What Would You Do?

[TheGoodLife]

An update:

The day after I posted this, I had to ask DCM for my pay, so I pm'd her through Facebook. This is our standard method of communication as she never gave me her phone number. :confused: Anyway, she PM'd me back and said that she secured two immediate openings at a day care facility that would be "more flexible". Grr... And she said she'd be by sometime THIS week to pick up her DD's belongings and that care was ending asap. No mention of 2 week's written notice or anything, like my contract requires, but instant. Honestly, I couldn't be bothered to deal anymore, so I happily said,

"Great! I am so glad that you were able to get your kids in on such short notice, as I know the wait times for the day care centres here are well over a year. You are very lucky. Anyway, it's for the best as I was going to talk to you next week as I have accepted a position which will require me to close the daycare. Best wishes!"

So, not even 2 days after that, my neighbour in the earlier story talked to me. Asked me what happened. I explained everything to her.

Turns out DCM was COMPLETELY lying to me about the day care centre. She was attempting a scare tactic apparently, to get me to take her baby son. When it backfired, she freaked out apparently. She keeps her husband in the dark 100% about child care, so when he caught her crying about it, she said *I* closed the day care IMMEDIATELY. So now I guess he's mad at me. Good lord, teh dramaz, haha.

WOW! First, I thought, then I finished reading and I :: for her trying to scare you into doing more for her!!!

[TheGoodLife]

An update:

The day after I posted this, I had to ask DCM for my pay, so I pm'd her through Facebook. This is our standard method of communication as she never gave me her phone number. :confused:

And I NEVER would've trusted a parent that didn't give phone numbers Crazy!!! (her, not you! )

[littlemissmuffet]

I have one DCG who comes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Those are her contracted days.

Her mom picked her up on Tuesday and said that she would be out on Thursday, they were going away, and if I could use a vacation day that would be great. My policy on vacation time is 2 week's notice but I am actually pretty lax on that since my one problem parent left. Anyway, that doesn't bother me.

8pm Wednesday night I got a PM on Facebook from the DCM asking if there was still a space for her daughter on Thursday, that they weren't going away after all. Honestly, she was my only DCK originally scheduled for Thursday. She's always the only kid to come on Thursdays. So since she cancelled, my husband put in for time off to stay home with us and do family stuff.

I told her no, we had made family plans.

This morning at 8am I got another PM from her, asking if I was taking any kids today and if her daughter could come. The only other child I had scheduled for today cancelled due to illness so I was again without children. I was completely willing to take her until the DCM said, "Oh, I have barely been getting any sleep, with a teething baby at home and no nanny anymore!" (She had a sitter come into the home for the baby while I kept the older child...mom works from home). I have been having a completely miserable time with my own son and have been up with him at 4:30 every morning for the past week...and has never slept the night. I have never really complained about it (not to the day care parents, anyway!), but that comment really pissed me off. Knowing she wasn't scheduled to come that day I used that to my advantage and said that no, I wasn't taking kids today.

What would you have done? Since their nanny quit I am getting the feeling that she is trying to use me as an on-call sitter and I am really getting annoyed by it.

I wouldn't have taken the child either of the days either.

I don't offer part-time or drop in fees, only full-time - and even then, when a parent pays for a full-time space and they tell me a child will be absent on any given day, the child isn't allowed to come if plans change for whatever reason.

[MaritimeMummy]

ANOTHER UPDATE! bahahahah!

So remember how she said she had a day care centre all lined up and then didn't because she was trying to call my bluff? My neighbour told me that she called around everywhere multiple times and they gave her an opening for her older child, the one I had, but that her baby needed to wait until he was 18 months before a spot would open. She started taking her daughter there...as soon as she did, her daughter came home sick and got the whole family sick, and they all have been sick every day since then.

I was leaving the doctor the other day and she was just pulling in with her daughter and baby.

The next day I heard from my neighbour that, because they have been sick for so long and not getting better, the DCM pulled her daughter from THAT day care as well, and now they have no care at all again.

Just last night I checked my facebook messages and LO! There was one there from her, asking if I could take DCG back until I end my day care next month.

BAHAHAHAH no.

[Blackcat31]

BAHAHAHAH no.

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Of course, you could always say yes but charge double the rate.

[littlemissmuffet]

So remember how she said she had a day care centre all lined up and then didn't because she was trying to call my bluff? My neighbour told me that she called around everywhere multiple times and they gave her an opening for her older child, the one I had, but that her baby needed to wait until he was 18 months before a spot would open. She started taking her daughter there...as soon as she did, her daughter came home sick and got the whole family sick, and they all have been sick every day since then.

I was leaving the doctor the other day and she was just pulling in with her daughter and baby.

The next day I heard from my neighbour that, because they have been sick for so long and not getting better, the DCM pulled her daughter from THAT day care as well, and now they have no care at all again.

Just last night I checked my facebook messages and LO! There was one there from her, asking if I could take DCG back until I end my day care next month.

BAHAHAHAH no.

Karma