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Doesn't this PR work underline the darker side of TaskRabbit, or at least clearly demonstrate that TakRabbit is leveraging income disparity to profit? That is, some people either want or need money enough that they are willing pull a 90 hour shift so someone else with spare money can get an expensive phone arbitrarily early.
I genuinely don't get it. Can someone please explain why the hell anyone would queue up like this? Food, water, medicine, supplies - yes. Shiny telephone - no.
They consider it fun, something to do, a chance to hang around for a little bit with some people that are interested in some of the same things they're interested in.
Doesn't this PR work underline the darker side of TaskRabbit, or at least clearly demonstrate that TakRabbit is leveraging income disparity to profit? That is, some people either want or need money enough that they are willing pull a 90 hour shift so someone else with spare money can get an expensive phone arbitrarily early.
So what's wrong with this? People are not being forced to do anything.
And, a few hours later, I queued up at the same Apple store and walked out of the store 20 minutes later with my iPhone 5. I suppose you can never know in advance, but this time they still had hundreds in stock at noon.
And, a few hours later, I queued up at the same Apple store and walked out of the store 20 minutes later with my iPhone 5. I suppose you can never know in advance, but this time they still had hundreds in stock at noon.
Doesn't this PR work underline the darker side of TaskRabbit, or at least clearly demonstrate that TakRabbit is leveraging income disparity to profit? That is, some people either want or need money enough that they are willing pull a 90 hour shift so someone else with spare money can get an expensive phone arbitrarily early.
Doesn't this PR work underline the darker side of TaskRabbit, or at least clearly demonstrate that TakRabbit is leveraging income disparity to profit? That is, some people either want or need money enough that they are willing pull a 90 hour shift so someone else with spare money can get an expensive phone arbitrarily early.
Saw the line outside the Apple store here in Pasadena this morning and thought "Task Rabbit". Now the REAL question, how much did this guy make for his 90 hours of standing in line???
I was going to say, "it's in the article" then I went back and realized it's not in the post (I think it was in previous posts about it). Kinda surprised since they could have done a lot of PR with, "THIS GUY MADE 1500!"
Doesn't this PR work underline the darker side of TaskRabbit, or at least clearly demonstrate that TakRabbit is leveraging income disparity to profit? That is, some people either want or need money enough that they are willing pull a 90 hour shift so someone else with spare money can get an expensive phone arbitrarily early.
It has the potential to become exploitive, but until companies start hiring employees through task rabbit in batches of 90 hour shifts, I'm not going to worry about it.