I am a (recently registered) childminder and currently have one mindee, who will only be with me until next friday.
A few weeks ago, I got a call from a parent who wanted me to do school run a couple times a week. Had a nice chat on the phone and arranged a visit, on a saturday because she couldn't make it during the week.
She never turned up! . She didn't phone, nothing, so I wasted my saturday waiting around with bored DS.
Anyway, yesturday, she phoned back and said she didn't need a childminder for some reason at the time but does now, gave a crap excuse about loosing my phone number and the family information service website 'being down', but do I have vancancies?!
I do in fact have loads of vancancies but told her politely that I was full. I felt that she would be unrelaible and had been very rude and unthoughtful.
Did I do the right thing? Or should I have sucked it up and given her a second chance, I could do with the money. I'm concerned I have been a bit petty.