OMFG. If you work in a daycare, HEAR MY PLEAS.

[cville]

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOUR SERVICES ARE REQUIRED SOLELY BECAUSE PARENTS WORK.

Okay?  You provide valuable educational services.  You are friendly and charming.  You love our kids.  We cannot appreciate you enough.  And WE'D SEND THEM TO A REGULAR PRESCHOOL FOR THREE HOURS A DAY IF WE DIDN'T HAVE MOTHERFUCKING JOBS.

So stop scheduling shit for traditional working hours.  In case you're unsure what constitutes traditional working hours, that's NINE FUCKING AM TO FIVE FUCKING PM MONDAY-FRIDAY, every single fucking week.

I just had to call and be like "hey, remember how we talked about how 9-10 for preK graduation is impossible due to working hours?  So, why DID YOU SCHEDULE THE MOTHER'S DAY BREAKFAST NEXT WEEK FOR 9-10 ON A FUCKING FRIDAY?!?!"

Except without cursing.  I also reminded them it's been 8-9 FOR THE PAST FOUR GODDAMNED YEARS.

They're moving the breakfast to 8.

[thebuddhagouda]

Did a new person take over scheduling, or did the entire staff just collectively lose their minds?

[venice2007]

I will never, ever understand why day care centers do this. When I worked at one years ago, they did this shit all the damn time. Then they'd get mad when some parents couldn't come. Ummm hello idiots they are ya know WORKING!
Gah

Glad they moved it! :-)

[Elsa]

Most of the time our daycare is good about this....muffins with mom and donuts with dad is from 7-830am. Open house is in the evening or on a Saturday.

However, they schedule Valentine's/Halloween/Easter Egg hunt/etc at 4pm during the week. And I work an hour from her daycare. So I have to leave by 3. So usually I skip it....except now she is old enough to realize and she gets really upset when I'm not there

[ginger]

OMG. I don't know how you didn't cuss.

[sandytoes]

I hate this shit. I always have to take time off of work and then see the kids sad faces whose parents couldn't make it. Last week was a poetry reading. Only one kids parent wasn't there (surprisingly). He cried the entire time. I felt so bad for him

[dottyblue]

Nice work.  I can't believe they pulled it again.

Daycare just did this to me. Picnic lunch on a Friday from 11:45-12:45. With only 3 days notice. I work in the same building as daycare, but with 3 days notice I couldn't move my meetings around. So I missed the picnic lunch. 

[cville]

Apr 27, 2015 15:37:13 GMT -5 sandytoes said:

I hate this shit. I always have to take time off of work and then see the kids sad faces whose parents couldn't make it. Last week was a poetry reading. Only one kids parent wasn't there (surprisingly). He cried the entire time. I felt so bad for him

You're making me feel fan fucking tastic about PreK graduation in 3 weeks.  That I won't be attending.

[CajunShrimp]

My son is in nursery school, and they scheduled the Mother's Day thing at 11am. Almost all the kids are there until 2:20. WTF?

[cville]

Apr 27, 2015 15:35:05 GMT -5 ginger said:

OMG. I don't know how you didn't cuss.

I did let out an exasperated "YES, IT WOULD" when she asked "Oh, so from 8-9 would work better for you?"

[lilac05]

I'm glad they changed it, but man, are they out of touch with their customers! That's absolutely ridiculous in any situation, but beyond maddening when you JUST went through this!

[cville]

Apr 27, 2015 15:39:49 GMT -5 lilac05 said:

I'm glad they changed it, but man, are they out of touch with their customers! That's absolutely ridiculous in any situation, but beyond maddening when you JUST went through this!

RIGHT?!

I was like "JUST LAST WEEK, if you'll recall, we discussed this."

[sandytoes]

Apr 27, 2015 15:38:29 GMT -5 cville said:

Apr 27, 2015 15:37:13 GMT -5 sandytoes said:

You're making me feel fan fucking tastic about PreK graduation in 3 weeks.  That I won't be attending.

Omg - I'm so sorry!! Not intentional at all! I skipped that part and went right to your caps part about the breakfast. That sucks. I'm sorry. They can't move it? I imagine you aren't the only person that can't go??

[cville]

Apr 27, 2015 15:41:18 GMT -5 sandytoes said:

Apr 27, 2015 15:38:29 GMT -5 cville said:

You're making me feel fan fucking tastic about PreK graduation in 3 weeks.  That I won't be attending.

Omg - I'm so sorry!! Not intentional at all! I skipped that part and went right to your caps part about the breakfast. That sucks. I'm sorry. They can't move it? I imagine you aren't the only person that can't go??

NO AND NO, OTHERS CAN'T GO TOO.  AND I LIKE YOU OKAY BUT I'M STILL GOING TO SHANK YOU IN AN ALLEY.

[fortnightlily]

Yes! Thankfully mine doesn't require too many events they expect parents to attend, but a couple times a year we have the parent-teacher conferences and the slots they give me are like between 11am and 1pm. Not only do I work, but this is a major metropolitan area. I work 13 miles from daycare, but that's like a 45 minute drive. So no, I cannot even zip over on my lunch hour, thankyouverymuch.

[thebuddhagouda]

Apr 27, 2015 15:42:45 GMT -5 cville said:

Apr 27, 2015 15:41:18 GMT -5 sandytoes said:

Omg - I'm so sorry!! Not intentional at all! I skipped that part and went right to your caps part about the breakfast. That sucks. I'm sorry. They can't move it? I imagine you aren't the only person that can't go??

NO AND NO, OTHERS CAN'T GO TOO.  AND I LIKE YOU OKAY BUT I'M STILL GOING TO SHANK YOU IN AN ALLEY.

Ours still hasn't been scheduled beyond an ambiguous "sometime in May". 

I CAN'T TELL HIS GRANDMOTHER WHO LIVES SIX HOURS AWAY AND STILL WANTS TO BE HERE SOMETIME IN MAY, ASSHOLES!!!!!!!! 

plus, I'm having a baby sometimes in this mix. I'd like to not miss it myself. 

[lilafowler]

Our Mother's Day tea is at 11:15 next Friday. I'm taking a half day-working 2 hours before and 2 hours after I get home. I'm not bragging-just realizing how lucky I am that I have a shitload of PTO to use and the ability to work a flex schedule.
I'm sorry Cville-that's really not fair

[tsk1564]

Yes. Can I also add progress meetings? My child's teacher in her toddler class gave me incredible shade every time I said I couldn't make a meeting that had to be scheduled between 10-2:30.

UM YES. LET ME JUST TAKE THE DAY OFF FOR THAT.

Who are these people who would inflict the insanity that is DC tuition upon themselves but are clearly not working?

[cville]

Apr 27, 2015 15:44:23 GMT -5 thebuddhagouda said:

Apr 27, 2015 15:42:45 GMT -5 cville said:

NO AND NO, OTHERS CAN'T GO TOO.  AND I LIKE YOU OKAY BUT I'M STILL GOING TO SHANK YOU IN AN ALLEY.

Ours still hasn't been scheduled beyond an ambiguous "sometime in May". 

I CAN'T TELL HIS GRANDMOTHER WHO LIVES SIX HOURS AWAY AND STILL WANTS TO BE HERE SOMETIME IN MAY, ASSHOLES!!!!!!!! 

plus, I'm having a baby sometimes in this mix. I'd like to not miss it myself. 

Assholes!  The lot of them!

[captainobvious]

Oh I would be angry, and I couldn't even make an 8am thing, but it'd be a heck of a lot easier to schedule around.

[cville]

Apr 27, 2015 15:45:34 GMT -5 lilafowler said:

Our Mother's Day tea is at 11:15 next Friday. I'm taking a half day-working 2 hours before and 2 hours after I get home. I'm not bragging-just realizing how lucky I am that I have a shitload of PTO to use and the ability to work a flex schedule.
I'm sorry Cville-that's really not fair

Yes, I was less attuned to this when I could just stay late/work nights/work on the weekend to make up for it.  But I still found it impossible to attend many, many events due to work.  Because you can't reschedule a hearing for mother's day breakfast because they DON'T CARE.

[sandytoes]

Apr 27, 2015 15:42:45 GMT -5 cville said:

Apr 27, 2015 15:41:18 GMT -5 sandytoes said:

Omg - I'm so sorry!! Not intentional at all! I skipped that part and went right to your caps part about the breakfast. That sucks. I'm sorry. They can't move it? I imagine you aren't the only person that can't go??

NO AND NO, OTHERS CAN'T GO TOO.  AND I LIKE YOU OKAY BUT I'M STILL GOING TO SHANK YOU IN AN ALLEY.

 NOW YOU'RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE! (I'll be avoiding alley's for a while  )

[lilafowler]

Apr 27, 2015 15:47:36 GMT -5 cville said:

Apr 27, 2015 15:45:34 GMT -5 lilafowler said:

Our Mother's Day tea is at 11:15 next Friday. I'm taking a half day-working 2 hours before and 2 hours after I get home. I'm not bragging-just realizing how lucky I am that I have a shitload of PTO to use and the ability to work a flex schedule.
I'm sorry Cville-that's really not fair

Yes, I was less attuned to this when I could just stay late/work nights/work on the weekend to make up for it.  But I still found it impossible to attend many, many events due to work.  Because you can't reschedule a hearing for mother's day breakfast because they DON'T CARE.

I'm really sorry. I wasn't trying to be a jerk-just commiserating on the terrible timing of these things!

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Apr 27, 2015 15:37:13 GMT -5 sandytoes said:

I hate this shit. I always have to take time off of work and then see the kids sad faces whose parents couldn't make it. Last week was a poetry reading. Only one kids parent wasn't there (surprisingly). He cried the entire time. I felt so bad for him

What the actual fuck was your purpose in writing this? To make parents feel worse? Fuck you.

[Deleted]

LOL forever to rescheduling court appearances.

[Deleted]

LOL FOR FUCKING EVER AND EVER AND EVER.

[cville]

Apr 27, 2015 15:48:41 GMT -5 lilafowler said:

Apr 27, 2015 15:47:36 GMT -5 cville said:

Yes, I was less attuned to this when I could just stay late/work nights/work on the weekend to make up for it.  But I still found it impossible to attend many, many events due to work.  Because you can't reschedule a hearing for mother's day breakfast because they DON'T CARE.

I'm really sorry. I wasn't trying to be a jerk-just commiserating on the terrible timing of these things!

Oh, no, I was agreeing with you!  

I think a lot of the parents ARE lucky and have PTO or, like I used to, have more schedule flexibility and don't realize.  I've just taken it upon myself to be the voice for the voiceless now, since I'm even MORE attuned to this than I was before.

[sicilygirl]

I want to live in a place where normal people don't go to work until 9 am. Although I know this wasn't the point of the thread. But anyway, where do I need to move to make that happen?

[sandytoes]

Apr 27, 2015 15:50:00 GMT -5 thinkofthesoldiers said:

Apr 27, 2015 15:37:13 GMT -5 sandytoes said:

I hate this shit. I always have to take time off of work and then see the kids sad faces whose parents couldn't make it. Last week was a poetry reading. Only one kids parent wasn't there (surprisingly). He cried the entire time. I felt so bad for him

What the actual fuck was your purpose in writing this? To make parents feel worse? Fuck you.

What? No. I was saying the daycare was being an asshole here for scheduling things during working hours. I can not attend plenty of my kids functions. So I understand cville's plea.   Relax.

[irishbride2]

I am so glad my daycare doesn't do any of these activites. What a pain!