Just need to rant!!!
Just collected my son from nursery (where I also work but have now broken up for maternity) to find out that a colleague has been off today with the stomach bug but still sent her children in for a full day!
I'm furious as this particular colleague normally complains about parents sending in their children to "spread" the sick bug whilst they're at home and causing staff to become unwell. I'm also furious as she knows I'm so close to having my 2nd baby any day and one of her children is in the same room as my son! This colleague in the past has always gone on about how vulnerable newborns are but all of a sudden she is doing exactly what she moans about!
Part of me wants to message her and have a go but I know it's pointless 😭
I now feel that I've got to keep my son off nursery until at least a month after baby is born just to help protect us all, but I know they will still expect me to pay for his space!
Sorry to rant on here but it's safer than messaging work!
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She has the stomach bug or the kids do ??? Or is everyone sick?
If she is sick but her kid isn't, l don't see where is the problem sometimes the virus is just not spreading around... but if she makes noise about the same thing then she is has her issues....
Have you tried looking after little ones when you’re really sick 😅 I’d send them in too if they are well.
My colleague is sick but with incubation period ect, by the children going into nursery, they are technically spreading the virus which my colleague knows as we witness it every year
I would be fuming too - im with you!!
I kept my son off for a month before too!!
Just because her son isnt ill, doesnt mean he isn’t infectious before symptoms show and carrying the virus on his clothes from his mum to then potentially pass on to staff and other kids.
Parents that do this are so selfish!!
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Just need to rant!!!
Just collected my son from nursery (where I also work but have now broken up for maternity) to find out that a colleague has been off today with the stomach bug but still sent her children in for a full day!
I'm furious as this particular colleague normally complains about parents sending in their children to "spread" the sick bug whilst they're at home and causing staff to become unwell. I'm also furious as she knows I'm so close to having my 2nd baby any day and one of her children is in the same room as my son! This colleague in the past has always gone on about how vulnerable newborns are but all of a sudden she is doing exactly what she moans about!
Part of me wants to message her and have a go but I know it's pointless 😭
I now feel that I've got to keep my son off nursery until at least a month after baby is born just to help protect us all, but I know they will still expect me to pay for his space!
Sorry to rant on here but it's safer than messaging work!
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