well evidently, not only do they take days to get back to you with an application but as soon as you request it you are committing to do it. We had 16" of snow here yesterday with school cancelled today and yesterday and don't get me going on the wind chill and roads. So of course, this acceptance shows up and I emailed back this morning NOT accepting but saying I had an issue (the other link to choose). I explained the situation and said I could do it but not by the deadline and would that be an acceptable solution. I already had firm jobs to do and they are being pushed back because of the weather - and understanding schedulers. I also have this group of people that live with me, called my family and have to take care of things they need to make up as well (scouts, karate, etc), but that argument I knew was going to fall on deaf ears.
I get an email back saying "OK but its only Wednesday". I again explained I have lost two days that I have to make up and now after rethinking it it would be best that I didn't do this at all, still NEVER hitting Accept. And I get threatened with a citation. I don't like threats. I can't understand why I am going to be cited when I never accepted to begin with and the weather situation was out of my control. Things got nastier from there with threats, etc and I said finally "please pay me what is due me in a timely manner. I am deactivating myself". To which I get "you've never done any work for us before". I did a theater the last week in December, thankfully I have the backup paperwork. When I sent this info I was told to stop sending nasty threatening emails.
WTH? All this over a 10 dollar total shop and I have constantly have to hound these people to pay me when I do work for them. Good riddance.