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[quote=Anonymous]Our nanny has increasingly needed schedule adjustments lately and it's starting to be a strain on my husbands and my careers.  Some of her asks are totally legit - death in extended family etc - and some much more optional (her sister is a hair stylist and will do her color for free but only if she comes at a certain time, she wants to beat traffic for a weekend get away).  I think she also may be starting fertility treatments as she's needed to come late several mornings for blood work.

All of this results in some sort of schedule adjustment needed about every other week or so.  She's a great nanny overall so I want to keep her but I'm tired of double paying her for her guaranteed hours plus finding back-up care when needed or having to work late into the evening myself bc I had to stop work early that day to take over for her.

Is it fair to say that of course we can accommodate medical stuff and important events like weddings but given the volume we can't accommodate more optional things like hair appointments and beating traffic? She has a set number of PTO days which she uses for full days off and we've ignored the random hours off too....how do I now have the conversation to reset the expectation that those won't be  paid (she doesn't make up the hours elsewhere....if we do a rare datenight or something she expects to be paid extra that week)?

I've always just given it to her but the recent increase in volume in asks is unsustainable without getting more stable backup care in place which is costly.  I definitely don't want to fire her and I want to be a reasonable employer but my husband and I both have professions that don't give us a lot of flexibility to just skip meetings etc during standard work hours.  I feel like all of our flexibility is going to meet her needs and absolutely none of it goes to meeting our own.[/quote]

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