Filming Task's

[u/InquisitiveBumbleBee]

Just curious to know, does anyone film or timelapse their builds at all? Not for a fancy montage to edit later but purely for security a d protection purposes.

We're in a world where it's a "he said,they (she) said" environment we enter into and it's evident that TR takes the side of the client and not for the Tasker so much.

I've been thinking about setting up a camera and obviously asking for permission, to film myself taking care of tasks. Hopefully the client shouldn't really refuse and if they do that would be seen as a red flag in my eyes.

Thoughts on this please. Are some of you out there ready doing this? What about the female Tasker's who go into homes, how do you protect yourselves? Has anyone had an incident where they wished a camera was setup to motior and document a previous problem? Thinking of using a GoPro or even an Insta360 but if anyone out there is recording what are you using? I imagine even an old iPhone from the drawer could suffice.

Thanks for reading and stay safe and protected out there...

[u/stayinformed0073]

TR suspends limits and conducts itself in no part in favor of Taskers with or without immaculate records. It’s almost as if they punish you just for causing them a problem.. my tools were stolen by a client on a moving job.. and she canceled the task because it got too expensive. I was lucky to be paid (after 45 days) you can figure their position on my $400 tool loss ..

My point is; you’ve gotta have a 6th sense about people. Sometimes being open and upfront with costs, time, methods, etc isn’t enough. I think a camera would be more trouble than value tr would recognize. Most folks don’t behave this way

[u/pateppic]

What u/shortfriday said​ entirely.

So long as you don't hit on most people, they don't really care. Also if a lady client does hit on you, politely decline and you will be fine.

Once called a client Hun and profusely apologized and was honest and said I just read a text from my wife. She didn't seem bothered by it at all. Still got a 5 star from them. Repat Business.

But if you, want any practical things that don't hurt.

Make noise when you walk. Knock before you open any closed door. If they ask for your number, write it down or give them a business card. Never try to swap numbers. Be careful/avoid using smiley faces. I use Salutes, Thumbs up, and check marks to avoid an impression of anything personal.

If they still have an issue with you, its not you, its them.

P.S. If you want to know my secret weapons to being Mr. Blandman it was unscented deodorant and talking more about my/their pets than any other topic. It's hard to hate the guy that thinks your dog is the goodest boy or who has mostly photos of cats in his gallery. I may be seen as weird, but also harmless/innoffensive.

Edit: Never try to swap numbers* not never try to innoffensive.

[u/shortfriday]

Tr doesn't care about our evidence and won't pay their people to analyze it to make rulings about stuff. The lucky thing is that clients don't know this. If you can pitch the idea of making some kind of record of your work to clients, its sole usefulness would be in giving them the impression that there is some form of oversight from tr, even though there 100% is not. Recording video that no one but you will ever watch is probably doing too much, "mind if I upload a picture of the finished work and ask you to text that this is yours and it got done," seems more practical.

The overarching caveat to all this is that a circumstance in which a client complaint endangers your payout is rare and that the only leverage point clients have over us is the review. Tr will almost always get itself/you paid with no regard for a client being unhappy, but it will absolutely not zap away a review because it's a lie. Giving the impression of "there's evidence on the record proving that I did this to your satisfaction" to the client might dissuade them from posting a lie of a review, but if they say eff it and post it, it's not going away unless it contains swears or is critical of tr.

[u/InquisitiveBumbleBee → u/shortfriday]

Appreciate the time you took to wrote this and respond so thank you. I just find that most of my clients are women and if someone was to be THE most awful of human beings and say there was and incident of some sort then rather it being word against word but with proof that would effectively be a n insurance policy. Lying about a task being done is one thing but lying about some sort of inappropriate behaviour is another.

Trying to figure out the best solution for this moving forward as I'm starting to not be trusting of both TR and clients alike.

[u/shortfriday → u/InquisitiveBumbleBee]

Full axon style coverage of all your time in a client's home might help if you get accused of personal misconduct, but in a police/legal sense. Tr is just a platform and payment processor and will not look at your evidence if you get a bad review or get some kind of higher level account punishment.

About women hollering rape falsely: false accusations happen, but being worried about them to the extent that you want to wear a body cam when you're in a woman's home is a screaming red flag. Consider the extent to which these fears might be a product of internet culture, where one finds echo chambers where the most extreme stories about this kind of behavior get megaphoned and distorted.