Walking in rain with baby

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]Is it ok for a parent to ask a nanny to walk in pouring rain to pick kids up with a baby? Both parents drive.[/quote]

No. If you want baby walked in rain the you do it but you have no right to ask, or expect, the nanny wants to get drenched. You are insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTF, would the parent do this themselves? Of course not.

And what if it started lightening?

Uhh yes I did this all the time as a parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WTF, would the parent do this themselves? Of course not.

And what if it started lightening?

Uhh yes I did this all the time as a parent.

You walked in lightening all the time with your baby. Interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WTF, would the parent do this themselves? Of course not.

And what if it started lightening?

Uhh yes I did this all the time as a parent.

You walked in lightening all the time with your baby. Interesting.

The word is lightning.

[Anonymous]

You are a nanny who doesn’t drive and you made the parent leave work to do school pickup? Respectfully— what do you think your job is? Why do you think they hired a nanny if they need to do school pickup themselves? And if you don’t drive, how were you getting yourself home in all this dangerous rain that you couldn’t walk in to do school pickup?

You should lose your job, but, before you take a next one, consider how you are going to do it in common weather conditions.

[Anonymous]

I’m enlightened by lightening

[Anonymous]

I absolutely would and did walk in the rain with my own baby and kids, but I wouldn't ask someone in my employment to do it, especially while picking up kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I absolutely would and did walk in the rain with my own baby and kids, but I wouldn't ask someone in my employment to do it, especially while picking up kids.

What would be your alternative?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I absolutely would and did walk in the rain with my own baby and kids, but I wouldn't ask someone in my employment to do it, especially while picking up kids.

What would be your alternative?

It depends on the situation. The OP started with "both parents drive". Does that mean one or both parents is available to do pickup? Is a parent around to be able to watch the baby while nanny does pickup?

If there really is no way for the nanny to drive or get anywhere except by walking, dies the setup need to be reimagined. What if one of the kids gets sick at school or needs to go to urgent care, what's the plan with the nanny? What if it was thunder and lightning during pickup time, or conditions were icy during the winter. Think out these situations before they arise.

I haven't employed a nanny but I did work out driving and contingency situations with our babysitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I absolutely would and did walk in the rain with my own baby and kids, but I wouldn't ask someone in my employment to do it, especially while picking up kids.

What would be your alternative?

NP. There’s this thing called Uber, you might have heard of it? She could have gotten one for the nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I absolutely would and did walk in the rain with my own baby and kids, but I wouldn't ask someone in my employment to do it, especially while picking up kids.

What would be your alternative?

NP. There’s this thing called Uber, you might have heard of it? She could have gotten one for the nanny.

There. An alternative that nanny and employer could use (w/o the snark) in these circumstances.

But, yes, school pick up is part of the job, OP. You need to think this through.

[Anonymous]

You’re a selfish monster OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would hate you as my employer if you were home and able to drive to pick kids up in the pouring rain but made me and your baby walk.

The circumstances matter. Do you or spouse wfh and it would be logistically possible to do the rainy day pickup? Or are you and spouse working in office and it would mean leaving work to do so? If my bosses were at home and sent me and baby out in pouring rain when it was a short drive they could easily do, I would be eventually looking for a new job because people who are that inconsiderate would be awful in other ways.

If the parents are not working at the home, it would stink, but I would just suck it up.

+1 are the parents home? We need details, op.

So the dad is a teacher and the mom works a mile away from the kids school I’ll have to walk a mile as well to get the kids. They don’t have umbrellas in the house just a covering for the stroller. I don’t mind walking in a drizzle but pouring down rain and thunder she asked me to do today and said her previous nannies did it. She said “use stroller cover in baby but of course you’ll get wet but you’ll be fine.” I declined because it was thundering and pouring so she eventually went to get them. She got home and I asked to have a conversation with her she immediately started yelling saying “she can’t do this right now” I just wanted to make sure there was no friction because I declined. I asked her to stop yelling at me she said “ I don’t care about this conversation I have shit to do the kids are home leave see you tomorrow.” I left but was so confused as to wth just happened.

Here are my two cents. Your job includes picking up the kids. Weather happens and so you’ll have to figure that out whether it’s sunny, hot, snowing, or raining with lightning.

I mistakenly believed both parents were home and able to drive from your OP but it sounds like both parents were at work. So when you declined to pick up their child it was incredibly unprofessional and stressful for the parents. It doesn’t matter if they drive or how far they work from the school if they are working.

There may be times when the parents might volunteer to pick up their kids in inclement weather and for that I would consider it a courtesy and a bonus. But you declining sounds like the problem is on you.

[Anonymous]

In Finland this is normal. Americans are so oddz

[Anonymous]

We also always had a driver/car for our nanny and children too. Sounds like the parents who employee the nanny are in the wrong.