About the Provider
Description: Just Like Home, Inc. is a Large Group and School Age Child Care (Group Child Care) in East Longmeadow MA, with a maximum capacity of 45 children. The provider also participates in a subsidized child care program.
Additional Information: Provider First Licensed on: 07/17/2000Financial Assistance Accepted:|Sibling Discount||Voucher|.
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Former employee
Pros:
Good coworkers
On bike trail
Cons:
BOSS/OWNER
Bad pay
No benefits
No days off/sick days
It's really hard for me to write this because there are women that still work for her, that are amazing at their jobs and have nothing to do with what I'm writing. I also was going to keep my opinions to myself, until I found out that the owner sent out a mass email bashing me when I quit... so sad. I loved my job and my coworkers and the kids enrolled (I actually took a lot of the pictures of the kids that are on the Facebook), but absolutely could not deal with the owner. She is the epitome of a 45 year old high school mean girl. She belittles not only you, but the parents of your students as well. That's a really hard thing to deal with, because you are the face the parent sees everyday, so when she's rude to them you get to deal with the backlash. Not only is her personality awful, she also doesn't know how to run a business. Never there, checks late, or just bounce, will get in her employees face. When I quit she wouldn't give me my last check. Tried to say I was allowed 0 sick days or vacation days when I was working 32 hours a week. She's fake and will make you like her at first. She's absolutely awful and I could not deal with working for her business any longer and I told her exactly why. If you work here, it's literally embarrassing to tell anyone in town where you work because people all have the same reaction. I was trying to hold off putting in my two weeks until after her license renewal because I didn't want to leave them hanging. Then she completely belittled me and the next day I came in and the renewal was rescheduled because she wasn't ready (she ended up pushing it back so far that the license actually expired, not sure how she was operating), I was so fed up that I just walked out that day. It was a Friday and my new job I had lined up allowed me to start the next week so I could get out of there. She then asked me to come back saying that I wouldn't have to deal with her, only the director. I declined the offer, and then she sent out a mass email to all the parents bashing me saying I was unprofessional and pretty much didn't know how to do my job.. (which some parents were pretty upset about and forwarded the email to me)
I now work for The Arbors which is an AMAZING company.. immediately made $2 more an hour + benefits. There are MANY parents here that used to have their kids at JLH and they pretty much all say the same thing, and that's the main reason they all pull from JLH. I have met 7 other women, that used to work for her as well and every single one of them have the same opinion of her. It's absolutely ridiculous.
If you are a parent wanting to enroll here, I would highly suggest against it. Your child will have many different teachers (because no one can work for her) and it's very hard for a child to advance in areas like potty training, reading, writing, etc. when their daily routine is constantly changed.
I am shocked that you can do so much for this woman and she can still treat you like garbage and bash you when you leave. This goes for many others, not just me.
Also shocked that she can break countless Mass Labor Laws and not get reported.. maybe I am just sensitive to this because I help run a business on the side and am more familiar to them?
Overall I can say that I am grateful for the learning experience I had there, but even more grateful to use it as a stepping stone to get a much better job. I was burnt out at JLH because work was not fun. I now have a classroom with over double the amount of children and work more hours and come to work excited every single day. Not only because I am at a better center, but because I have an amazing management team here that helps me help my students!
Sad that this has to be posted on Facebook but when it's your job, or your child that you are dealing with, the cold hard truth is needed.
Owner also starts arguments on social media, which is extremely unprofessional as well so I'm expecting something ridiculous in response to this as well which I will not go back and forth.. that is not what this review is for.