Skype tuition AIBU

[CatWranglersAnonymous]

I tutor a GCSE student over Skype on Sunday at 10 every 2 weeks.
The student knows it's every two weeks, as does their parent.

(I keep in contact with the parent in case they need to cancel/rearrange the sessions, which they have done in the past, but never at the last minute).

This morning, I logged into Skype just before 10, and saw the student was offline.

I waited until around ten past to check whether they would come online, but they're not online yet (as of 10:19).

I texted the student's parent at ten past to let them know of the situation, and haven't had a reply yet.

If they come back to me and say they'd like to rearrange for later today, that would disrupt my schedule. But I do see that it may also be a misunderstanding on their part.

From now on, I'll text the parent the day before to confirm the lesson, but it just frustrates me a bit that they haven't kept to their commitments. I have regular commitments that I have to attend weekly or every 2 weeks, and I would be letting people down if I didn't attend.

WWYD?

& I still don't understand who you didn't Google the route timing BEFORE taking in the original face to face job?

Calm down TinselTwins - lay off the OP a bit, eh? You sound a tad over invested

The OP didn't cancel the agreed time, by the looks of it - they just asked the client if the lesson could be moved to a different time on the same day, didn't they? How is asking if a lesson can be rearranged the same as cancelling?

The OP hasn't been on for a bit - I don't think they said whether they did Google the route in advance or not, unless I'm missing something.

Range it would be the same as cancelling for us - if it was a morning skype and moved to afternoon at short notice we would already have had plans for example.

I think the OP can just learn from this and move on. No point wasting time overanalysing.