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"Parents need childcare around their schedule not yours!"

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gooseegg · 26/06/2007 08:51

This comment came to me yesterday via a rudely composed email, after an initial telephone enquiry followed up immediately by a professional introductory email including my information booklet as an attachment:

?Your shift pattern doesnt really make any continuity possible or common sense to be honest when parents need child care around their schedule not yours! it seems ridiculous to me?.

My childminding business is open to a six week rota pattern based on 7 days /week.

It?s a pay-as-you-go service and very popular. I have recently taken on an assistant to help meet the extra demand of parents who don?t work weekday office hours and who value not being charged for hours they do not actually use.

DH said I should have told her to f * off.

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merryberry · 26/06/2007 08:59

Be glad you weeded that one out before they wasted any of your time proper. Very rude. Hope you forget it asap.

I was talking at the w/e to some friends who do non-conventional hours and if they aren't working they can't afford to pay for care. If only more people offered what you do.

xoxo · 26/06/2007 08:58

It would be galling I know, but why not go back to this person and ask for clarifiaction? Just because she is rude and insulting (which she clearly is) does not mean that she does not have a point. Maybe she's spotted something in your timetable that you haven't thought of?

I do take a little bit of joy in being exceptionally professional and nice to rude people as I know it will show them up and annoy them.

If it turns out that she is just horrible then at least she can see that you are professional enough to look at every suggestion and comment.

Then you should tell her to feck off. But I suspect that she would be so shamed that she would be falling over herslf to apologise. Hopefully.

Good luck

gess · 26/06/2007 08:53

You should have! You could also have told her that until taking on your assistant you were full so obviously not everyone feels the way she does. People are so rude. Lucky escape perhaps......