Don’t Hire Gig Workers to Wait In Line for Your COVID-19 Test
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4adxbj/dont-hire-gig-workers-to-wait-in-line-for-your-covid-19-test
Over the weekend, a TikTok video went viral advertising a tip to bypass waiting in long lines for COVID-19 testing: hiring a gig worker to wait for you.
A now-deleted TikTok video from user @thetipguyNYC explains that viewers looking to hire someone else to wait for hours among possibly-infected people should use TaskRabbit, a platform for hiring people to do just about anything you don’t want to. The video advises viewers to "filter by cheapest available" and to instruct the worker to give them a call when they’re at the front of the line.