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[quote=Anonymous]Do not take on the nightmare of an au pair for these simple tasks that you can find someone else to do! We had a neighbors au pair from Austria (so should be a great driver) back up on to the hood of our car and then lie and deny it, even though she knew her boss and our house had rings. It was about $6k in damage bc she backed up hard and then kept going - a Tahoe on a Porsche. 
We stupidly decided to get an au pair and before we fired her, some of the issues were not waking up to take the youngest to preschool, so she missed her entire half day program, forgetting to pick up kids multiple times, driving the wrong way on a one way street, etc. I constantly had to ask her to please at least put her own dirty dishes in the sink. She constantly used the cc i have her for things for the kids (entry fee at a weekly lesson, etc) for personal things including Ubers at 4am on work nights. She was incapable of cleaning up any mess she made. Our cleaning person finally asked if she could skip her room bc it was so disgusting, and this was a new room in a new build, so no one had ever used the room or furniture before. It was terrible! 
Imagine hiring someone and then having it hang over you every day while you were working bc you had zero confidence that your children would actually be dropped off or picked up. 
Dont even get me started on how hard it was to fire her. The Au Pair company pushed back at every complaint we had and basically led us on until we got past the point where we could have rematched without paying the approx $8k in initial fees. It also turned out that she didn’t actually have any of the childcare experience the au pair company claimed she did. We pushed them on this to try to get some of our placement fee back but there were so many disclaimers and protections for them in the contract that it would have gone nowhere. I wouldn’t get another au pair for anything. [/quote]

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