Anyone feel like a host tried to guilt trip them about something that isn’t there issue?
Arrived on time, host went to pack and only came down for Uber.
I had questions, asked if they preferred I text them? Nope, let’s do it now they said. Needed to know where items were located, etc. food portions.
When the Uber pulled away they came back to the house complaining that it would be $30 fee, plus an extra $40 for the new one, and they were going to be late now.
Not my business and felt like they were looking to blame anyone but themself, as I know Uber has a strict 5 min wait and have never missed my rides.
Not a great start. Any thoughts? Thanks
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Are these the same people with the cleaning staff situation?
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Looks like it. A flurry of posts
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Is this the same sit with the dog pooping everywhere?
Are you having problems with a bunch of sits? Looking at your history of creating topics seems to reflect that. If that’s the case, you might need to better screen hosts and sits to begin with.
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Getting ready to leave can be stressful and sometimes people act out. But (as pointed out in an earlier reply) you seem to be hitting a lot of issues with hosts so it begs the question of your expectations
@Maggie8K no there were 2 sits that had multiple issues. I think you misread the posts freqency
I tend to be good at screening and declining.
The problem sits have occurred when hosts appear to have addiction or abuse tendencies which aren’t always clear until on site
@Oztravels My expectation is for them to follow policies.
Are you suggesting more than that?
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You might want to keep the problems from the two sits together in such cases, because when people on the forum see a flurry of separate problems, it can be hard to actually help you, if you’re looking for suggestions. That’s because context matters. Like when you now say your hosts might be addicts, that might be a root cause for various issues and the (lack of) communications involved.
Tangentially, a few weeks ago, I interviewed a job candidate for another team at work. It turned out that person had some kind of addiction issue, which we used various contextual info to piece together. Of course, we don’t know for sure, but we observed enough that we decided to not go further with them.
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Interesting I thought all topics were supposed to be on separate threads, no?
No. The ones that are merged that way tend to be general topics that don’t require a bunch of context, like a troubled sit does.
You won’t for instance see the moderators dismantling a host’s or sitter’s bad-sit post into parts and spreading them out across multiple topics. That’s because missing context would make suggestions less relevant (or odd).
For example, if a sitter says they have problems A, B and C with a sit or host, it would make no sense to have separate conversations with the host about A, then B and then C (would be very odd). You’d tend to have holistic communications to address all the issues.
Generally, moderation of forums tends to be practical, not hard and fast (or rigid), because the latter approach would create more trouble than help.
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do you know what the paperclip button is for? @Maggie8K
Not sure which you mean, but I think you’re referring to the one that lets you copy the link/URL to the thread. That one is an image of two links, not a paperclip.
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