Does your occasional care sitter have a cancelation policy?

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Anonymous wrote:No. But I might be ok with this for my best sitter, who is truly exceptional. When I cancel with sitters I tend to book a rain check day - "let's do next week instead," etc.

So what? Your sitter still missed income for the day you canceled.

Y’all suck. If I cancel on anyone providing a service for me at a point where they can’t fill that time slot, I pay 100%. Based on folk’s reactions, I am clearly in the minority.

Does this include your Dr?

If I cancel a Dr's appointment after their STATED cancellation period, yes, I pay the stated fee they may charge.

Which is what? $20? Way less than your Dr would bill for should you have shown up. I guarantee you are not billed for the full appointment cost.

While your Dr may not be an hourly employee, they are likely compensated based on their productivity.

Doctors and babysitters are apples and oranges. Babysitters are not bringing home half a million dollars a year.

Canceling is canceling. The babysitter isn’t somehow more deserving to collect wages for a canceled engagement bc she makes less.

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Anonymous wrote:What I see here is again, the frustrating notation that caring for other peoples children is not true work, and certainly not work that demands a professional relationship and professional courtesies.

She sounds like he’s smart, and running her business in such a way to weed out clients who don’t take her time or efforts seriously. I would fully support someone like this, because she is also likely to give good care as to not jeopardize that business or reputation.

This. I used to do babysitting as an adult. I treated it like a part-time jon and took it as seriously as my full time job. To my families, I was worth my weight in gold.

If you want to use high schoolers, you can treat them however and they’ll probably just deal. But I was in high demand and could be picky because of that. I never wanted for jobs with great families who treated me with respect.

Ok. And if you end up sick the day before your colonoscopy, please remit $1500 to your Dr for his unfilled endoscopy room time. Otherwise you are cheap and don’t respect his time

Most doctors are part of a large group and they have contracts of their yearly income irrespective of whether they perform 100 or 200 Colonoscopies a year. Also, I doubt they give a rat's behind as they just go on to the next patient in their assembly line practice. You must be the only person on earth who feels sorry for doctors.

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Anonymous wrote:No. But I might be ok with this for my best sitter, who is truly exceptional. When I cancel with sitters I tend to book a rain check day - "let's do next week instead," etc.

So what? Your sitter still missed income for the day you canceled.

Y’all suck. If I cancel on anyone providing a service for me at a point where they can’t fill that time slot, I pay 100%. Based on folk’s reactions, I am clearly in the minority.

Does this include your Dr?

If I cancel a Dr's appointment after their STATED cancellation period, yes, I pay the stated fee they may charge.

Which is what? $20? Way less than your Dr would bill for should you have shown up. I guarantee you are not billed for the full appointment cost.

While your Dr may not be an hourly employee, they are likely compensated based on their productivity.

I said I pay the stated fee. Which is NEVER $20, btw. And please spare me the sob story for a doctor, vs. the woman who is a small business owner who paints my nails.

There ARE doctors whose stated cancelation fee is the entire appointment charge, FYI.

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Anonymous wrote:No. But I might be ok with this for my best sitter, who is truly exceptional. When I cancel with sitters I tend to book a rain check day - "let's do next week instead," etc.

So what? Your sitter still missed income for the day you canceled.

Y’all suck. If I cancel on anyone providing a service for me at a point where they can’t fill that time slot, I pay 100%. Based on folk’s reactions, I am clearly in the minority.

Does this include your Dr?

If I cancel a Dr's appointment after their STATED cancellation period, yes, I pay the stated fee they may charge.

Which is what? $20? Way less than your Dr would bill for should you have shown up. I guarantee you are not billed for the full appointment cost.

While your Dr may not be an hourly employee, they are likely compensated based on their productivity.

I said I pay the stated fee. Which is NEVER $20, btw. And please spare me the sob story for a doctor, vs. the woman who is a small business owner who paints my nails.

There ARE doctors whose stated cancelation fee is the entire appointment charge, FYI.

We charge the full visit fee with inadequate notice of cancellation or no show. Standard. You expect to be paid for your office hours whether a meeting is canceled or not, your doctor isn’t crazy out of line to expect the same. The babysitter is as well.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Our favorite sitter has a four hour minimum and a full payment cancellation policy. I never pushed it but I think it’s longer that 48 hours, too.

Why should she lose money? She undoubtedly turned down other jobs for your job.

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My 17 year old daughter is a sought-after babysitter and is working hard to save money for college in September. She will easily get three requests to babysit on the weekends. It’s infuriating how many parents will cancel the day of her scheduled jobs with no thought or compensation. She turned Dow other jobs to accept the cancellers. It’s truly unfair.

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Anonymous wrote:My 17 year old daughter is a sought-after babysitter and is working hard to save money for college in September. She will easily get three requests to babysit on the weekends. It’s infuriating how many parents will cancel the day of her scheduled jobs with no thought or compensation. She turned Dow other jobs to accept the cancellers. It’s truly unfair.

It really is. Can she start asking for half payments in order to book the date and if they cancel, she gets to keep it? Or do what the sitter here is and have a policy?

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Anonymous wrote:My 17 year old daughter is a sought-after babysitter and is working hard to save money for college in September. She will easily get three requests to babysit on the weekends. It’s infuriating how many parents will cancel the day of her scheduled jobs with no thought or compensation. She turned Dow other jobs to accept the cancellers. It’s truly unfair.

She should have a cancellation policy and a four hour minimum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 17 year old daughter is a sought-after babysitter and is working hard to save money for college in September. She will easily get three requests to babysit on the weekends. It’s infuriating how many parents will cancel the day of her scheduled jobs with no thought or compensation. She turned Dow other jobs to accept the cancellers. It’s truly unfair.

Neighbors never seem to realize that teen babysitters have mothers too. And judgements about how unfair and cheap some younger parents are.

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Anonymous wrote:My 17 year old daughter is a sought-after babysitter and is working hard to save money for college in September. She will easily get three requests to babysit on the weekends. It’s infuriating how many parents will cancel the day of her scheduled jobs with no thought or compensation. She turned Dow other jobs to accept the cancellers. It’s truly unfair.

Neighbors never seem to realize that teen babysitters have mothers too. And judgements about how unfair and cheap some younger parents are.

+1.

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Anonymous wrote:My 17 year old daughter is a sought-after babysitter and is working hard to save money for college in September. She will easily get three requests to babysit on the weekends. It’s infuriating how many parents will cancel the day of her scheduled jobs with no thought or compensation. She turned Dow other jobs to accept the cancellers. It’s truly unfair.

Neighbors never seem to realize that teen babysitters have mothers too. And judgements about how unfair and cheap some younger parents are.

+1.

+2. My own mother completely black-balled and ostracized a neighborhood who treated me horribly as her babysitter. I can actually see this happening in our neighborhood if someone continued to cancel on a one babysitter whose mom is the queen bee.

[Anonymous]

I would NEVER cancel on a babysitter without paying for the agreed upon time.

Completely reasonable for the sitter to want to formalize this rather than rely on parents to be good people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 17 year old daughter is a sought-after babysitter and is working hard to save money for college in September. She will easily get three requests to babysit on the weekends. It’s infuriating how many parents will cancel the day of her scheduled jobs with no thought or compensation. She turned Dow other jobs to accept the cancellers. It’s truly unfair.

She should have some kind of cancellation policy. It's incredibly disrespectful when people do this.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm going to take a gander that many families who hire care, especially in an area like this, make quite a bit more than the person they're hiring. $80+ loss to the babysitter will be a bigger impact than for the parent. "Money hungry" is laughable.

"Take a gander" means take a look. I think you mean "take a wager."

[Anonymous]

DH and I were supposed to have a date night tonight but it seems that I've come down with food poisoning or norovirus within the last couple hours. I already Venmoed the sitter the full $120 she would have made. It's not her fault I'm cancelling and I want her to come back again- my kids ADORE. her!