Hi there
Was wondering if anyone has any responce to adverts online from a person overseas?
We were offered the following hours of work for a 4 year 10 month old girl. (shouldn't she be going to school I thought?)
1- Monday to Wednesday 9:10AM -- 4:10PM.
2- Thursday to Friday 4:10PM to 7:40PM.
3- Saturday 10:00AM to 5:00PM.
now we said we would only be able to do the first one. We recived another email asking more about us."We'll like to know more about you if you don't mind, I mean like the kind of people you've worked with in the past? What is the assurance that you will be able to resume to work on time? Has your appointment been terminated by any of your previous employer? If so give reason for this. Are you single? a single mother ? Married? For how will you be able to work for us? You could all also supply any additional information like location where you grew up. Etc"
We told them about us and gave them our website to browse over. We got another email back saying that they accepted us and would like us to start 15th July. They also said that she loves watching cartoons and video games. Could we buy a ds game and 7 games and let them know how much it came to so they could sort out payment to us.
I sent them an email saying that we were a bit confused. She is of an age where she would have to by law go to school and assumed that this is a temporary solution to your childcare needs until they get her into school? We said we work from our own home and look after other children during the day. We are allowed to look after 6 children at any one time. We have lots of toys, games, books, arts and crafts. All of the children we look after have a choice in what they want to do in these areas. We do put the t.v. on but only for short periods. We go to local parks, playgroups and a place where the children can climb, run, crawl and mix with other children. The DS games won?t be necessary for keeping X entertained. We would make sure by getting to know X what she would like to do with us.
We finished the email by saying. We would like to meet with you for a face to face meeting when you arrive over here. We need to sort out a contract with you if you still want to go with us. We would be working on a 3 month trial to make sure that everyone is happy. After that we are happy to look after X
for as long as everyone is happy.
Spoke to father in law and he thinks they are trying to get money out of us. Why wouldn't they just buy the games online themselves instead of asking us to buy them?
Has anyone else had this experience?