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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, you should pay a reduced rate. Your mistake was letting it go the first time, but now you need to bring it up and let her know you’ll stick with the xx/hr rate you initially discussed and pay her for however many hours she actually works. I personally wouldn’t deduct anything if she’s like 15 mins late, but if she’s more than 30 mins late, I’d pay 1/2 he less.

I once had a college age sitter for pretty much exactly the same thing - I was a SAHM and wanted 1 morning a week to go to appointments and run errands etc. The only sitter I could find was super unreliable. It started off with being a little late or asking to leave a little early and then switching days last minute…not great.  I think because I was a SAHM, she figured whatever, I was not that important and who cares if I had to rearrange plans. She needed to make a certain amount every month to pay her cell phone bill or something and always wanted to try to make up the hours another time, but it hardly ever worked out to be worth it to me. I eventually had much better luck using a neighbor’s full time nanny when her usual charge was in preschool or K, but the family wanted to keep her on for afternoons. She was very professional, always on time!  [/quote]

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