carlys
09-09-2012, 09:38 PM
Hiya please help I'm a bit of a difficult situation and not sure how to handle it!
I had a parent who was strugglig to find childcare, she needed weekends and she doesn't drive therefore needed picking up from home. She came here and signed a contract to start this weekend.
She has tax credits so took my reg number an he was supposed to pay me Friday before I had her lo at the weekend. Sat morning at 1am she text me sayin the father of her lo hadn't brought him back ad was keeping him until Sunday, she said she was out of her mid with worry and she was so upset ad embarrassed he had done tht to her. I was a bit unsure tbh but I was very sympathetic and told her not to worry. She said she would pay me in full (very nice of her but it is part of our contract that she would have to pay me anyway and it was already a day late).
I waited until sat evening and then sent her a polite text and told her I had checked my Internet banking an nothing had go e in, I also reminded her she was due to pay me on the Friday before as per contract. No reply
As I was eagerly waiting her reply I was having a catch up on Facebook, I went to say happy bday to somebody and saw this girls profile on my friends as she ha also said happy bday!!i went on to see I it was the same person or not and it was. I could see her wall posts because we had a mutual friend in common. I had a quick nose to see if I could find out more about what had happened. (I assumed a drama like that would appear on Facebook ;)) one of her statuses said she was away with her bf until today (therefore not working!) and anotherone saying she's going to miss her lo going to his dads for a week (posted last Sunday) therefore wouldn't be due back until today
So she obviously never needed me to have her lo this weekend and instead of just asking me to change the start date, she lied to me (quite an emotional lie too!)
I don't know where I stand now, I don't know whether she's going to just mess me aroun or whether shes going to get back in contact at all. I charge £10/day for late fees tok which might be putti her off contacti me too. I'm also worried that she's claimin tax credits wih my number and pocketing them herself :(
What do you think I should do? Part of me thinks leave it until Friday, if she doesn't pay then I don't look after her lo, simple as. Also if she doesn't pay next week at least I get to talk to her face to face when picking her son up
Or the other part of me want to text her again and ask if she still wants the place an if she does I need to receive this weeks payments now and paymet for nexts on Friday.if she doesn't then just let me know and I will let tax credits know.
Help
I had a parent who was strugglig to find childcare, she needed weekends and she doesn't drive therefore needed picking up from home. She came here and signed a contract to start this weekend.
She has tax credits so took my reg number an he was supposed to pay me Friday before I had her lo at the weekend. Sat morning at 1am she text me sayin the father of her lo hadn't brought him back ad was keeping him until Sunday, she said she was out of her mid with worry and she was so upset ad embarrassed he had done tht to her. I was a bit unsure tbh but I was very sympathetic and told her not to worry. She said she would pay me in full (very nice of her but it is part of our contract that she would have to pay me anyway and it was already a day late).
I waited until sat evening and then sent her a polite text and told her I had checked my Internet banking an nothing had go e in, I also reminded her she was due to pay me on the Friday before as per contract. No reply
As I was eagerly waiting her reply I was having a catch up on Facebook, I went to say happy bday to somebody and saw this girls profile on my friends as she ha also said happy bday!!i went on to see I it was the same person or not and it was. I could see her wall posts because we had a mutual friend in common. I had a quick nose to see if I could find out more about what had happened. (I assumed a drama like that would appear on Facebook ;)) one of her statuses said she was away with her bf until today (therefore not working!) and anotherone saying she's going to miss her lo going to his dads for a week (posted last Sunday) therefore wouldn't be due back until today
So she obviously never needed me to have her lo this weekend and instead of just asking me to change the start date, she lied to me (quite an emotional lie too!)
I don't know where I stand now, I don't know whether she's going to just mess me aroun or whether shes going to get back in contact at all. I charge £10/day for late fees tok which might be putti her off contacti me too. I'm also worried that she's claimin tax credits wih my number and pocketing them herself :(
What do you think I should do? Part of me thinks leave it until Friday, if she doesn't pay then I don't look after her lo, simple as. Also if she doesn't pay next week at least I get to talk to her face to face when picking her son up
Or the other part of me want to text her again and ask if she still wants the place an if she does I need to receive this weeks payments now and paymet for nexts on Friday.if she doesn't then just let me know and I will let tax credits know.
Help