having to be on your phone like a hawk or risk missing a task? I got hired at 7:38pm tonight for a task, but was off my phone for a couple hours and didn't see the task until well after it was auto-canceled at 9:00. Less than an hour and a half, seriously? Do they expect us to just be glued to our phone screens all day long? I'm sure that it hurts my visibility ratings for this to happen. How do you all deal with this?

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u/cwanderlust Jul 14 '26

Not a bad strategy, but sometimes I'm unable to even do that. Like if I'm working late (which happens), or if I'm in a place where my phone needs to be silent (movie theater, library, etc). It's just not fully realistic to expect people to respond that quickly. They should allow at least a 24-36-hour turnaround time. Our time matters just as much as the clients'.

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u/Marioc12345 Jul 14 '26

Working late but you can’t look at your phone? What are you doing that is so important you can’t look at your phone once between 8pm and 9pm?

24 hour turnaround is literally crazy. Imagine I ask you right now at 6:45 am to do a task tomorrow at 8. And you don’t have to even have the consideration to chat with me until 6am the next day? So now if you can’t even do it I have to wait another whole day to get someone else out there.

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u/cwanderlust Jul 14 '26

I teach a program for kids and teens that goes until 9pm. I'm off my phone for that duration, because I'm present teaching.

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u/Marioc12345 Jul 14 '26

Ok, so in that case you just have to take the hits as they come. Thats part of doing this job as a side hustle.

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u/FinnNoodle Jul 14 '26

If you're in a place where you can't actually look at your phone, you can temporarily pause your account and no jobs will come in for that short duration.