do you always bat for your children or do you let them learn the hard way.

@suehan1 (4344)
Australia
July 15, 2008 2:37am CST
well i am in a bit of a dilema here.my daughter 17 nearly 18 was supposed to work tonight,but she thought she had to work tommorrow night.well the lady at her work rang and said she was suppose to be here.my daughter was adamant the she checked the roster and allready had plans for tonight.when i rang the manager back and said she would not be in,she got a bit stroppy about it and said for my daughter to ring her tommorrow.while i spoke to the manager i asked her why my daughter was only getting 3 hours per week when she is on a traineeship from school with this store and was suppose to be getting 9 hours per week.she said she would check into this,but also had a go about this was not the first time my daughter has not read the roster correctly.my dilema is this company has not got a really good reputation for treating their staff very decently,and my daughter really hates working there.i know this woman is going to give her heaps tommorrow,but i believe my daughter was telling me the truth about when she was next working.so do i bat for her or let her take what this woman is going to serve her tommorrow.i don't want my daughter to leave this job until she gets another,but i also don't want her to be treated unfairly,when it could not be her fault.what would you do.cheers sue
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
21 Jul 08
I think you should stay out of it as much as you can, especially if there is a chance that your daughter is not reading the roster, this job is not the job she will have all her life but good bad or ugly it is experience and mommy treats like a baby and fights her battles, where is the experience?
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@suehan1 (4344)
• Australia
24 Jul 08
yes i supose your right rose.its hard especially when your dealing with a big company.cheers sue
@selby70 (283)
15 Jul 08
I had some problems like that when my daughter first started work, the first job she was doing training in hairdressing the shop treated her like dirt she fainted one morning and they let her come round did not contact us and made her work all day, this is were when you bring up your children to respect people, people take advantage of it my daughter worked and never said anything , she never went back to that job. The second job was not much good either as they were all young and my daughter has a little bit of a speech problem and they were making fun of her and I knew that for facts as she brought home a note they had put in her desk drawer. From then on her jobs have been okay and she has done well. It is not your daughter I used to go to a hairdresser and the way the manager spoke to the girls was a disgrace and they have to put up with it as jobs are hard to get I have changed hairdressers now and this one treats her staff with respect and that means more to me than price or anything. And it is always the nice ones they treat like that other not so nice kids would tell them were to get off.
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@suehan1 (4344)
• Australia
15 Jul 08
yes i think that some of these larger companies think they can treat their staff like dirt.how horrible for your daughter.i am positive my daughter did not make a mistake with her roster,and she is careful and respectful.the person who told me this company was notourious for ill treating their staff was actually one of their top managers.so i think i will bat for her.cheers sue