Mooloo’s Managing it in 2018

beanielou

Not a good start for your new start.
What do some people think.

Savvy_sewing

beanielou wrote: »

Not a good start for your new start.
What do some people think.

My instinct is to wonder if she's serious about the job or thinks that she's going to be on a cushty number.
I would never dare to say that on my first day!

beanielou

Mooloo wrote: »

My instinct is to wonder if she's serious about the job or thinks that she's going to be on a cushty number.
I would never dare to say that on my first day!

Well most people wouldent.
Especially when jobs are so scarce.
Is she young?

Savvy_sewing

beanielou wrote: »

Well most people wouldent.
Especially when jobs are so scarce.
Is she young?

No she's in her 40s I think

mrmechanic

Mooloo wrote: »

Here we go.
New lady due to start tomorrow and has just text to say she needs to leave at 2.30 to go see a rescue dog!
Not a great start to your first day on the job is it!

Thank you for the text letting me know you will only be working till 2.30.
Unfortunately you may have sent this to the wrong person as the job i have a vacancy for is not flexi time, i state the times my employees work and not them.:rotfl:

Chrystal

mrmechanic wrote: »

Thank you for the text letting me know you will only be working till 2.30.
Unfortunately you may have sent this to the wrong person as the job i have a vacancy for is not flexi time, i state the times my employees work and not them.:rotfl:

Love it! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Savvy_sewing

Oh wish I had thought of that. I had just replied with OK. See you tomorrow.
So I am now thinking about the words that need to be said on her arrival at 9.30. Unfortunately it doesn't help that I have very little voice at the moment.
I am definitely going to have to get a back bone, and insist that the job is taken seriously and that time is money.
While I sort of watched the football I spent the time reading, studying my Portuguese, and then I needed to start on a new journal so I started to transfer the budget figures from recently worked info in the last journal.
I also re thought my goals.
I realise that my business is more important to me than I thought of late. That my health needs to be improved still further, and that the debts of my children are what I have accumulated in the past few years, and that I doubt that I will see my Son paying me back anything anytime soon.
Seeing houses in Portugal for £30,000 -£60,000 that would make my dreams come true, that might as well have an extra couple of noughts on the end for how close I am, I realise that focusing on my expenses, and bringing in more cash to do down the debt and rebuild the savings pot is the next most important thing to me at the moment.
I realised that my family/ relationships are less of a priority than I used to think. Obviously Mum and DGD are the two most important people to me, but I have become disappointed with the adult kids, and I don't want to get close to the babies and little people anymore because I cannot take the hurt.
So the steps towards my goals are to take better care of my health, do down the debts and rebuild the savings, and rebuild the business profit line.
To do down the debts I am going to have to say no to my friend a little more, and suggest she comes round for tea instead of going to the pub. Reduce it to one a month maybe.
Stop popping into the shop next door for bargain clothes I really don't need and only want ( mind you she is closing down at the end of the month so that will be easier).
Draw up better cost sheets, time sheets and spreadsheets so that I can see at a glance the business facts and figures.
Ok I can do this. (Again!)

Chrystal

Oh Mooloo I feel for you, I really do.

I hope the new seamstress has taken on board that the job is one that requires some responsibility from her. You need to know that she won't drop you in it at the last second! Initially at least you need to be the 'boss' and not the nice lady who's paying her to spend a few hours in her shop each week!

I can also empathise with reality hitting home with regards to retrieving money lent to the kids
Not just me, but my 2 closest friends have (and are) in the same position. It's taken us years ( the said kids are now well into their 40's) to realise that WE allowed the situation to happen. I think it's to do with us having no help from parents etc when we were starting out (none of them had the money to help out) so tried to ensure that our kids had the help that we didn't .

Unfortunately all it did was make them think that the bank of Mam was a bottomless pit :mad: I've written off tens of thousands and have only in the last year or so learned to say NO and mean it. I think it's the hardest thing I've ever learned to do.

Cling to your dreams Mooloo, because you CAN make them happen, if you learn to put yourself first.... if you don't nobody else will/ ((((hugs))))

Savvy_sewing

Seamstress gone as she couldn't do very much at all when it came to starting. Luckily in general chat I showed her some of the jobs recently done, like the fleece cut by the paramedics that had to be pieced together and the zip replaced. She couldn't believe that you couldn't see my stitches except under the magnifying glass. A dress that had a ladder in the fabric, knitted fabric that I had to knit the stitches up so it was nearly invisible.
I said that perhaps she was punching above her weight and that if she needed training then she's going to have to go on minimum wage.
When she went to go home she came down and said that actually she was not up to it and wasn't going to come back.
So the search to get another one is on again.

I am going to work as hard as I can, to get my dreams

beanielou

Blimey, you could not make it up.