We have been in Portugal for a week and had a lovely time .. I deliberately didn't take my iPhone with me as I wanted peace and quiet to spend with my family, even though its normally attached to me!
However on Thursday I went online to my emails to print out our boarding passes for coming home only to find an email giving notice! Quote parent 'tell u now so you can put up an ad while you are away'!! What now?!!! Out of country with no Internet!! It was sent later the day we left, but she knew we were flying out at 6am as I had emailed to ask how little one was as he wasn't well earlier in day and I told her I had been running around madly packing.!
I am really gutted, he is my fave mindee have had him since 7 months now 2.5 years .. Apparently he is going to a preschool local to them as a place has suddenly come up., here we have a free preschool year the year before they start school so I didn't think he would go Til next year. There has been one or two problems lately with parents not paying on time (wondering now if some of it was them saving a deposit for preschool) and dropping too early and picking to late with no apology which I have pulled them up on so I wonder if they are now finding me inflexible and will be able to drop him in to preschool earlier and pick up later for all in fee?
I don't really understand it I have bent over backwards for this family (I have him five days one week and three the next as they don't want to pay five days and granny has him other days) and I don't charge a retainer and have always managed to fit in ad hoc around him, recently I did ask them to swap the three day week to mon tues wed instead of wed thurs fri as I had option of filling the thurs and Fri which they said was fine granny didn't mind which days. Maybe she does or won't take him now? But then why not come back to me and talk to me about it?? And why can they suddenly afford to pay a nursery more fees than I would charge even for full time???
On top of it all she thinks she can count the week I was away as weeks notice and wants him to finish end may .. I did give them a contract which says four weeks notice but they never returned it and since I was new to it all I never worried (everyone else on contracts now!) and it doesn't say not including hols but will put that in for future, have sent email back saying I expect fees Til June 7th.. Not sure now if it will get nasty
I am so upset this is how they have handled it why not tell me face to face??!! Not to worried about filling space as its busy here but am so attached to him I am really upset
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