to expect the nursery to be honest?

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am furious right now as DH has come home to say that i was told by DS's key worker that the nursery would be closed tomorrow and because DS isn't going on the nursery trip to a local park that we have to make other arrangements.

Firstly i was never told this, at all, i have a near perfect memory for most things, but have an unbeatable memory for anything to do with DS, and i can not recall even a hint of this being mentioned last week.

secondly, they didn't mention on the return slip or info board that they wouldn't be open and that if any child wasn't coming that they would not be able to attend nursery.

so now DH has to have a day off tomorrow unpaid, whereas if we had been told a week or so previous he could of easily taken it off as holiday and would of been paid.

AIBU in thinking they should have someone there to look after children not going on a trip etc
and that they should bloody well not lie about what they have told us etc and that they should either pay for my husbands missed wage that day or give a free day of care to us in exchange.

I can't actually believe they have done this and also lied about telling me about it too.

what can i do?

I do think you weren't told - it's not the sort of thing you forget is it? You might forget to do something about it, but you wouldn't forget it iyswim.

Hope youve calmed down now because youre seriously getting this out of proportion.

One thing I dont understand is why dh comes home, tells you and youre the one who is going to ask for compensation etc, surely eh should have done that at the time?

The point is someone made a mistake that's all. No maliciousness involved. These things happen, Im sure even you make mistakes?

I personally would have checked with the nursery when I decided not to send him or Id have asked another parent or something.

they have not lied to you, its just crossed wires/misinterpretation of spoken word.

YOU made an assumption, so did THEY - so you are both in the wrong

however you could suggest they reword their letter next time to include the phrase "nursery will be closed on that day for those not wishing to attend the trip"

mine are not going on the brownie trip next week - they have paid their subs for the night, there is no extra charge for the trip, should I expect there will be someone there running brownies for those who dont want to do the trip? of course not!

I wonder whether cocobongo is a sockpuppet.

Its different to Brownies though to be fair. Nurserys are there to provide childcare to working parents from 8 in the morning (or thereabouts) to 6pm (or so). If they dont provide that, it means someone can't work, so someone can't get paid. Which is all very well but the very least they could do is not charge you for the day.

If they dont look after your child, they shouldn't charge. Okay, so there's a trip, but if it was to an expensive place, where does that leave people with no cash to spare?

It sounds to me like a breakdown in communcation but I'd be pretty miffed if our nursery, for whatever reason, were not open and able to look after our children if we were paying for the day. Its a bit of a liberty to be honest.

Having said that its nice that there is a trip, I can see why they dont have enough staff to do both, and really they are probably assuming that all children will attend the trip and hence this scenario probably didn't really occur to them which is where the debacle happened...