Toregone
07-12-2012, 01:06 PM
So if anyone has seen my past few posts they have been about a family looking for care in Sept. I did some drop in care for them this summer but decided it was best not to take them on full time come Sept. I gave the mother 2 months notice to find alternate care and offered to provide drop in until she found someone but she was still quite upset.
Now I find out from other dayhomes in the area that she is bad mouthing me! I am unprofessional and she "wonders about the quality and standard of care" children recieve when at my home etc. I AM SO MAD! She doesn't know however that I know these people and they are letting me know about this. Luckily to the best of my knowledge, she isn't using my name or my business name. Some other providers I talked to when she told me off put 2 and 2 together and called to give me a heads up.
Why do some people have to be petty? My business plan changed and I decided I didn't want to take on as many kids as I had planned. I gave her plently of notice and had not even entered into any sort of formal arrangement with her. No holding fees or contract. Just a loose verbal agreement that we would "see how the summer went and take it from there". In my opinion that's what we did!! I never mentioned her childrens behaviour as a reason (even though it partially was). I took all the blame for the arrangement not working out onto myself. And still she goes to other providers bad mouthing me. UGH!! :cursing:
Now I find out from other dayhomes in the area that she is bad mouthing me! I am unprofessional and she "wonders about the quality and standard of care" children recieve when at my home etc. I AM SO MAD! She doesn't know however that I know these people and they are letting me know about this. Luckily to the best of my knowledge, she isn't using my name or my business name. Some other providers I talked to when she told me off put 2 and 2 together and called to give me a heads up.
Why do some people have to be petty? My business plan changed and I decided I didn't want to take on as many kids as I had planned. I gave her plently of notice and had not even entered into any sort of formal arrangement with her. No holding fees or contract. Just a loose verbal agreement that we would "see how the summer went and take it from there". In my opinion that's what we did!! I never mentioned her childrens behaviour as a reason (even though it partially was). I took all the blame for the arrangement not working out onto myself. And still she goes to other providers bad mouthing me. UGH!! :cursing: