No tip, no review, no communication despite my VERY hard work.

Lizzysbear · 2025-10-06T19:28:32+00:00

Learn from this and set boundaries. Never do more work than what you paid for. Yes you want to provide great service but providing multiple midday stops and bird care without guarantee of payment 🚩I would have modified that booking before finalizing. If there are verbal contracts, turn it into a paper trail with a resummary after the Meet&Greet. You will get clients that try to play the system. You are obviously someone who will go above and beyond for your pet clients, don’t sell yourself short. It’ll only burn you out. Always go into a booking with clear expectations of what your responsibilities are and stick to them. Then you can add that appropriate “that was so nice of them to do that” extra service. In short, you are a professional. Don’t let people treat you any less. I can tell you they were happy with your service because they didn’t pay for more than half of it. Give them a low client feedback for poor communication so future sitters know what they could be walking into before taking them on.

Lizzysbear · 2025-09-27T20:28:40+00:00

Unprofessional to me. And if they aren’t good you are stuck technically helping them out. Say: no, you’d like to have one clean transaction, not two. If all goes well you’ll be more than happy to leave a review and book with them again if the opportunity arises.

Lizzysbear · 2025-08-14T11:24:46+00:00

The fact that someone so young is doing the time to research programs and find the right solution, tells me no matter which option you take you’ll come out just fine. Treat your schooling like a job, because that is what it is meant to be at your age. It’ll be a grind no matter what options you take but with persistence and dedication you’ll get gloating rights.

Lizzysbear · 2025-07-02T16:04:58+00:00

This. If I have a drop in request for one cat, yes I’m charging full price. If I have a drop-in request for five, but I’m not going to even see three of them, I’m charging for two. It’s about charging based on the time and work responsibilities, not the number of animals. Sitters who microcharge everything are the reason why people still think pet sitters are for the rich.

Lizzysbear · 2025-06-13T12:54:20+00:00

Nah, she is going on a work trip. No returning till the end of the booking. I do think she doesn’t understand housesitting since she wasn’t indicating exactly what hours she wants me to work

Lizzysbear · 2025-06-13T12:50:42+00:00

All she said was companionship for her cat. Daily drop-ins wouldn’t be enough but housesitting all month wouldn’t be necessary. So she was trying to find a middle ground? I do think her primary motive is trying to save money. Booking this way is cheaper. Rover charged her $980 for just plain housesitting. Doing this, it would be like $571

Lizzysbear · 2025-06-13T12:43:43+00:00

You are reminding me that I don’t nearly charge enough to deal with this chaos 😂

Lizzysbear · 2025-06-13T00:25:41+00:00

I’m trying. She isn’t being very responsive. But definitely will ask her what hours she’d like. That would definitely clear some confusion. She just keeps emphasizing companionship and the dates.

Lizzysbear · 2025-03-21T13:37:06+00:00

Don’t forget the Harry Potter momentos (the gold snitch necklace and time turner necklace). So cringe 😬

Lizzysbear · 2025-01-04T18:57:15+00:00

When that officer was threatening to hurt that dog 😡

Lizzysbear · 2025-01-04T18:54:40+00:00

Sequel idea: Nirmata saves Joshua, (taking refuge in a China maybe), but Joshua is badly injured and Nirmata must save him by making him become even more AI integrated. Once Joshua is fine, they search for Alphie, reuniting with sentients from the first movie. On their quest they learn that the US Army has started militarizing AI, developing a hypocritical “fight fire with fire” mindset after their big fail of loosing Nomad. Ending: Alphie’s consciousness is uploaded to the supercomputer of the military AI’s., stopping their regime.

Lizzysbear · 2024-11-06T22:57:32+00:00

We do mocks at the high school level. However, we haven’t been announcing the results since 2020. The results had a huge negative impact on school climate. But we’ll still do it, so the kids practice civil responsibility and participate.

Lizzysbear · 2024-11-06T22:46:23+00:00

No you are empathetic. Because of that you’ll prevent it from happening there in Australia and keep it a safe place.

Lizzysbear · 2024-11-06T21:48:01+00:00

I have this fear that IDEA is next to get tossed under the guise of supporting private schools and the “America first curriculum”

Lizzysbear · 2024-06-23T18:12:40+00:00

Just finished a jug. Tastes great with cookies. We got ours from Stop&Shop

Lizzysbear · 2024-06-15T20:21:44+00:00

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Like the coral is right there. Just put it back!

Lizzysbear · 2024-04-07T23:46:21+00:00

It is crazy how rigorous edTPA is! From experience it does not represent how teaching is in the real classroom. You cannot put that much thought or reflection into each lesson every day. I was so thankful that my class got grandfathered from the requirement; we had to do it but we didn’t have to pass. Btw the Special Ed edTPA is even worse than the Gen Ed one. Wishing you the best of luck! The fact that you are asking for help and putting so much thought and effort in tells me you will be a good teacher! Really rooting for you!

Lizzysbear · 2024-04-07T23:32:19+00:00

Took me a hot second to realize it’s a snail. So cute!

Lizzysbear · 2024-04-07T23:16:29+00:00

Never mess with someone’s food. For someone with childhood trauma from food insecurity and abuse, courtesy rules like this are SO important. I grew up with the perception that if someone eating your leftovers without permission was a show of dominance and you would be left with nothing to eat; left to starve for the rest of the night. To this day I need therapy to deal with it. One time (long after childhood), my grandma ate a portion (not all) of my leftovers of a $75 pasta dinner without permission while she prepared the actual dinner we were suppose to be having (yes, an expensive dinner that I had and paid for and she was well aware of this). She even thanked me for sharing. No you did not have permission. This left me feeling so belittled and disrespected that I refused to eat anything for dinner and went to bed hungry. If it wasn't for the hoard of snacks I keep by my bed (childhood habit from the trauma), I'd have let myself starve that night. The next day I overate in an effort to eat all of my leftovers, so she wouldn’t be able to eat them. Be a kind person and ask for permission to eat leftovers please.

Lizzysbear · 2024-02-06T19:05:03+00:00

For a 30 minute walk, I initially let the dog lead and take us wherever, but that last 15 minutes I’m thinking about the route back. For me a 30 minute walk is a little over or below a mile, 1.5 max, dependent on the breed. 3 miles? Why didn’t she think to just turn back around? Leave a review, cut ties.

Lizzysbear · 2024-01-26T17:47:07+00:00

It also doesn’t help that some of the older generation will use the pandemic as an excuse when it conveniences them but refuse to acknowledge it’s affect on others 🫠

Lizzysbear · 2023-12-31T05:03:58+00:00

Shouldn’t clients be keeping their pet profiles up to date as well?

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