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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread has really made me feel good about my decision to take a few years off when my DD was born. Employing a professional nanny, who works in your home and cares fir your children, is just an extremely fraught situation. Very few people have the temperament for it. And a lot of people stretch for the nanny instead of daycare (especially during Covid) but then want to nickel and dime the arrangement.

I fully agree with the long post from the nanny up thread and I think it’s funny how many of you are disagreeing. This is just the situation. If you don’t like it, your options are daycare or a SAHP, both of which come with their own drawbacks. People who whine about stuff like this are so entitled— sorry you can’t treat your nanny like Home Depot treats it’s cashiers? Sorry you e arranged your life to be 100% reliant in this person and she expects to be compensated accordingly?

This is very much a situation where you have paid someone else to make your bed and now you have to lie in it.[/quote]

I’m an emergency room physician who is hourly - you’re the ridiculous one to just think hourly = cashier.  I get paid for the hours I work, and don’t get paid for hours I don’t work by choice (eg refusing to come in when a safe way has been provided).   I much prefer to be hourly so I can keep fix the hours I agree to work vs be worked to the bone like some salaried people. But no I would never expect to be paid for my time if I declined to for in and help care for your mom with covid [/quote]

I addressed this already, but again, if you take time off, your shift can be filled by anyone else qualified to do your job.  There are not emotional and logistical reasons that you and only you can care for my hypothetical sick mom.  My point is that the difference between “our usual ER physician” and “a fill-in ER physician” is smaller than “our nanny” and “someone else’s nanny who can fill in today.”

The specific nature of the job means that knowing things like the nap routine for the baby, how to log in to online school, the exact little dance your potty-training toddler does when he is about to pee his pants, what foods they will eat, etc., are really individual and personal to any given family.  So if someone fills in the care that the day will be different than it would with the regular nanny in ways that impact the employer.  Maybe small things like hungry, overtired kids or missing an online class or assignment or fielding a call about where to find XYZ mid-meeting, but still inconvenient.  The more lead time you have to plan a nanny’s day off, the better you can arrange to either take time off yourself or to have the nanny train her replacement.  If we treated nannies like typical hourly employees with limited or no PTO and nannies just turned down a shift if they didn’t want to work that day, families would end up being inconvenienced.  The way to avoid that is to offer PTO in the contract but require a certain amount of notice.

At the end of the day, though it comes down to this: the market will bear what the market will bear.  If you resent having to pay for PTO for your nanny, try to renegotiate the contract.  If you do, you may end up needing to hire a different nanny.  Since we are so interchangeable, that should be nbd, right?[/quote]

I don’t know why you think you’re less replaceable than doctor or an electrician, plumber, etc. my kids have been very happy with temp care or a new babysitter. In fact sometimes they are even happier with someone new! Your premise is flawed. [/quote]

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