Long story short, almost 3 months ago we hired my basically sister-in-law as an assistant working 30-35 hours a week. She did an awesome job, especially with all the diaper changes which I hate doing. Well she's asked me 4 different times when she will get a raise and I've always said as soon as we get the money (we only opened 4 months ago and have lots of start-up expenses). Today she asked me again when she will get one and I told her that once she's been here 90 days she will get a 50cent raise on one condition: she cuts back on her cell phone usage. She is constantly on it either texting or on FB. We (my mom and I co-own) have never addressed this issue before, but it is something we've wanted to mention to her. We have never been bosses before and thought this would be a good time to say something. Well she went off! She said she's only on it because she's bored and doesn't have anything to do. BS! I told her there is plenty to do, either ask or just start cleaning something! I'll be honest, we don't clean all of our toys nearly enough and she knows it. So if she's that bored then she can pick up a rag and a bleach bottle and start cleaning. But that's not the only time she's on her phone. The other day she's sitting on the couch feeding a 3month old and texting while I'm doing dishes. I hear something and come around the corner to find a 1yr old boy and my 7month old daughter getting into candy that was up on a shelf out of their reach and they were 3 feet away from her but she didn't even look up from her phone once! Anyways, she's telling me tonight about how I don't delegate duties to her and I'm lazy and she shouldn't have to work harder than I do (I'm here 12 hours a day plus work after hours and on weekends!) and that my mom works harder than I do and is here less. I asked her if she even considered me as her boss and she said no because I have no boss qualities. I said here's me being your boss: your fired! Am I wrong? I mean would anyone else talk to their boss that way?
And now I'm losing my assistant and my PT assistant (which is her cousin who I know won't work here any more) and my mom can only put in 20-30 hours a week because she has another PT job, and we have a new kid starting Monday so we have 10-12 kids at all times from 3months-3rd grade and we were just about to rearrange the whole daycare this weekend and create centers, which we've never done before because we barely know what the heck we're doing, but now I don't know what to do and all I keep thinking about is the fact that this will be my daughter's first Thanksgiving and Christmas and it's probably going to be ruined all because of me asking her to stop using her cell phone as much.
And now I'm losing my assistant and my PT assistant (which is her cousin who I know won't work here any more) and my mom can only put in 20-30 hours a week because she has another PT job, and we have a new kid starting Monday so we have 10-12 kids at all times from 3months-3rd grade and we were just about to rearrange the whole daycare this weekend and create centers, which we've never done before because we barely know what the heck we're doing, but now I don't know what to do and all I keep thinking about is the fact that this will be my daughter's first Thanksgiving and Christmas and it's probably going to be ruined all because of me asking her to stop using her cell phone as much.
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