Is there a section where rated nannies have the ability to post a rebuttal?

If so, I would post one telling your side of the story.

Keep it brief & make sure you are courteous regarding the family and do not speak badly of them.

Can you do a response and explain the situation that you had a verbal (or written) agreement to start and when you requested a start date they refused to provide one. You were trying to be flexible but being a nanny is your livelihood and you were not sure if there was even an actual job without a start date. Personally, I would not have said anything to them, gotten a new job and then let them know.

try emailing care.com. No idea if it will help at all. I hate that care doesn't allow you to rate families the way sittercity does.

I recently backed out of a job offer due to the family not giving me a definite start date. I was due to start with them at the end of the summer, but after asking for an exact start date several times over a four week period, I decided they were not respecting me and very politely told them I could no longer work for them. They still had around 6 weeks to find someone to replace me. Their reasoning in not telling me an exact start date was that they were having a family member currently caring for the baby temporarily and they were not sure when the family member would be moving on.

After I let them know I would no longer be working for them they left a very nasty 1 star review on care.com. I have five other very nice 5 star reviews, but I know many families will not even consider a nanny if they have a bad review on their page. I feel this is very unfair. Have any nannies had any luck in getting bad reviews removed?