Babysitter question

Re: Babysitter question

• notkateanymore member

  September 2014

  It depends on how long it usually takes them. My sitters always get back to me within an hour or two, so if I don't hear from them, I move on to the next person. If they come back and say yes and I haven't heard from the next person, I say yes. If I have, I just tell them I asked a couple of people at the same time and already found a sitter.

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• littlemermaid member

  September 2014

  24 hours is more than long enough, especially when you know their phones are glued to their palms. They are probably waiting to see if better plans come along before responding to you. I'd keep looking and then if they do respond to you after you've found someone just let them know that since you hadn't heard from them you figured they weren't available.

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• LoveBeingMama member

  September 2014

  If I texted a high schooler on a weekday morning, I'd give them until the evening so they could respond after school/activities. Anyone else, I'd give about 5 hours and move on, assuming I had equally qualified/well-liked backups. Honestly in getting babysitting jobs, it's kind of, "You snooze, you lose."

  

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• bumpuser924057 member

  September 2014

  I only really have one babysitter on call, but I don't think she's ever taken more than an hour to respond to me. If I didn't hear from her by the end of that day, I would for sure ask someone else (and possibly text again, just in case it didn't go through the first time).

  
  

  
  

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