The Flaker or The Faker?

So this week is my kids first official week out of school and my worker girl who helps me with my calls and STUFF...is vacationing in Mexico, prolly drinking fruity drinks, basking in the sun! Meanwhile, I am getting by just fine, until today! One of my other employees decides to not show up for work! Are you kidding me??? NO! Little background here...her van that she normally uses was in the shop yesterday getting some work done, so I specifically told her that if for some reason the van is not done by the end of the day I would let her know and just have her go along with one of the other girls to get some extra training in. Well, the van ended up being ready, so I didn't have to reschedule any of her appts. Thank God! Her schedule was still posted, no changes, totally accessible for her to see. Here is where the drama begins. Her 1st appt is scheduled for 10am she usually gets to my house 1/2 hr. early to get the van, it's 9:45 am and she isn't here. So I text her wondering where she is and she responds back via text, "R u serious? I'm not at home ;( i'm in Torrance taking care of my nephew. U didn't call me or text me yesterday so I thought I wasn't working".  (BLAH, BLAH, BLAH) Needless to say I was infuriated. We went back and forth  texting and finally I had to call her because she was actually trying to tell me that it was my fault. Exsqueeze me? No, I was very clear that even if you didn't get your stupid van back that you would be riding along with 1 of the other girls. So if you hadn't heard from me and were not sure what was going on wouldn't you 1) call me to find out or 2) check your schedule to see if you still had appts....that's what a responsible person would have done...right? So to make a long story short, here's the jist of it. I basically told her that she needs to come in and she basically told me, "I'm sorry I can't, there is no one to watch my nephew". I said, "why don't you have your boyfriend (her UNEMPLOYED boyfriend) watch him". "Oh he's not here.", again...BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, and then she texted me sorry for the miscommunication. Miscommunication??? There was NO communication, you failed to communicate (which is why you were a NO SHOW to work) Soooooo, you wanna know what I did, after rescheduling all her appts.? I hired someone else, for a part-time position!!!! That's right! I have put up with flakers and fakers and I'm not gonna chance it no more. Always good to have a back-up plan and I just got me one.(side note: we interviewed this person over the weekend and really liked her. We just wanted to take sometime to think about it. And after today's incident it was obvious to me and my hubby that we need a back-up.) Hopefully, she will learn from her stupidity and get her act together...only time will tell! But, I won't put up with too much more. There have been a few other incidents with her not coming in for one reson or another and I just don't have the time or the patience to deal with the nonsense! Ok, I'm done venting...thanx for listening or I guess I should say reading ;)