Rant about the unwritten rules!!!

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I love my livery yard, I am on part livery and the yard manager is excellent and I always know my horse is in good hands!!! But the yard owner can be such a git!!!

Today he was so rude to a newbie and it was so unfair! Does anyone else have a yard that appears to make the rules up as they go along, one rule for one and normally you dont know you have broken a rule until yr getting bitched about or moaned at???
Rant over!!!
 
Yep, thats just like my yard!!

It drives me insane it really does, along with the 1 rule for 1 and 1 for everyone else
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I can't say too much because I will start to rant and I am sure you don't want me to hijack your post with a huge long rant
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Happens all the time. There are very few professional yards about that run the yard for the horses and not for the people and that arent bitchy!
 
oh yes the old yard i used to be at i'd go up and there'd be signs or letters with hints in them as to what i was expected to do, thankfully i moved my horse to an older couples small private yard with just their 2 horses and my one and it is 100 times better. i feel your pain i used to come home from yard so angry and wound up. x
 
yep our yard was amazing only small group of us and we all got along great.
however since a new girl moved in over the summer she continually takes other peoples turnout fields because she has wrecked her own which upsets other peoples horses (hers is the only mare on the yard) and generally leaves the yard in a big mess, GRR!
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one person has already left because of her and she has upset another.
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On 90% of yards the great unwritten will often come out - some times no one knows where the "unwritten rule" came from - including those who run or own the yard......

Usually continued by some sort of control freak, sad interfearing individual or just a nasty female dog!

Serioulsy - feel sorry for anyone who comes across the unwrittens, but then again i dont feel sorry for the ones that:-
leave lights on
leave water buckets under a free flowing tap and wonder off for an hour
tip water all over the yard- when the forcast is for minus 4 and i have to turn the horses out
those who dont shut gates
those who dont poo pick the schools
those who leave poo in the middle of the walkway and dont clean it up
those who leave a horse out on its own
those who put charlie band on the muck heap -when it ends up on the resting field.....

do we really need any of the above "written"
 
Lol, I'm a newbie am I :-) Certainly don't worry about it on my account as I know his bark's worse than his bite and I found it funny!

I do think they could be better at letting us know what the rules are and not to do rather than it going around in whispers, which is never good.

I still think we should write down what we think the rules are and submit them for approval!!
 
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On 90% of yards the great unwritten will often come out - some times no one knows where the "unwritten rule" came from - including those who run or own the yard......

Usually continued by some sort of control freak, sad interfearing individual or just a nasty female dog!

Serioulsy - feel sorry for anyone who comes across the unwrittens, but then again i dont feel sorry for the ones that:-
leave lights on
leave water buckets under a free flowing tap and wonder off for an hour
tip water all over the yard- when the forcast is for minus 4 and i have to turn the horses out
those who dont shut gates
those who dont poo pick the schools
those who leave poo in the middle of the walkway and dont clean it up
those who leave a horse out on its own
those who put charlie band on the muck heap -when it ends up on the resting field.....

do we really need any of the above "written"

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I completely agree I run a small yard and i compiled a list of general rules but there are a lot of things that aren’t on the "Rule List" because i thought they were common sense. I didn’t think a rule stating please pick up after your horse was needed, oh how wrong was I.

If you present a person with a list as long as your arm of Do's and Don’ts then they will thing you are a control freak but if you expect them to use some common sense then they will say "oh i didn’t know i needed to do that" you can’t win.
 
BFG you have my sympathy as I can imagine it must be a nightmare to be the otherside of the fence so to speak! The only thing that I would say is that I'd always rather have the rules, even it it is a long list, especially if it is delivered in a "I know this is mostly common sense..." way.

The problem can sometimes be that something that is blindingly obvious and common sense to people who have owned and looked after horses for a long time, might not be obvious to some of us newbies :-)
 
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