Nursery teachers snarky comment

She’s studying. Read the OP

Longing to know what this job is where you can take of endless time for a sniffle and your employer is just fine with it. HMRC customer support or single sign on tester possibly? It models a great work attitude for the children as well.

Am I being thick? I would have assumed that at least some of the staff would work beyond closing time anyway to tidy up, clean etc, unless they do it in the mornings, doing it in the evenings would mean there's cover in case anyone is actually late to collect their child.

I'm picturing the last child having to sit with nothing to do whilst they are hoovered around, not being allowed to get toys out as they would need to be put away, not being allowed to use the bathroom as they would need to clean it again. Not being fed as they can't be bothered to clean up after.

The nursery acted unprofessionally. However you work one evening and ine weekend day and send your 3 year old to nursery for nearly 9 hour days that's shocking..

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I’ve not been nasty.

I don’t think it’s a competition of who is the nastiest

honestly I’m a team leader and wouldn’t let my team make a parent feel that way and I know my manager would be absolutely mortified too. Realistically what’s probably the case is they didn’t previously have children who stayed till that late so they left early and now they can’t do that- that is NOT your problem, and i think it’s terrible that a setting made you feel bad for that!
There really are some lovely nurseries where staff would never dream of making parents feel that way and it makes me sad that some nurseries show lack of comparison for parents. your child should have been sat with a staff member doing an activity, having a story, drawing or whatever they wanted to do, not sat looking out the window. I hope the rest of their nursery journey is more positive. Please don’t feel bad, you’re just trying to do your best xx

It would be terrible if the child became homeless too or didn't have any food to eat because their mum lost their job. Unfortunately sometimes it has to be the lesser of two evils to ensure the bills are paid and your child has the basics because you have no choice.

Society doesn't change overnight and people would absolutely have to make a stand enough to lose their jobs which they aren't going to do because of said bills that need to be paid.

The fact that most nurseries still charge for shorter days around Christmas, and holidays and you still have to pay when they're not in, because of illnesses they've caught from nursery, is a joke in itself, but having the audacity to make you feel bad for being 10 minutes early, when you're paying for their time and the emotional manipulation card of her waiting by the window!?

What the hell, tell them you want thursday and you'll be picking her up at the exact time you need to pick her up within their working hours. It's a business at the end of the day, if they have an issue they need to take it up with their managers about the length of their working day.

I had a nursery nurse who would guilt trip me, because I'd take her in later some mornings if we'd barely slept the night before, when I had a chronic illness and my daughter wasn't sleeping properly. She'd say "aww has mummy been taking you out in the morning again" and just snidey comments when in reality, she wasn't even 1 at the time and I was struggling with parting with her because she was so young.

You're paying for a service and that service runs until half 6. I'd put a complaint in and say if it happens again I'll be moving her. I promise you they won't say a word again, I'd speak to someone in there you really trust, they've broken trust by making you feel like that and you need to speak to someone you feel comfortable with so you can explain how you feel and will feel listened to.

They're out of order, stop doubting yourself you're doing your best studying, being a mum and working! Most of them don't even have kids and don't understand what it's actually like trying to balance everything. Walk in there, be strong, be confident and tell them how it is x

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I imagine someone else was paying your bills then.

Sorry to disappoint but I think I won the prize for the nastiest poster on this thread 😆

No, sorry I don’t think there’s ever an excuse to dose your kid up on medicine in order to send them in. Terrible for the child and unfair on everyone else who will now have the same problem as you. As a society we should oppose that and if everyone did, the culture would soon change. There are certain countries where there is a high societal shame for showing up for school/ work with anything contagious. It’s the opposite in the UK sadly.

I thought it was me she was ignoring 🤣

i am a teacher and if I took time off every time my kids weren’t 100% I would have lost my job . There’s a threshold of absence that you can’t go over without triggering dismissal procedures
sometimes you just dose them up on calpol and send them in , yep you feel shitty but losing your home is shittier

I work in a nursery and i’m actually baffled by this!!! 6:20 is a perfectly reasonable time to collect your child who is booked in till 6:30 and you should absolutely not be made to feel otherwise!!

I personally don’t agree with the hats and coats situation either- that to me is rude. Staff are paid till 6:30 and can get their hats and coats then! I Get that staff want to go home, I really do, i’m the same 😂 but that does not mean that parents should be made to feel any type of negative way for leaving their child in for their booked session. they are offering childcare until 6:30, you’ve come before that time; with time for a hand over enough time for staff to still get out promptly.

I thought you were going to start ignoring me? You can’t help yourself, can you. You also keep going on about that point I made specifically to the poster who said that her children and most children she knows were in childcare 11-12 hours a day every day.

“ tore mothers to shreds for using childcare for a career”- bit dramatic