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[quote=Anonymous]I applied to a job listing on care.com two weeks ago. A few days later, she got back to me and said "We'd love to meet you and are doing interviews next Sunday." I responded the next day, saying "I'm sorry but I have plans to spend that day in Baltimore with my Aunt, so next Sunday does not work for me. Is there an evening this week that works for you? I can also do Saturday morning." (That was sent Saturday night.) She responded late Monday night, saying they could do Wednesday at 6:30pm, but that was the one night that now did not work for me (I had been asked Sunday night by a good friend who is in town this week from NY what night I could do dinner, and we made plans for Wednesday at 6pm; when I asked her Tuesday morning she said she could not reschedule as she now had plans Tuesday night and was heading back Thursday evening).

At that point I was starting to feel bad of course; they were trying to make it work for me and then the one night they say they can, I can't. I figured that if I asked to reschedule again they would just say forget it and go with someone else, but I didn't want to just leave them hanging. So I said, Tuesday afternoon "I'm very sorry but I can't do Wednesday. I can do Thursday, Friday, or Saturday morning, or next week." She responded right away and said "let's do Saturday at 8am." And I responded right away to confirm.

Well, last night, I got a call from a family I had interviewed with last week, and they offered me the job. They've been my first choice since the beginning (I applied to three jobs at the same time, but the other two families were much quicker to get back with me and scheduled interviews right away), but I didn't want to put all my eggs in one basket, because I wasn't certain I'd get the job. Well, I've accepted their offer, and I'm starting with them next week. But now I don't know what to do about the family who is expecting to meet with me tomorrow morning. I've been sitting here trying to write a message to them for the last couple hours, but I don't know what to say exactly...

Part of me feels like I should just go to the interview. If I cancel now, at the last minute, after having rescheduled so many times, I'm worried they'll feel like I was just jerking them around, and might leave me a negative care.com review. I don't have any reviews on my care.com profile; I have a ton of great reviews on sittercity, but I don't have any on care. Even though I prefer sittercity in many ways, care does seem to have more jobs, and often better paying ones, too, so I'd like to be able to use it in the future. I honestly think it might be better to just go to the interview (either they don't offer me the job anyway, or if they do I can just say that I don't think we'd be a good fit after all), and I definitely would, except for the facts that it is at 8am on Saturday (when I said I could do Saturday morning I was expecting they'd say 9 or 10am, not 8!), and they also live rather far from me (which is one of many reasons that this family was not my first choice to begin with).

Should I be concerned that they might leave me a negative review for rescheduling the interview twice and then canceling? Should I just go to the interview? Or should I just email them now, the night before my scheduled interview, to say I'm incredibly sorry but I was offered a job by another family last night so I'm canceling for tomorrow?[/quote]

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