Actually can’t stop laughing in disbelief...some people

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Have had a bit of a situation this week where I had to give one of my liveries notice. She turned around and said “I know the rest of the liveries think I am above them, its because I am….” And various other delightful comments, such as how she “…really cant cope with DIY ‘people’ who compete at a local level” etc etc etc – I wont have it on the yard, so I suggested she would be better off finding somewhere else to keep her horse. I really try to keep people happy (see post below re: livery who never comes up) but that took the biscuit, and one bad apple and all that!

So, I told her in the conversation that I was giving her a months notice, and stated in the text I would write something more official. I have just emailed her “official” notice, and got a reply saying “…being at a DIY yard was never going to suit me…” and she would give her notice letter in at the weekend to my mother (my mum has nothing to do with the yard apart from doing the books)

Is that normal? I really don’t need one as I have given her hers!!!!

Am I going loopy? If you give someone notice do they need to give theirs?
 
No don't think they do lol!
Suppose at least they're going they probably will tell new yards that THEY have given you notice as definitely won't sound as bad as YOU giving them notice.
Some people are delusional no matter what you say to them.You do have to laugh at them tho
 
I wouldnt have thought so! I'd expect the notice to be effective as stated in your letter, she just needs to accept it and arrange somewhere else for her and her "high horse" Excuse the pun!!!
 
Its mad! You will be better off without her! We kicked someone off the yard last week for being really rude to anyther livery (we don't tolerate any bitching). After we gave him a months notice, he write us a letter explaining why he had chosen to leave, which included a whole paragraph on how we abuse our horses!!! He even said ''The way you abuse your mare makes me weep'. And there was I thinking he was perfectly happy picking on a 16 year old livery client and that WE asked him to leave for being rude to her! Not the other way round! And I'm pretty sure I don't abuse any of my horses!!!
 
I'd reply to her saying: 'you've missunderstood. I'm serving YOU your notice and therefore want you and your horse to have left the premises by X date'

That way she's got no come back.
 
No i have to say a huge number of liveries are truly certifiable, this ones behaviour is about par for the course for some of them. I have just asked one of my liveries to leave because she was using a cat poop scoop to muck out into a small black bucket. In fact she was taking one small black bucket of horse muck out of her stable every day - shame she was leaveing about 20 others in there and the muck was getting deeper and deeper. When I suggested she paid us to muck out she was amazed. How dare i suggest she was not mucking out. She also insisted it was my fault that there was poo in the stable as I wouldn't let her keep her horses out 24/7. i gave her notice. Anyway today she phoned me at 6.30am to tell me she was leaving today - i informed her I had done her final bill and added on £10 per stable to dig them out ready to be jetwashed. she was furious that I had the cheek to charge her so much - after all it would only take 10 mins to do both. No idea how she worked that out - think about it 2 horses have been using their stable nightly for 1 1/2 months and she wasn't mucking out! They are about 6 inches deep in muck, old bedding and pee. She had had the contract which states that on leaving stables must be emptied completely or a charge of £10 per stable will be charged in the final bill
 
Bosworth, you need to move to Surrey - at my old DIY yard it was £10 to have your horse skipped out, rug changed and watered, and £25 to have it dug out!
 
She probably thinks she can lie and say "I gave notice, I was not given notice" so that she looks good and can find somewhere else, retaining her snootiness
 
Sounds a bit like the 'I was going to break up with you anyway' response. Her notice might make for fun reading :) she's trying to undermine you by giving it to your mum, I would explain that if she feel the need to put anything in writing she should address it to the proprietoress which is you!
 
some liveries are utterly mental. been there, seen it. we could probably write a book on it...!
of course, some are lovely and sane and normal and nice too, but they wouldn't make such good stories...
Bosworth, i'd charge more than £10 to clear out a deep litter stable... in fact, i'd tell her she wasn't allowed to take her horses until the stables were absolutely cleared! Yuck.
 
Maybe they do.Know up here there are some yards that will phone old yards and ask about prospective liveries.Also have known YO's to ask among the local general horsey folk to find out more about people.
 
Am in the same boat - despite struggling for weeks to 'help' a family we asked them to leave.

Their stable was amazing, the shavings were rotting so well they were full of worms! At least that will help my much heap to disintegrate!!

I had intended to charge them for 1 1/2 hours work, digging out and jet washing, but in the knowledge that they wouldn't pay I let it go to avoid the hassle, our last conversation was infuriating as they claimed to have 'lost' 2 sets of keys to the yard, tack room, feed room and jump store. I will of course foot the bill to change the locks but it makes me wonder why people try it on so much and think that their £20 a week DIY makes us a vast profit and hence we are prime targets!!

But the sun is shining, got all the resting paddocks harrowed and fertilised and the horses are beginning to get their summer coats, so life isn't too bad.

OH is not keen to have another livery though and is almost hoping that the others disappear.....
 
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