Babysitter (not a nanny) doesn’t do her dinner dishes.
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Anonymous
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Normal? Our date night babysitter puts her drinking glasses and used plates in the sink. We have one baby who is asleep when the babysitter gets there and we pay for the sitter to Postmates her dinner. The kitchen is clean when she gets here. The baby hasn’t woken up once in the three times she’s sat for us.
Is this what they all do? |
Anonymous
| Is she a teenager? She probably thinks she's being polite and not messing with your belongings unnecessarily. |
Anonymous
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As someone who did a lot of teenage babysitting, figuring out whether the dishwasher was clean or dirty, or where to put the dishes when they're drying, was really confusing. I was an anxious enough kid that I just didn't eat because it was too stressful.
Can you say "the dishwasher is dirty, please add your dishes when you're done" or something? |
Anonymous
| When we first started using our regular babysitter (she was a 19 year old college student), she didn’t know how to clean up after herself in the kitchen. We just viewed it as an opportunity for on the job learning. We were really explicit about what asked her to do after a meal and she learned pretty quickly. Just show your sitter the soap/sponge/towel and tell her where to put her dry dishes when she’s done. |
Anonymous
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Normal.
She doesn't know what goes in the dw at your house and what doesn't, whether it's clean or dirty, how you load it... Just ask her to put her dirty dishes in the dishwasher. She will. |
Anonymous
OP here. She’s 25 and an RN. The dish drainer and dish soap are right there if she doesn’t feel comfortable putting them in the dishwasher. Clearly, this is annoying me! |
Anonymous
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Is this what we’ve come to? Adults can’t figure out how to tell someone to kindly put their dishes in a dishwasher? You seriously need to crowd source this?
Damn. |
Anonymous
| That would match my expectation for a sitter. Dirty dishes in the sink is fine. I would prefer to load them into the dishwasher myself. If you have a different expectation, you should make that clear. But I think what she did was perfectly reasonable. |
Anonymous
This is a “you” problem. |
Anonymous
Damn. Why should adults have to tell other employed adults how to wash a dish. |
Anonymous
| Normal. It’s so annoying, but not worth saying something over imo. |
Anonymous
So this is what all babysitters do? |
Anonymous
Because everyone wants it done differently. And because employers tell their employees what to do. It's how the whole employment thing works. |
Anonymous
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OP, I'm a control freak/OCD/clean freak and if this babysitter works for you otherwise (and being able to have a babysitter that you are comfortable with trumps all, imo) then let the dishes go. Seriously.
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Anonymous
| THe fact that a 25 yr old RN can't figure out how to clean up after herself worries me more. Is this who you want taking care of you? Eek. |