WORKzilla3

[famtastic]

By request!

I've ploughed through all your threads, and can totally believe everything you've said. I know a mother like this who picks on the weaker ones in the pack. Or one specifically. She literally phoned her and told her she was working so obviously the other mother would have her child. Overnight. So it is so not beyond the realms of cheeky possibility!

Loving your SIL

I'll probably never start a good thread.

Alas, Poor Yorick.

Oh, very good!

Settles in for instalment 4

I'm shocked at the amount of people that get this, but there has been great advice and support on here

Too true. I wish there'd been a Mumsnet to help stiffen my backbone back when I was a young, people-pleasing, unassertive doormat type. I was so scared people wouldn't like me I'd talk myself and them into letting me help before they'd even asked sometimes! These threads should be definitely in classics under a sub-heading: Growing a Pair 101 or WORKzilla Repelling Tactics

I would latch on to her horror of leaving her 14 year old alone and in charge and run with it.

You would absolutely leave her 14 year old sat on the sofa in your house watching his 10 year old brother, while you went out with your children and continued your plans/errands. You feel he is responsible enough and once she leaves her children in your care - it's your rules. So if she doesn't want her kids left unsupervised, don't even think about dropping them at yours in any "emergency".

Your sil is a god

I really don't understand why the woman doesn't just leave the kids at home? Are they very naughty?

Alas, Poor Yorick

And this is worth a classics entry all by itself.

I've triednvery hard to keep up with these threads, but seem to have missed something somewhere - what has WORKzilla said about Fam? Or where is that bit on the thread? Thanks.

I totally believe this. I know 2 entitled mums like this. First one informed me she'd put my name down as emergency contact at her DDs nursery because she 'might not be able to make it if she's WORKing' late and I'd be doing pick-ups if she was held up. This was never discussed with me, I was so shocked I said nothing

2nd entitled mum had a SAHM friend looking after her kids(unpaid) while she WORKed but SAHM decided to go back to work, told entitled mum she could no longer look after her kids and entitled mum shouted down the phone to her that she needed to find her alternative child-care for the days she could no longer do.

Oh god I HOPE she is a MNetter and comes to defend herself! And your SIL is brilliant 😂😂.

Blimey, famtastic, she's not exactly consistent is she?

Your MIL has produced some fine offspring!

Op her behaviour is shocking. Well done for staying strong.

@Thebookswereherfriends from fam's post on WORKzilla 2 at 14.44 today;

She was heard saying that I had insisted on doing her summer childcare for her, that she had a place all sorted and I told her that was silly as I live up the road they may as well come here. She felt cheeky and like it was too much to put on me but I insisted and she didn't want to offend me! So they agreed. Now I've cancelled and I won't txt her back and she's lost her childcare place!hmm

Just caught up with the ENTIRE SAGA!
How the heck do you take a 10 and 13 year old to Disney for 2 weeks in October? Don't they have school? Half term isn't 2 weeks around here.

Ooooh- I was so excited for a minute - my ds also had an induction morning today. I thought I might be at the same school asOp and Workzilla!

I was even thinking about taking tomorrow off WORK just so that I can spend the entire day hanging around the playground putting random mums right about the truth of the matter.

And then I realised that dd's school does break up for the summer until the following week.

I am heartbroken. I may even need to go and lie down and sob! Can anyone look after my kids whilst I do?

Alas Poor Yorick
And for your Sil

I missed Fam's earlier explanation about what was being said in the school playground. OH MY GOD. The woman is demented. She's invented an entire conversation that never happened!! Who the hell would ever agree to having someone else's kids for an entire summer knowing they had already booked childcare???? If I were you Fam, I would be emailing/texting every school parent I knew to set the record straight.

Just wanted to pop in to wish you all the best for the school run tomorrow Fam. Hope that it goes well and is drama free!

Just wanted to pop in to wish you all the best for the school run tomorrow Fam. Hope that it goes well and is drama free!

Yeah me too No way. Fuck that. I want more drama from batshit WORKzilla

Brilliant move by your SIL.

Loving this thread Fam. Reminds me of a school mum when my kids were small. She was notorious for farming her DS out to be looked after and entertained by anyone who'd have him. She rang me one morning in Decenber to say that she was going Christmas shopping to a city about 45 miles away and IF she was late for collection off the school bus would I mind looking after him till she got there.

School bus arrives around 4pm and no sign of mum so I bring him in to play while he waits. I'm expecting that she only needed my help IF she didn't get back in time that he'll be with us for no more than half an hour. Still no sign of her at 6pm so I decide we can't wait any longer for dinner and feed us all. Phone goes at about 6.30pm, they're still in the city and fancy a curry!! Eventually pick him up around 10pm!

He was a lovely boy, good house guest (plenty of practice) but I was careful to not get caught like that again.