Am I being an ass?

[Cocoon]

Well done for standing up for yourself! Were you going to give them notice for only for the early mornings or whole together? I believe things happens for a reason. I recently interviewed a family and we agreed on everything i sent them my contract and after 2-3 days I've received an email saying that their plans had chanced therefore, they won't be sending their child but will recommend my day home in the neighbourhood (we live in the same neighbourhood). A bit annoying especially, I've done all the work, waste my time to meet them (twice) etc. but nothing happened. I learned soon that things like this happens. Everybody take care of their interest so we should do too. I know we are not like any other business as our emotions involved when taking care of children. But our business is no different and must not be different then any other business. If I go to a supermarket and tell them how much I love their products and I always shop there do you think they will give me discount or let me get things for free? No. So it is about time we should take care of our own interest and treat this as a business.

Regarding invitation, nope, no way I will be inviting them.

[bright sparks]

[QUOTE=Cocoon;30885] Were you going to give them notice for only for the early mornings or whole together? QUOTE]

I had a program that would have worked for me Mon, Wed and Friday mornings and they drop off at 6:30am on M,T,Th so I was going to ask if she could drop off at 7:15/7:30 on a Monday to accomodate my needs. She is a teacher who car pooled when she originally came to me. She needed the early drop off so she could save substantially on gas money. She is a teacher making a 50-60 minute journey to her school. This is the commute time, even with traffic. She no longer car pools and I have often thought why she needs to be getting to school for 7:20-7:30. There have also been some occasions when she has stood at the door chatting for 10 minutes which was really irritating. I thought that this would have been something she could accomodate as it was just one morning per week, but ultimatly had she not been able to, I probably would have caved and not enrolled in my program.

Funny how she took the decision away from me and now I can look after myself with nothing preventing me. Just the timing is way off.