ILuvCowparsely
Well-Known Member
Find it hard to find a good reliably person to cover your yard who has pride in their work and does not zoom through thinking . I do the least poss as I get paid anyway, makes you loose faith in some horsey people.
Anyone else
- Thread starter ILuvCowparsely
- Start date
onemoretime
Well-Known Member
Yes I feel the same. I have had 2 super ladies and several really bad ones who had supposedly qualified at the local Equine College!!. Horses left without water, horses squelching in dirty beds, yard left untidy, feet not picked out stables not mucked out and floors swept and left to dry. You name it I have had it. One girl in fact didn't turn up at all and left 3 horses in their stables until they were discovered in the afternoon by the lady who lives by the yard who very kindly fed and turned them out and texted the wretched girl who finally rolled up at 1.30!!!
ILuvCowparsely
Well-Known Member
OMG that is terrible. This girl is only skipping out as I can see it on cctv only 3 minutes to muck out my horse. I took 2 wheelbarrows out today. It is not on when you pay them good money.
Leandy
Well-Known Member
Have you invited her round for a chat and shown her your CCTV footage? That is what I would do. Then tell her to go away and not come back.
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
If they've recently come from the equine college I'd write to the course supervisor and let them know about it.
ILuvCowparsely
Well-Known Member
Thing is I need a replacement as otherwise I am yet again working 7 days a week.
Leandy
Well-Known Member
Oh dear. Then maybe hold fire on letting her know about the CCTV and just see if she can be managed to do a better job via clear instructions and setting out expectations. If you haven't already then I would write down an indicative timetable of what you expect her to do when, how long you expect it to take and be clear what each task involves. Then there is no room for argument that she thought you only meant x when you meant y. You can couch it as training her up in how your yard works. Then see if it improves. Fingers crossed for you!
MidChristmasCrisis
Well-Known Member
I’m in a similar position..ish…the yard I’ve moved to said they provide assisted/full livery when necessary and this turns out to be another livery who “provides services” . It turns out this livery doesnt work weekends and isn’t professional in any sense…no insurance, no door shutting, sweeping up, will only take small barrow of poo out if mucking out, chooses how much hay she will feed your horse, drags horses out without fully fastening headcollars so throat latch buckle end swings about, and I’ve seen her physically chastise the horses and Im not sure how to bring it up with YO as they have a long term association. Oh and complains about the folk who use her and provide income. ?
PinkvSantaboots
Well-Known Member
I've experienced some horrors over the years one place I worked at I did mucking out for someone at weekends, the girl that did them in the week clearly wasn't mucking out each stable was at least 3 barrows and when I spoke to the owner and showed her she was horrified, she asked me if I wanted her job but I then ended up doing 7 days a week most weeks because she sacked her and we couldn't find anyone else.
When I ran yards some owners never mucked out properly and would just pay me to do there horse once a week hoping I would clear it out for them I got wise to that pretty quick.
One livery I had her beds were so bad I threatened to give her notice several times, I noticed her pony was lame in the field one day git her in looked her over and found maggots in her feet disgusting ?
I've worked with some terribly lazy people that literally did nothing but sit around and drink tea, I found it really hard to get decent staff but I must say a lot of the liveries were worse.
When I ran yards some owners never mucked out properly and would just pay me to do there horse once a week hoping I would clear it out for them I got wise to that pretty quick.
One livery I had her beds were so bad I threatened to give her notice several times, I noticed her pony was lame in the field one day git her in looked her over and found maggots in her feet disgusting ?
I've worked with some terribly lazy people that literally did nothing but sit around and drink tea, I found it really hard to get decent staff but I must say a lot of the liveries were worse.