fine_and_dandy
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Things at my yard are pretty good, no real yard politics between liveries so to speak. However, the one problem that has grown bigger and bigger is...my YO. At first I though it was just me that had issues with her but it appears the whole yard does! When I first got there they had a yard booklet which explained the moving in procedure when you first got there etc. It said that she would help you settle in, worm pony etc and the wormer would go on the next months bill. SO I waited around trying to speak to her, but she avoided me like the plague. I eventually managed to corner her dad who also runs the yard and asked him about the wormer. He looked at me and said "the stables and the shop are kept strictly separate" and then wouldn't speak to me for a week.
when I went away on holiday I told her numerous times that I was going away on holiday and what I needed them to do for ponio and wrote it on the board. When I got back, she then told me that I should have told her and written her a letter...she never said about the letter and she knew damn well I was going away!
whenever I need to ask her about something her line to me is "i'm not working now".
I have been able to put up with this for a bit, but there are two instances of last week that riled me and the other liveries! i decided to keep ponio in overnight to be turned out in the morning at the end of last working week. I let YO know and her response was "I would rather you didn't give me any more work to do for tomorrow as I am the only full timer working tomorrow". Ponio stayed in eventually anyway because he was showing signs of being laminitic but my point is that I pay £4.00 a day for turn out - if YO is too tight to employ more staff it isn't my problem?! and she would be going down to the same field anyway as she has to turn one the horses out who shares a field with my pony!
the biggest issue has come with the new indoor schools. These were supposed to be ready in September and we have been fobbed off continually, mainly because the signs "had to be put up". One exasperated livery replied to her by saying "well go and get them and we will help you" to which YO walked off and wouldn't speak to anyone. We finally have been told that we can use the indoor school - only the small one - but subject to one of the most ridiculous rules I have heard. There must be two horses and riders in there at all times - no "on ground supervision" allowed. Apparently this is for health and safety. So if and when someone falls off and injures themself, there would be a situation whereby there is one rider, two horses and one injured....health and safety this isn't. The school itself is not big enough for 2 horses over 16.2 to work properly, and the two rider rule also causes an issue in that most of us do not have someone we could definitely have riding with us. The funny thing is, these rules didn't apply in the old indoor school!
phew, sorry that was long but needed it off my chest! what do you think? a lot of us (at last count 10) were pretty much made up that we will move yards.
when I went away on holiday I told her numerous times that I was going away on holiday and what I needed them to do for ponio and wrote it on the board. When I got back, she then told me that I should have told her and written her a letter...she never said about the letter and she knew damn well I was going away!
whenever I need to ask her about something her line to me is "i'm not working now".
I have been able to put up with this for a bit, but there are two instances of last week that riled me and the other liveries! i decided to keep ponio in overnight to be turned out in the morning at the end of last working week. I let YO know and her response was "I would rather you didn't give me any more work to do for tomorrow as I am the only full timer working tomorrow". Ponio stayed in eventually anyway because he was showing signs of being laminitic but my point is that I pay £4.00 a day for turn out - if YO is too tight to employ more staff it isn't my problem?! and she would be going down to the same field anyway as she has to turn one the horses out who shares a field with my pony!
the biggest issue has come with the new indoor schools. These were supposed to be ready in September and we have been fobbed off continually, mainly because the signs "had to be put up". One exasperated livery replied to her by saying "well go and get them and we will help you" to which YO walked off and wouldn't speak to anyone. We finally have been told that we can use the indoor school - only the small one - but subject to one of the most ridiculous rules I have heard. There must be two horses and riders in there at all times - no "on ground supervision" allowed. Apparently this is for health and safety. So if and when someone falls off and injures themself, there would be a situation whereby there is one rider, two horses and one injured....health and safety this isn't. The school itself is not big enough for 2 horses over 16.2 to work properly, and the two rider rule also causes an issue in that most of us do not have someone we could definitely have riding with us. The funny thing is, these rules didn't apply in the old indoor school!
phew, sorry that was long but needed it off my chest! what do you think? a lot of us (at last count 10) were pretty much made up that we will move yards.
