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Ok to start, Friday I sent in my final paperwork to obtain my license to open my home daycare. Yesterday I received not 1, not 2, but 3 calls from 3 different sponsors for the food program before 10am and I haven't even gotten my license yet! Well come to find out, I am registered with the state, but my official paper license hasn't arrived. What a pleasant surprise! Wooohoooo! After months and months of preparing, I can finally open! I am nervous as heck!...
Well back to the food program sponsors-I felt like a person walking into some store where the employees receive commission for a sale. I talked to one woman and made an appointment. Then another called and I told her that I had an appointment and she said "well we are local, you could just drive down the street to the office if needed" (the other sponsors' office is like 45 min. away) so I said I would call the other woman back and cancel. So I did that and that woman sounded a little irritated and asked why. I told her there was a local sponsor. She then she says well did I tell you about the benefits of joining under us and proceeds to tell me the benefits and then tells me that once you sign up with one sponsor, others aren't supposed to solicit you and that it doesn't matter if they are local, that I could contact them by phone and don't need to go to an office. So I ended up keeping my appointment with the original sponsor. Then the 3rd woman called....
What is in it for the sponsors? I thought the food program was a federal program and it was to aid in making sure children get balanced meals and snacks. I didn't know that sponsors would be so aggressive in trying to get you to sign up with them.
Well back to the food program sponsors-I felt like a person walking into some store where the employees receive commission for a sale. I talked to one woman and made an appointment. Then another called and I told her that I had an appointment and she said "well we are local, you could just drive down the street to the office if needed" (the other sponsors' office is like 45 min. away) so I said I would call the other woman back and cancel. So I did that and that woman sounded a little irritated and asked why. I told her there was a local sponsor. She then she says well did I tell you about the benefits of joining under us and proceeds to tell me the benefits and then tells me that once you sign up with one sponsor, others aren't supposed to solicit you and that it doesn't matter if they are local, that I could contact them by phone and don't need to go to an office. So I ended up keeping my appointment with the original sponsor. Then the 3rd woman called....
What is in it for the sponsors? I thought the food program was a federal program and it was to aid in making sure children get balanced meals and snacks. I didn't know that sponsors would be so aggressive in trying to get you to sign up with them.
: will wait
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