Originally Posted by EchoMom:
I also feel like you're asking for trouble by being such a stickler. I understand where the emotion comes from, but you need to remain professional and not just try to stick it to her. It sounds like the mom is making a good effort to follow your policy and not trying to just ditch out on payment.
To me, I would count text as written, to me in this day an age, written doesn't mean hand to paper, it just means documented. I would think email or text would be just fine IMO.
And I understand not wanting to bring it up, but then it feels like you're just setting her up, sort of. She's probably uncomfortable too and it's better for you to bring it up and show their are no hard feelings.
I agree with this.
If your contract says "written", then techically, text IS written. Maybe not the way you thought of it, though. I don't think I'd expect a texted termination myself.
