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Shit's getting real around here....  

secret_lade 49F
14388 posts
4/6/2020 3:40 pm
Shit's getting real around here....


I came home from work today and discovered a new posting on the door to my building.

"Non Essential Visitors Not Allowed"

It went on to list what was considered essential and non essential.

Babysitting.... Non essential.

To all those parents who are still required to work, babysitting is VERY essential. It wasn't all that long ago that I would be overcome with stress and fear at times because I had nobody to watch my and I feared snow days and school breaks because I would have to miss work.

Missing work meant bad attendance.... Bad attendance meant getting in trouble at work or even the loss of my job.

Not to mention missing an entire days worth of pay...

I feel for all those working parents out there right now. I know this can't be easy.

secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
4/9/2020 2:15 pm

    Quoting dayzeeme:
    ok, THAT is just not right ... they HAVE to be considered essential!!!
Management updated the posting to state you cannot babysit outside children in your home. The governor extended the shelter at home thing another 2 weeks.... I really feel for those working parents.


dayzeeme 55F
7024 posts
4/9/2020 11:22 am

ok, THAT is just not right ... they HAVE to be considered essential!!!


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
4/7/2020 4:13 pm

    Quoting lindoboy100:
    Similar guidelines here, but there are obvious exemptions, such as your circumstances, for key workers.

    Shit's really getting real......I found out someone I had sat in an all day meeting with 4 weeks ago had been ill with the virus for the last 3 weeks! Yikes! I did a count back immediately I heard, no clear symptoms for me, phew! People really need to pay this thing far more respect than they are!

    Over 350,000 confirmed cases in the US with the true number estimated to be 10 to 20 times higher.

    I hope your customers are showing a bit more restraint this week. Take care!
I witnissed something that made my day today. One of the floor associates was on break, making a purchase at the register, and a customer went out of his way to thank her for coming in to work today. He told her he was very appreciative of her service wished her and her family luck and health.

And, he was very genuine.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
4/7/2020 3:43 pm

    Quoting tickles4us:
    Lawyers, management for the complex says it all. Haven't met many lawyers that weren't worthless lying pieces of self centered shit balls. I agree that it is likely someone complained about Grandma down the hall. People can be assholes.

    They shut down the daycare places for all but the essential workers here the last I had heard. Haven't heard anything about baby sitters in home. Which is a lot better then sending large groups of kids to daycares.

    Stupid shit comes out when stupid people have the power to think they can make rules for the good of others.
When I got home today, there was a new posting. This posting stated that we were not not allowed to babysit for outside children, and the old posting was gone. Someone must have brought up the fact that essential workers were allowed to have childcare in their home to allow them to work.


tickles4us 62M
7262 posts
4/7/2020 8:46 am

Lawyers, management for the complex says it all. Haven't met many lawyers that weren't worthless lying pieces of self centered shit balls. I agree that it is likely someone complained about Grandma down the hall. People can be assholes.

They shut down the daycare places for all but the essential workers here the last I had heard. Haven't heard anything about baby sitters in home. Which is a lot better then sending large groups of kids to daycares.

Stupid shit comes out when stupid people have the power to think they can make rules for the good of others.

Vive La Difference


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
4/7/2020 2:21 am

    Quoting benard69:
    Child care in Michigan is essential so that's horseshit!
Yes it is!!


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
4/7/2020 2:20 am

    Quoting lonlyforlove2:
    I think I would want the local TV reporter to see that, may put a different spin on it, in these cases "the babysitter" is essential.. Sometimes a TV reporter can make enough noise to get that resolved, good luck, be safe
In this case, I think that posting was for the benefit of one of my neighbors down the hall that babysits in her home. She babysits her grandchildren in her home, as opposed to going to the child's home. I'm wondering if someone called and complained to the apartment manager that she constantly had people coming in and out of the building.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
4/7/2020 2:17 am

    Quoting jajo696:
    Yup....thats def a rock and a hard place. Our Gov closed all Child Care centers 2 weeks ago, and left a few open for only those essential worker families.

    Yet, as a commentor stated, how could they enforce that. Just another battle , with the stance of, " i am an essential worker and i need child care, what would you suggest?"

    These are definitely crazy crazy times ~~
Crazy times indeed.... I'll just be so happy to be able to put this all behind me.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
4/7/2020 2:14 am

    Quoting  :

Oh my word.... I have no words for this one. LOL


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
4/7/2020 2:12 am

    Quoting Paulxx001:
    'Baby sitters' - ❗❗❗ I just thought of them right now. Wow.
    That is a challenge for some.
I got divorced when my daughter was 2... So I struggled with childcare for years as a working, single mom. I have a special place in my heart for all those working parents out there because I know just what they're going through. It's hard to find a childcare solution to begin with, especially when your kids are school age as providers prefer to have a kid that is full time as opposed to someone who is only there after school or on a snow day.


lindoboy100 61M
23969 posts
4/7/2020 2:11 am

Similar guidelines here, but there are obvious exemptions, such as your circumstances, for key workers.

Shit's really getting real......I found out someone I had sat in an all day meeting with 4 weeks ago had been ill with the virus for the last 3 weeks! Yikes! I did a count back immediately I heard, no clear symptoms for me, phew! People really need to pay this thing far more respect than they are!

Over 350,000 confirmed cases in the US with the true number estimated to be 10 to 20 times higher.

I hope your customers are showing a bit more restraint this week. Take care!


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
4/7/2020 2:08 am

    Quoting TicklePlease:
    I'd be curious how that's even enforceable...
Honestly, I don't think it can be. The governor's decree allows for childcare in the home.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
4/7/2020 2:05 am

    Quoting mc_justmc:
    I think whoever came up with that "decree" is non-essential.
The lawyers for the management company that manages my complex... They own apartment complexes all over Michigan.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
4/7/2020 2:03 am

    Quoting easy_going2014:
    Perhaps, if you explained that your "essential" business requires you to be there, that may grant you an exception.

    I hope that is the case

    be safe


I'm unsure what's going to happen here... But I am so very thankful I'm not battling the babysitter challenge anymore.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
4/7/2020 1:59 am

    Quoting 69ereatwetpussy:
    And if the person that comes in to baby sit is not standing next to any one what the harm stay in side what the harm. My brother in-law own a day care he now at home sick he close the day care. So how many kids need to be watched and parents like you said have to work. Ild say FK them.
My apartment complex is owned by a large housing management company, I'm certain they are just looking at impact of lawsuit from tenants. There is a woman who lives down the hall from me that babysits in her home for her grandchildren, I'm wondering if the posting was for her. I think that parents are allowed to bring babysitters into their home for their children but they can't be trucking their children around to go to the babysitters house.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
4/7/2020 1:53 am

    Quoting pagancountrygirl:
    So those who have younger children who can not be left alone...will be left alone if parent(s) have to leave to go to work? Who the hell determined that babysitters are non-essential? Of course, having an outsider around your child is not good at this time, either. Kind of the rock and hard place situation....
I decided to read Governor Whitmer's decree to see what it said... I had read portions of it as it related to my job, my company has been doing a great job keeping us all informed as everything has been changing almost daily, but never the whole thing.

For childcare, it's listed as essential travel for only the purposes of taking care of the child in the child's home. Which means, babysitters are considered essential visitors.

For purposes of this order, critical infrastructure workers also include:


Child care workers (including workers at disaster relief child care centers), but only to the extent necessary to serve the children or dependents of critical infrastructure workers as defined in this order.
This category includes individuals (whether licensed or not) who have arranged to care for the children or dependents of critical infrastructure workers.


benard69 66M/66F  

4/6/2020 8:16 pm

Child care in Michigan is essential so that's horseshit!


lonlyforlove2 81M  
32704 posts
4/6/2020 7:23 pm

I think I would want the local TV reporter to see that, may put a different spin on it, in these cases "the babysitter" is essential.. Sometimes a TV reporter can make enough noise to get that resolved, good luck, be safe

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jajo696 113F
4287 posts
4/6/2020 6:45 pm

Yup....thats def a rock and a hard place. Our Gov closed all Child Care centers 2 weeks ago, and left a few open for only those essential worker families.

Yet, as a commentor stated, how could they enforce that. Just another battle , with the stance of, " i am an essential worker and i need child care, what would you suggest?"

These are definitely crazy crazy times ~~


Paulxx001 67M
22642 posts
4/6/2020 6:18 pm

'Baby sitters' - ❗❗❗ I just thought of them right now. Wow.
That is a challenge for some.


TicklePlease 56F  
13851 posts
4/6/2020 5:57 pm

I'd be curious how that's even enforceable...


mc_justmc 63M

4/6/2020 5:48 pm

I think whoever came up with that "decree" is non-essential.


easy_going2014 57M
14366 posts
4/6/2020 5:29 pm

Perhaps, if you explained that your "essential" business requires you to be there, that may grant you an exception.

I hope that is the case

be safe



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69ereatwetpussy 61M
6774 posts
4/6/2020 5:09 pm

And if the person that comes in to baby sit is not standing next to any one what the harm stay in side what the harm. My brother in-law own a day care he now at home sick he close the day care. So how many kids need to be watched and parents like you said have to work. Ild say FK them.


pagancountrygirl 66F
6466 posts
4/6/2020 4:53 pm

So those who have younger children who can not be left alone...will be left alone if parent(s) have to leave to go to work? Who the hell determined that babysitters are non-essential? Of course, having an outsider around your child is not good at this time, either. Kind of the rock and hard place situation....

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