Retroactive reimbursement for sick days.

[clep]

Just to clarify - I would never do it without permission - I give them the option of a new cheque for payday or b altered and initial post dated on file ... my point being they would not be able to BANK their credits up cause I cannot budget for that ... specially carrying over from one tax year to another to confusing.

I have never had an issue with this but I personally will not deal with adult I have to coddle - I would likely end up terminating if it was so many things not being followed through on their end!!!

I do find it quite confusing and also because I cannot budget then. I budget quite meticulously.

I tried to change the amount on their cheques a couple of times with their permission, but they didn't have time to initial over several days, so my payment ended up being quite late after they finally got around to it. I have no interest in hounding people day after day to initial the cheque.

After that I decided to remind them via email that I needed new cheques and if they did not get around to it, I still have a cheque to cash. I guess that is my way of putting their responsibility back in their court, and if they don't provide the new cheque they lose the reimbursement. Nothing tends to motivate people more than money.

I agree with not dealing with an adult I have to coddle. She has been here two years and it seems that in the past year she is getting more challenging in this way by the day. I think that this boundary I have set has put a bit of a jolt into things.

I set my holiday days, paid and unpaid on a document and email it out every November for the following year. I have an unpaid day set out for July, which she remembered to take off of her July cheque. Good to see she is getting it together a little bit.

[Inspired by Reggio]

...I tried to change the amount on their cheques a couple of times with their permission, but they didn't have time to initial over several days, so my payment ended up being quite late after they finally got around to it. I have no interest in hounding people day after day to initial the cheque.....

See this confuses me - it takes 10 seconds how can they not 'have time'? And plus because the change was 'my fault' I do not take issue with having to 'take control' of fixing it so to speak - however I do not let them drop off their child or pick them up without having done it - the day before payday when they arrive I hand them the revised cheque and say 'please initial this so I can do my banking tomorrow' and if it is the other spouse who has to do it I send it HOME to do so that it can be brought back the next day - if they FORGET than it is no different than any other late payment issue bring it by pick up or you will be charged a 'late payment fee'.

Honestly I have never had a client who wanted a 'credit' most of them are eager to get their $$ bank in their hands if I have closed unexpectedly for something???

[clep]

See this confuses me - it takes 10 seconds how can they not 'have time'? And plus because the change was 'my fault' I do not take issue with having to 'take control' of fixing it so to speak - however I do not let them drop off their child or pick them up without having done it - the day before payday when they arrive I hand them the revised cheque and say 'please initial this so I can do my banking tomorrow' and if it is the other spouse who has to do it I send it HOME to do so that it can be brought back the next day - if they FORGET than it is no different than any other late payment issue bring it by pick up or you will be charged a 'late payment fee'.

Honestly I have never had a client who wanted a 'credit' most of them are eager to get their $$ bank in their hands if I have closed unexpectedly for something???

Most parents don't have such terrible time management skills. This particular parent has the "later, I don't have time" attitude with most things these days. She happens to be an engineer and so is her husband so the money in her hands is not something she really cares about at the time, just when she get's around to wanting it.

I can not allow them to drop their child off, which I have done in the past. I asked the parent to sign the cheque before they left and she said she didn't have time so I said for her to take her cheque and bring it back to me signed. She did do that, on Tuesday. I can only guess that since she was angry with me about bugging her to sign it she made sure it was late. She took a couple of days off work, the Friday and the Monday and I charged her a late fee before care resumed. It was a complete pain in the butt.

I can't not allow them to not pick their child up.