Neighbour isn't a key worker

[TrulyOutrageousJem]

Since working from home I have moved my desk into the bay window. It's nice to see cars and occasionally people and to not be staring at a blank wall. I'm new to the street and only moved in two months ago so I'm not on chatting terms with anybody yet just a polite hello.

As I'm in the window I have noticed that my neighbour facing gets up each day, takes her small baby (younger than one) to the nursery and her kids to school then comes back home. She isn't working outside of the home as far as I can see and both her and her partner are there all day. She drops the smallest off at 8am and picks up at 5:30pm Monday - Friday so not even a reduced time. I like to keep to myself but it's driving me insane that she is playing the system while I have my small children, yes driving me insane, while trying to work and homeschool but that is just the way it is.

Today it looks like they are doing a spot of DIY because they are childless for the day/week?!?!!!

I desperately want to say something.

Mind your own - you admit you don’t actually know that your neighbour is not a key worker. Your thread says a lot about you.

I am a key worker, wfh.

I am not sending my kids to school. But colleagues who have to undertake confidential call are having to.

Why are you jumping the conclusion she is playing the system, rather than being glad you dont have to send you kids out everyday. Surely you would assume, she is having to do this. Rather than assume she is taking the piss?

For all you know they are both key workers working from home. My DH is.

One of my neighbours is a GP, she is having to do video appointments, her five year old is going to school as you really can’t carry out a consultation with a five year old around.

I am a key worker who works from home...we do exist

True! Why can’t people just let others be?! Another tattle take, so sick of them, and I haven’t been out of the house in 3 weeks.

Tattle tale

I am a key worker and working from home. My kids are with me but to be honest with a toddler it’s really difficult. Every phone call is interrupted and conference calls are a nightmare. If my kids were any younger than they are then I wouldn’t be able to get a thing done. I wouldn’t be so quick to assume they don’t need childcare.

Maybe the children have additional needs, are vulnerable?
Am pretty sure the school/nursery wouldn't be accepting the DC for no proper reason.
Maybe she works nights and will be out tonight doing another 12hr shift?

You've become a curtain twitcher OP. Stop it.

FFS stop snooping and bitching.

It’s not only key worker children who continue to go to school, it’s also vulnerable children,which covers a wide range of circumstances, some of which people may not have ever considered.

Are your really basing your belief that they’re not key workers on the fact that they are at home?!

That's not true Disinfectant my son has severe autism and learning disabilities goes to a special school with a full EHCP his school has closed just like every other school ,they are only offering childcare to children whose parents are also key workers ,no idea when the school.will be open again

She could be a social worker - they work remotely now most of them - or an analyst who models for the NHS, who knows? It's none of your business why she drops her kids off and then comes back home.

Oops, by the time I posted, my point had already been made several times 🙂

You really don't have enough information to sit in judgment.

Key worker working from home? Vulnerable child with a care plan. You don't know what goes off behind closed doors

Without all the facts, it is unreasonable to have a strong opinion.

As you dont know them or their circumstances then you are in no position to judge, you can't just send your kids to school and nursery at the moment, just because you want to, there'll be a reason and its nothing to do with you.

You have no idea of her job or family circumstance.
Don't be so bloody nosy. Lockdown is hard for everyone, try not letting your frustration out as rage.

I’m a key worker and have been working from home the last couple of days. DS has been in nursery both days.

My job is unpredictable and we never know what jobs can come in on a day to day basis. So yeah, I have to send him in even though I’m at home as I could be called in at any minute.

There are key worker jobs that can be done from home that would be impossible to do with a pre school aged child around. The nursery obviously thinks it is appropriate for the child to have a place, it's not really any of your concern.

Bankers in certain front office fields (not just branch staff) like fraud and financial crime are also considered key workers. As are IT and telecoms staff.

You have no idea what she does. She could be in food supply chain - most office based roles (buying, ordering etc) now working from home and under huge pressure to keep stores stocked. She could be NHS. There are lots of key workers who can work from home but who can't do childcare at the same time because they're under more pressure right now than at any point in their career.

Op why did you name change for this?

Or are you just being goady.

In the off chance, you are genuinely bothered by this....I suggest moving your desk where you cant see people.