Walking in rain with baby

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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.

That's an option, but OP's employers sound a bit low-class and poor. This is a lesson for OP not to work for poor employers and to work out various scenarios before accepting a job.

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Everyone thought it was ridiculous to make the nanny do this until they found out the OP was the nanny...

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OP, you're not going to get a fair answer here because post posters are poor but imagine themselves as rich therefore terrible nany employers. Yes, it's unreasonable for them to expect you to walk in a thunderstorm to get the kids. You should have gotten an Uber, charged it to your employers, gotten the kids home and resigned at the end of your shift. These are not people you want to work for. In the future, only look at families that go through reputable agencies with clearly defined roles, responsibilities in your contract and contingencies for a variety of situations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone thought it was ridiculous to make the nanny do this until they found out the OP was the nanny...

That’s not true, people were mostly asking for clarification on whether or not the parents were home/available. The answer was no.

[Anonymous]

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.

Don't forget the kids that are being picked up also have to walk in the pouring rain with no umbrellas. Agree with PPs that these parents sound low class. Especially since she yelled and swore at the nanny.

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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.

If you've gotta pick up the kid, you've gotta pick up the kid.

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How did no one (mom, dad, nanny) foresee this very foreseeable issue? This won’t be the last bad weather day.

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If you are a nanny, and your regular duties are to walk the baby to pick up the big kids from school every day, that's what you're paid for and that's what you do, then yes, you have to do it in the rain! Lessoned learned that you need to make sure you check the weather and bring a big raincoat and rain boots when rain is predicted. It's part of your job and sometimes it rains!

For what it's worth, I live in the city and I have three children and no car. I walk the baby to pick up the big kids from school every day, and guess what? Sometimes it's raining. You're not the wicked witch, you won't melt.

If you called me, your employer, to tell me you couldn't do your job because it was raining outside and you might get wet (!?!), and I needed to interrupt my workday to come and do your job for you, yeah, you'd be fired.



Now, that being said, if it's more of a "once in a while I may ask you to get the big kids from school" and they ask today, it's pretty reasonable to say "Oh, it's raining pretty hard and I didn't bring my raincoat" and see what they say. But if it's a standard duty of yours, that's on you.

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OP- how do you think those of us who dont have nannies pick up our kids when its raining, cloudy, snowing, too hot, etc? You are being paid as a stand in for the parents to care for their children, which from your descriptions includes picking up the older children from school. Figure. it. out.

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The only weird part to me is the no umbrellas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you're not going to get a fair answer here because post posters are poor but imagine themselves as rich therefore terrible nany employers. Yes, it's unreasonable for them to expect you to walk in a thunderstorm to get the kids. You should have gotten an Uber, charged it to your employers, gotten the kids home and resigned at the end of your shift. These are not people you want to work for. In the future, only look at families that go through reputable agencies with clearly defined roles, responsibilities in your contract and contingencies for a variety of situations.

I very rarely side with an employer over a nanny, but I have a hard time seeing it as unreasonable to expect a nanny to pick up the kids from school in conditions that I and many other parents near me deal with when needed. If the school age children can handle it, of course the nanny can.

[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.

Is there a spare car seat in the house and has the nanny been trained in installing it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Is there a spare car seat in the house and has the nanny been trained in installing it?

Oh, and boosters for the older kids!

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I think, if there are some extenuating circumstances that one of the parents can't let the nanny use the car or can't do it themselves, then yes, if the stroller is covered and the nanny has adequate rain gear. But in general, no. If it's light rain, sure, but not pouring down rain.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you're not going to get a fair answer here because post posters are poor but imagine themselves as rich therefore terrible nany employers. Yes, it's unreasonable for them to expect you to walk in a thunderstorm to get the kids. You should have gotten an Uber, charged it to your employers, gotten the kids home and resigned at the end of your shift. These are not people you want to work for. In the future, only look at families that go through reputable agencies with clearly defined roles, responsibilities in your contract and contingencies for a variety of situations.

I very rarely side with an employer over a nanny, but I have a hard time seeing it as unreasonable to expect a nanny to pick up the kids from school in conditions that I and many other parents near me deal with when needed. If the school age children can handle it, of course the nanny can.

you regularly walk in thunderstorms to pick up your kids?