Quote Originally Posted by playfelt View Post
I think it is just assumed that people have answering machines these days or at least people take the risk and call hoping it goes to the machine.

In this case since you said Friday was the deadline so to speak it does make sense that the families made every effort to call back even if it was late or to call first thing this morning if they couldn't get through hoping you would still accept them.

Also people with a baby lose track of "reasonable hour" cause they are up and down all day. I would have been up at both times and probably answered the phone but then my day ends late and starts early due to my own daughter.

It is good to hear that people are again getting interviews. I actually have two this weekend to fill my last space. Not sure on the one today as they seemed ok on the phone but totally surprised the one tomorrow wants to actually interview but going to give them the benefit of the doubt and be firm in what I expect. Thinking she may have found out since our first conversation that what I was saying was the norm not the exception. I have also had two contacts for September and I haven't even placed an ad yet and will have a child leaving for JK.
Here is the thing, both of these families enquired via email, it would have been much more respectful of my family time to email me to follow up if it was early or late in the day. I appreciate what you are saying but I am a respectful person of others time and I just don't see that this is an acceptable reason when there was an alternative way of contacting me without the disruption. Also with regards to the Friday, I said I would be calling at nap time the deadline was for me, not them to call me on Friday. So if they weren't available I understand but don't call me at night time. It's just plain rude, maybe not to others but hence why folks should thing about others when they act, not of themselves. I have children of my own, and didn't lose the ability to be curtious of others when they were babies. Maybe it's simply a fact that some people are just so laid back that they neglect to think that not everybody has the same values as them. Even if in a voicemail it had said"I'm sorry it's early/late to call but I am heading out, or just got in and didn't want to put it off. I hope that I am not disrupting you." That would have shown some courtesy for me by explaining that maybe they had a busy schedule and there was no other time to call but that they were sorry for any inconvenience. Especially as these families new my POLICY for method and hours of enquiry.