Daycare Troubles

Trisha worked in insurance when she first met Mark. Mark was a
construction worker and they met through mutual friends. They hit it
off and five years later they are married and have a beautiful daughter
named Stacy. She’s one and a half, loves Sesame Street, can’t get
enough applesauce, and giggles anytime you make a funny face.
Trisha took time off of her job to stay at home with Stacy while Mark
continued to work. The insurance company was kind enough to tell Trisha
that when she was ready to return, her job would still be there and
after about two years, she was ready to go back. Consequently, they
would have to take Stacy to a daycare.
There was a nice one that was in a perfect location right on the way to
Trisha’s work. She could drop Stacy off on her way there and pick her
up on her way home. She never thought about who she would be placing
her child’s care under until she was watching television the night
before she planned to return to work.
An employee at a daycare in a neighboring state had recently been
charged with drug dealing. She was making deals on her cell phone
during her lunch breaks. It wasn’t until then that Trisha did a
background check on the people who would be caring for her daughter.
Luckily for her, she found nothing wrong and took her daughter to the
daycare the next day.
The woman who managed the daycare with the drug dealing employee had
more problems though. After the story broke on the news, long time
customers began to go elsewhere, and she could not generate new
business because of the one bad employee she had hired. She had plenty
of well qualified workers but people only remembered the one bad one.
The woman dealing drugs seemed normal so the manager did no background
check when she hired her. If she had, she would have found a list of
arrests for various things including drugs in her file.
She didn’t take the time to do a background check on an employee and
now her business suffers dearly for it. One bad apple can ruin the whole
basket. Do a background check and make sure that bad apple gets
thrown in the trash. You can do this by following the link.

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