2 bloody minutes!! Petty?

[cheekymonk]

Hi Folks,
Am interested to hear from others if their nuursey is the same. i arrived today at 8.58 and was asked to wait until 9.00 as not all staff were in. I was then joined by a further 5 or 6 parents stood there like lemons!!!!
I think this is so petty and am really mad about it! I don't take the piss, If it had been ten to then fair enough but there are so many times I pick ds up early!
I love how the nursery is with my ds but not so happy at communication skills with me!
Any thoughts?
(Also forgot his lunch today so crap start to day all round! [blush}

Thanks all for your answers and perspectives. Am up at the crack of dawn today, bless ds!!

I kept being told I was early taking ds to kindy, so I waited in my car with the radio on until the announcer said it was 8.45 and then we walked around the corner. They still said he was early. One of the grandmas told them to check their watches against the speaking clock (only old ladies can get away with stuff like that).

Anyway miraculously we've not been early since.

The staff probably don't start getting paid till nine so why should they work before then. Have you ever seen what nursery nurses get paid!

Ditto what the other nursery nurses have already said. some parents will always take the wee wee, if the doors opened at 4:00am, someone would be ringing the bell at 3:50. At one nursery I worked in, we opened the doors at 8:00am on the button, but the bell would be ringing from 7:40 onwards. It didn't matter how many times we explained about insurance etc..., the bell just kept on ringing. How many times did we want to rip that bloody thing off the wall?

I think the op's main gripe was not that she wanted 2 minutes of free childcare, she just wanted to be allowed in to take off her dc's coat etc... and settle them, but not actually leave them till the correct time. In theory this this should be a reasonable expectation but unfortunately one or two parents would then run in 2 minutes early, dump their dc and leg it. This then becomes 3 minutes early, then four/five etc...

As usual it is the minority that spoils it for the majority.

Cheekymonk,
I can't see any harm in discussing the issue with the nursery at parents day, although I can predict what the answer is likely to be! but I wouldn't use picking your dc up early as part of your argument because this has no bearing on the opening hours of the nursery.

By lovelylou on Wed 14-Feb-07 13:53:00
The staff probably don't start getting paid till nine so why should they work before then. Have you ever seen what nursery nurses get paid!

I get paid £5.50 an hour and I'm (almost) Level 4 qualified

Nothing really to add to this, it's all pretty much been said, just wanted to point out my measly wage.

Oh and over half the money I do earn goes straight back into the nursery as fees for DD.

I get a genorous six pounds an hour and like lazylou says half of that money goes on childcare although not to the nursery as the fees are too much, on my wages. Cheekymonk is it really so bad that you have to wait two minutes.