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You Know You Are Me When…

You finally were given a chance to work in a daycare and this last week was your trial period.
You worked 9 and half and ten hour days all week, commuting by tram to an independantly owned daycare in a house where there was no flushing toilet, chickens in the yard and fruit flies everywhere.
You were thrown into a rather chaotic environment full of babies and a few toddlers with the occasional preschooler and you were never actually shown where anything was.
You did all of this entirely in a language you were not totally fluent in, busted your ass to do what you thought was your absolute best in the given situation…

And were basically told today that you weren’t efficient or “take charge” enough for the position.

Yeah…when you’re absolute best is never good enough? Then you know you’re me.

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  1. July 17th, 2009 at 23:30 | #1

    Sounds more like you were taken advantage of in a disgusting situation. I’m sorry that it was a bad experience, but it doesn’t sound like a daycare that I would want my child in.

  2. judie
    July 18th, 2009 at 03:32 | #2

    I know it sucks, but at least you tried! their loss, thats all I can say :)

  3. July 18th, 2009 at 08:11 | #3

    Man, you just can’t get a break. It sounds like those people have no ability to make a sound judgment about anything, let alone efficiency.

  4. July 18th, 2009 at 16:09 | #4

    Where were you? I mean, no flushing toilet? Full of fruit flies? Somewhere in the rimboe? And they told you you were not good enough? As Thalia’s child says, you were taken advantage of! That’s for sure!!!
    Don’t you worry! They’re not worthy of you!

  5. Enigma
    July 18th, 2009 at 17:48 | #5

    I know YOU and when you do your absolute best,there is no better!!!!!
    Doesn’t sound like the type of daycare environment you’d like to be working anyway.

  6. July 19th, 2009 at 06:45 | #6

    sometimes there are battles you can’t win no matter what you do. The place sounds like chaos and honestly, you might have just been too good for it. Hang in there. Don’t give up,please

  7. July 19th, 2009 at 16:46 | #7

    Ugh, that does suck. I’m pretty sure it’s them, not you. Try not to let it get you down too much. Easier said than done.

  8. July 20th, 2009 at 20:32 | #8

    That sucks! And I agree with my sister’s comment, you were taken advantage of and the place is not fit to be a chrildren’s daycare center. I’m sure if they got the health inspectors over they would have to close the place down. I wish they would!

  9. July 21st, 2009 at 20:10 | #9

    i want to go to thesaurus.com and find a synonym for “sucks”, but instead i’ll just join the “sucks” crowd. that’s cool too.

    but this is not. it is so uncool. almost bad-steve-martin-movie uncool. i think you know what i mean.

  10. July 23rd, 2009 at 11:22 | #10

    no flushing toilet? is this daycare controlled by “Kind& Gezin”? if so you should report them! If not, ….I’d not trust them even beforehand.

    Yikes! doesn’t like the place you’d want to get a job.

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