Want to meet people, try charging them for it?

Re:Want to meet people, try charging them for it? by gizzlon on Monday June 30, 2025 @08:55AM (#44422687)

Did they get fewer late pickups? Or do they just make more money?

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Re:Want to meet people, try charging them for it? by bell-cot on Monday June 30, 2025 @10:26AM (#44423742)

Any reason to think their baseline is making money? The arithmetic of daycare - market-minimum hourly pay for the workers, vs. legal minimum per-child staffing levels, vs. tight parental budgets - is damned ruthless.

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Re:Want to meet people, try charging them for it? by johnnyanmac on Monday June 30, 2025 @01:30PM (#44425859)

Yeah I'm not sure if $2/minute even covers the potential overtime of a caretaker needing to stay later.

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Re:Want to meet people, try charging them for it? by bell-cot on Monday June 30, 2025 @02:21PM (#44426319)

Unless it's some "Mrs. Smith's In-home Childcare" deal, it ain't a carer staying late at $2/minute - it's randomly keeping a business open, at $120/hour. With (good bet) a mandated-minimum staff of 2+. At SF wages. Plus the extra staff churn that randomly having to stay late causes.

Parents wanting ever-so-forgiving cheap daycare need to move an idle grandma into town.

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