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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would hate you as my employer if you were home and able to drive to pick kids up in the pouring rain but made me and your baby walk.

The circumstances matter. Do you or spouse wfh and it would be logistically possible to do the rainy day pickup? Or are you and spouse working in office and it would mean leaving work to do so? If my bosses were at home and sent me and baby out in pouring rain when it was a short drive they could easily do, I would be eventually looking for a new job because people who are that inconsiderate would be awful in other ways.

If the parents are not working at the home, it would stink, but I would just suck it up. [/quote]

+1 are the parents home?  We need details, op.[/quote]

So the dad is a teacher and the mom works a mile away from the kids school I’ll have to walk a mile as well to get the kids. They don’t have umbrellas in the house just a covering for the stroller. I don’t mind walking in a drizzle but pouring down rain and thunder she asked me to do today and said her previous nannies did it. She said “use stroller cover in baby but of course you’ll get wet but you’ll be fine.” I declined because it was thundering and pouring so she eventually went to get them. She got home and I asked to have a conversation with her she immediately started yelling saying “she can’t do this right now” I just wanted to make sure there was no friction because I declined. I asked her to stop yelling at me she said “ I don’t care about this conversation I have shit to do the kids are home leave see you tomorrow.” I left but was so confused as to wth just happened.[/quote]

Here are my two cents. Your job includes picking up the kids. Weather happens and so you’ll have to figure that out whether it’s sunny, hot, snowing, or raining with lightning.

I mistakenly believed both parents were home and able to drive from your OP but it sounds like both parents were at work. So when you declined to pick up their child it was incredibly unprofessional and stressful for the parents. It doesn’t matter if they drive or how far they work from the school if they are working.

There may be times when the parents might volunteer to pick up their kids in inclement weather and for that I would consider it a courtesy and a bonus. But you declining sounds like the problem is on you.

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