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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have had a nanny for about 4 months now.  She is warm and caring with our child (infant).  We went thru an agency and she had very good references.

The issue is she is pretty [b]unreliable/takes a lot of time off/sick days[/b].  Even though she started mid year, we gave her the full standard 2 weeks off and 5 sick days thru year end.  She’s used almost all of them already, is [b]consistently 15-30 mins late [/b](while I always take over the baby at least 15 mins early at the end of the day bc I know her day ends at our agreed end-time, she shouldn’t have to use her “off” time to gather her things and go to the bathroom before she leaves).  She’s had a [b]no call/no show one time[/b], and [b]other times she hasn’t shown up on time and only woke up because we texted asking where she was, and then she came in late[/b].

We pay $30/hour on the books guaranteed 45 hours a week (so 5 hours are time and a half).  For about 2 months, I was still on maternity leave so she only worked about 6-7 hours a day even though we paid her the guaranteed 45 each week.  [b]She does no cleaning, no bottle washing, no baby laundry[/b] - which is truly fine, I want her to focus on the baby.  [b]She leaves her own dirty dishes in the sink unwashed half the time.[/b]  Ok fine, I want her to focus on the baby. [b]I have no problem with her using her phone, having the tv on, whatever. [/b]

Sorry for the wall of text - I just wanted to paint the picture that we are (in my view) not demanding employers and pay a fair rate.  My spouse and I both work very busy jobs and have an older child we get back and forth to full day preschool (nanny is never responsible for more than one child at a time - spouse or I take off work on days older child might be home to tagteam childcare with nanny).

My question is - are my expectations about reliability/punctuality unreasonable?  Like I said at the beginning I do think she does a good job with the baby, and maybe that outweighs everything but if I keep having to take off more work bc my nanny isn’t here I’m not sure what the point of having one is, I could just stay home and watch the baby myself (which I don’t want to do but you get the point).

Thoughts?!?[/quote]

Any one of these would be a dealbreaker for me and together they are completely unacceptable.

I would not be ok with a nanny having the TV on and while occasional phone use would be ok, I would define "occasional" to mean "when necessary" (which would not include surfing the Internet or texting socially).

In my house she would be gone.[/quote]

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