The New Sitter
We have new person watching Ike these days, as we think the other woman we had hired was having difficulty NOT trying to buy drugs while she was watching the little man. Fortunately for us, the late night wrong phone number calls also seem to have dried up with her departure, so Sweetie and I no longer have to look at each other trying to figure out who the hell would be calling us at 11 o’clock at night.
As I've said before on this site, Ike is really pretty easy to take care of. He likes to watch a little TV, he likes to have books read to him, he enjoys going out for walks if he’s warm enough and if you can handle pumping gas, you can handle the feeding part. I think that if you just have a little common sense it’s a pretty good gig, if you don’t mind the boredom part of it.
So yesterday is this woman’s first day with the boy, and not five minutes after she arrives, she’s telling Sweetie all about how her roommate’s son was removed by Child Protective Services due to a misunderstanding about the chafing on his neck caused by a poorly fit car seat restraint.
Sweetie was speechless…Why oh why can’t people keep their big yaps shut? This is light conversation? Clearly this woman lacks a bit in a “common sense” area, unless this was some strange way to elicit sympathy and by doing so make a tighter bond with us. But REALLY, is it ever considered a good idea to bring something like this up with your employer after only just meeting them?
I really don’t know what we’re going to do here…she seems nice enough otherwise, and comes well recommended, but this lack of tact has me somewhat concerned.
As I've said before on this site, Ike is really pretty easy to take care of. He likes to watch a little TV, he likes to have books read to him, he enjoys going out for walks if he’s warm enough and if you can handle pumping gas, you can handle the feeding part. I think that if you just have a little common sense it’s a pretty good gig, if you don’t mind the boredom part of it.
So yesterday is this woman’s first day with the boy, and not five minutes after she arrives, she’s telling Sweetie all about how her roommate’s son was removed by Child Protective Services due to a misunderstanding about the chafing on his neck caused by a poorly fit car seat restraint.
Sweetie was speechless…Why oh why can’t people keep their big yaps shut? This is light conversation? Clearly this woman lacks a bit in a “common sense” area, unless this was some strange way to elicit sympathy and by doing so make a tighter bond with us. But REALLY, is it ever considered a good idea to bring something like this up with your employer after only just meeting them?
I really don’t know what we’re going to do here…she seems nice enough otherwise, and comes well recommended, but this lack of tact has me somewhat concerned.
I guess we could always go back to interviewing college students.
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