I currently hold the position as a full time Customer Service Manager within a local supermarket and I went for an informal chat with the manager this morning to discuss my options before I did anything formal.
After weighing up the pros and cons of childcare both nurseries and childminders cots etc I decided it would be best to just drop 5.5hrs a week to enable my dp and me to share childcare between us as he works a twilight shift.
Anyway I was informed that department managers are normally full time employees and thats the way the company likes to work it! and that there was currently no other options available to me (as in a similar job with hrs that would fit)
So basicly I have to work full time or not work at all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finding childcare is a nightmare as no nursery or childminder in this area works on a sat and no family are available to take the 2 lo's.
The childminder that I did use with dd1 has now given up.....I have no idea what I am going to do, I earn the higher wage and I'm soooooo stressed.
I either need to find childcare for 2 dd's that will eat in to a large proportion of my wages or go ahead with requesting a drop in hours that then has to be approved by our Divisional Exec, which looks unlikely.
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