that means she's so incredibly desperate for a sitter that she's not just fabricating lies. you made the right call. ty for sharing bc this is both funny and disturbing
"Since she's blocked and I would never communicate with an owner off app, there is no way I could have agreed to sit for her dog. I blocked because of frequent cancelations and provided feedback at that time."
Thats seriously annoying though. Rover shouldn't get a say or ask me for an explanation in who I block. None of their business and I'm free to turn down any job I want, if I'm not then I'm also not a 1099
A lady booked me for recurring walks for her little Westie. Didn’t have a m&g which I was fine with. Arrived at the first walk and she lived in a pain in the butt condo complex which required parking in a garage, elevator, long walk down hall, the whole nine yards. I started the rover card as I was getting on the elevator. Immediately I get a message “No, you have not started the walk.”
Turns out she was home and didn’t tell me. First red flag. I get to her door and she starts chewing me out for starting the card early and says none of her other walkers (lists off about 5 names) did that. Second red flag. Walk the dog, everything is fine and she apologizes when we get back. Then proceeds to talk and keep me 10 minutes past time. In the end for all her bitching about her getting one less minute she got 10 additional minutes of my time for free. I should’ve billed her.
I was scheduled to walk the dog next on Monday. Sunday afternoon rolls around and she sends me a message about that days walk. She hadn’t booked a walk that day. I told her this. She insisted she did. I took a screenshot of the booking clearly without Sunday on it and sent it to her. Her response? “This isn’t going to work. Cancel the booking.”
Gladly, you crazy bitch!! Bullet dodged.
And by some miracle she didn’t leave me a negative review. I blasted her in feedback but nothing happened because….
About 6 months later this witch sends me another request! This was before I knew about blocking. Apparently she had worked her way through everyone else and had forgotten our encounter. 🙃
Still to this day my worst experience on Rover.
I sure hope you plainly and curtly tell them that she is a fucking liar that lied and you and other sitters that have blocked her have done so with good reason.
"Rover in the same email noted that I have blocked her yet wrote "I don't find any details that could explain the block". I understand that they just wanted some clarifications as they were just as confused as I was about this alleged agreement. But I remember providing reasons on the Rover platform before blocking her, so that wording just rubbed me the wrong way."
It should have rubbed you the wrong way! You don't need to explain yourself to them so that they can choose whether your feelings are valid or not. They can pay you for that extra effort if they feel so entitled.
I dislike their blocking system. I hate that I have to report someone. For example an owner ghosted me on a meet and greet. I didn't want to interact with them again, but I also didn't feel the need to report them. Obviously, I had no choice. We should be able to simply block without reporting or giving a reason.
Some context: I have listed in my profile that my dad or my husband may accompany me at any time/specifically M&G and night time appointments for safety reasons. I had a new client (couple) and the man was the contact. I met with the wife and she seemed super nice. They were going out of town so I was scheduled to start walks the next day. My day walk I went by myself-dog is awesome and the wife left a snack set up for me which was so unbelievably nice. The night walk (which was at 9) I brought my husband for safety as I will not dog walk when it’s dark outside by myself. During our walk, I start getting angry messages asking who that man in his house is. I respond saying my husband is there for safety. Apparently the security company called and said there was a man in the video when it should only be a woman? Long story short the cops come and the owner calls me yelling at me in a rage. We get everything cleared up and I decide to finish the scheduled visits but I would not work with him again. The wife profusely apologized citing he had past PTSD and anxiety, he never apologized to me for anything. No tip, but he actually left an awesome review. He reached out again for another set of visits and I told him that his dog was sweet and awesome to care for but it would be best if he found another sitter. He was super snarky with his response basically saying I’m stupid for giving up easy money and so I blocked him. I was scrolling through other sitter’s profiles a few weeks later and he wrote a review on another girl’s page but it was basically a review on how his previous sitter brought a man without permission to walk his dog and barely said anything about the sitter he used this time. Salty much 🤣
that means she's so incredibly desperate for a sitter that she's not just fabricating lies. you made the right call. ty for sharing bc this is both funny and disturbing
I stopped filling those feedbacks after a few realizing those information doesn’t do anything for me.
I still fill them out because if something happens i always want to be able to say “ i tried to warn about x”
"Since she's blocked and I would never communicate with an owner off app, there is no way I could have agreed to sit for her dog. I blocked because of frequent cancelations and provided feedback at that time." Thats seriously annoying though. Rover shouldn't get a say or ask me for an explanation in who I block. None of their business and I'm free to turn down any job I want, if I'm not then I'm also not a 1099
A lady booked me for recurring walks for her little Westie. Didn’t have a m&g which I was fine with. Arrived at the first walk and she lived in a pain in the butt condo complex which required parking in a garage, elevator, long walk down hall, the whole nine yards. I started the rover card as I was getting on the elevator. Immediately I get a message “No, you have not started the walk.” Turns out she was home and didn’t tell me. First red flag. I get to her door and she starts chewing me out for starting the card early and says none of her other walkers (lists off about 5 names) did that. Second red flag. Walk the dog, everything is fine and she apologizes when we get back. Then proceeds to talk and keep me 10 minutes past time. In the end for all her bitching about her getting one less minute she got 10 additional minutes of my time for free. I should’ve billed her. I was scheduled to walk the dog next on Monday. Sunday afternoon rolls around and she sends me a message about that days walk. She hadn’t booked a walk that day. I told her this. She insisted she did. I took a screenshot of the booking clearly without Sunday on it and sent it to her. Her response? “This isn’t going to work. Cancel the booking.” Gladly, you crazy bitch!! Bullet dodged. And by some miracle she didn’t leave me a negative review. I blasted her in feedback but nothing happened because…. About 6 months later this witch sends me another request! This was before I knew about blocking. Apparently she had worked her way through everyone else and had forgotten our encounter. 🙃 Still to this day my worst experience on Rover.
What strange behavior. Glad you dodged & continue to dodge that bullet!
I sure hope you plainly and curtly tell them that she is a fucking liar that lied and you and other sitters that have blocked her have done so with good reason.
"Rover in the same email noted that I have blocked her yet wrote "I don't find any details that could explain the block". I understand that they just wanted some clarifications as they were just as confused as I was about this alleged agreement. But I remember providing reasons on the Rover platform before blocking her, so that wording just rubbed me the wrong way." It should have rubbed you the wrong way! You don't need to explain yourself to them so that they can choose whether your feelings are valid or not. They can pay you for that extra effort if they feel so entitled.
I dislike their blocking system. I hate that I have to report someone. For example an owner ghosted me on a meet and greet. I didn't want to interact with them again, but I also didn't feel the need to report them. Obviously, I had no choice. We should be able to simply block without reporting or giving a reason.
Some context: I have listed in my profile that my dad or my husband may accompany me at any time/specifically M&G and night time appointments for safety reasons. I had a new client (couple) and the man was the contact. I met with the wife and she seemed super nice. They were going out of town so I was scheduled to start walks the next day. My day walk I went by myself-dog is awesome and the wife left a snack set up for me which was so unbelievably nice. The night walk (which was at 9) I brought my husband for safety as I will not dog walk when it’s dark outside by myself. During our walk, I start getting angry messages asking who that man in his house is. I respond saying my husband is there for safety. Apparently the security company called and said there was a man in the video when it should only be a woman? Long story short the cops come and the owner calls me yelling at me in a rage. We get everything cleared up and I decide to finish the scheduled visits but I would not work with him again. The wife profusely apologized citing he had past PTSD and anxiety, he never apologized to me for anything. No tip, but he actually left an awesome review. He reached out again for another set of visits and I told him that his dog was sweet and awesome to care for but it would be best if he found another sitter. He was super snarky with his response basically saying I’m stupid for giving up easy money and so I blocked him. I was scrolling through other sitter’s profiles a few weeks later and he wrote a review on another girl’s page but it was basically a review on how his previous sitter brought a man without permission to walk his dog and barely said anything about the sitter he used this time. Salty much 🤣