Babysitter etiquette -- do you pay for an uber?
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Anonymous
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Do you generally take care of your sitter's transportation home? We have a new college-age sitter and I was torn between letting her take care of it herself and invading her privacy by plugging her address into my phone (although I assume she lives in dorms). Trip was at 11pm on Saturday night.
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Anonymous
| At that late, I think it’s polite but I wouldn’t have expected it as a college age sitter. My charges’ dad would drive me the half a mile to my dorm because his wife would worry (in a very safe area), it was a sweet gesture. |
Anonymous
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I'd either pay or drive her home .
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Anonymous
This. |
Anonymous
| I would pay. |
Anonymous
| No, and I don’t use babysitters who don’t drive because of this. When I get home I don’t want to sit around chit chatting while you wait for an uber. |
Anonymous
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No. Isn't she old enough to drive? How did she get there?
Transportation to/from work is something she shoudl be figuring out on her own. |
Anonymous
| I feel like when someone takes a job, it's assumed they can get themselves there and home unless otherwise specified beforehand. |
Anonymous
+1 although I would not have a problem driving a teen home. |
Anonymous
You act like nobody provides transportation for workers. Babysitters generally get a ride or can walk (andcc GC stecwalked home if it is late). |
Anonymous
| If it’s a college student, I’d treat it the same as if the sitter were a teen. It is not unusual for a college student to be without a car. Either offer pick-up/drop-off or pay for Uber. |
Anonymous
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I absolutely always offer it after 9 pm. And I always insists after 10 pm.
We live in DC and I wouldn’t ask a sitter to walk to a metro stop alone at night. |
Anonymous
| Yes. Pay for Uber or drive them home. |
Anonymous
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OP here -- she got an uber & paid for it herself. If she had said she was taking the bus/train, I might have pushed more.
I'm not driving her home because (a) I don't own a car and (b) I'd had a couple of cocktails. Maybe next time I'll chip in a few bucks more to cover her uber. That way I'm not putting her address in my phone. I was actually also thinking about it as a way to make sure she got home safely, but that might be overdoing it. She's a freshman in college, which seems very young to me but clearly it ... isn't. 
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Anonymous
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“No, and I don’t use babysitters who don’t drive because of this. When I get home I don’t want to sit around chit chatting while you wait for an uber.”
+1 |