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I had a friend use my child care services.
She was always the one late, always the one who had issues paying and thought she could walk all over me. We'd been friends for several years and I started as drop in care for her, but once she got divorced, she needed me full summers/holidays/drop in, and suddenly she couldn't ever pay me. Yet she could pay for her boyfriends' gifts, fast food, and other items. I even allowed her offer of housecleaning in exchange for a lower rate. When I realized she'd never ever follow through on her end, I told her I'd have to raise the rates. She whined like a baby. It was very annoying and disrespectful. I kept her kid for years and finally, when she told me one week she just couldn't see paying me because now her daughter was "older" (she turned 10), I termed and told her that was not a reason not to pay someoen doing all the activities I did, keeping her safe, fed etc. So after I left her, she sent her daughter away to live with dad and hasn't seen or really even TALKED to her, since. This was in 2012.
Very very sad, but honestly, I guess that's the kind of mom she is and the kid is better with dad.
NEVER again would I EVER work with a "friend". BTW, this "friend" has had no use for me since other than, to ask me medical questions (I'm an MA/CNA and nursing student) or to ask for things. Last week she called and I answered by mistake, and she actually didn't want anything, but I didn't even really have much to say to her. I lost all respect for her with the way she not only treated me, but how she treated the daughter. Oh, and the new boyfriend, she pays for EVERYTHING. SMH
She was always the one late, always the one who had issues paying and thought she could walk all over me. We'd been friends for several years and I started as drop in care for her, but once she got divorced, she needed me full summers/holidays/drop in, and suddenly she couldn't ever pay me. Yet she could pay for her boyfriends' gifts, fast food, and other items. I even allowed her offer of housecleaning in exchange for a lower rate. When I realized she'd never ever follow through on her end, I told her I'd have to raise the rates. She whined like a baby. It was very annoying and disrespectful. I kept her kid for years and finally, when she told me one week she just couldn't see paying me because now her daughter was "older" (she turned 10), I termed and told her that was not a reason not to pay someoen doing all the activities I did, keeping her safe, fed etc. So after I left her, she sent her daughter away to live with dad and hasn't seen or really even TALKED to her, since. This was in 2012.
Very very sad, but honestly, I guess that's the kind of mom she is and the kid is better with dad. NEVER again would I EVER work with a "friend". BTW, this "friend" has had no use for me since other than, to ask me medical questions (I'm an MA/CNA and nursing student) or to ask for things. Last week she called and I answered by mistake, and she actually didn't want anything, but I didn't even really have much to say to her. I lost all respect for her with the way she not only treated me, but how she treated the daughter. Oh, and the new boyfriend, she pays for EVERYTHING. SMH
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