To be really embarrassed?

[mortifeyed]

I was supposed to meet someone who mentored me in a course for advice on setting up my own business. I paid them for the course but they were offering to meet me in their free time to discuss it, via Zoom. It was supposed to be 7pm tonight for a 20 min chat. I have a young baby (which they are aware of) who has been really unsettled all evening. It totally slipped my mind, I’ve settled her and checked the time and now it’s half seven. I have emailed apologising but I just hope she wasn’t sitting round waiting for ages and feel like I’ve utterly taken the mick. AIBU to ask how to resolve this? I am most embarrassed as it’s not the first time I have been late to a session. As I say I did pay her for the course itself but anything beyond that now is just her goodwill.

You've apologised. It's unfortunate that you were busy with your baby. You'll just have to see what she responds with.

Going forward, set an alarm on your phone for anything similar.

You’ve apologised, and with any luck she’ll give you a second chance. I doubt she’ll have been waiting around aimlessly for ages: she’ll have given you ten or fifteen minutes’ grace whilst busying herself in the background with something, and then moved on. Look, I’ll admit, if somebody who wanted coaching to start their own business couldn’t get the first business basic of appointment management and attending a meeting on time right, didn’t show up for a meeting and turned out not to have set an alarm reminder to show up for that meeting, I would roll my eyes a bit; but I’d still give them one second chance and go from there to let them prove themselves.

Tbh we tried to arrange it a week ago and she herself didn’t respond to me for weeks and apologised for that so hopefully she will understand busy lives. I am just beating myself up over it