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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like you need a housekeeper OP, not an aide.[/quote]
for just asking the question? thanks for the input[/quote]

Ask better questions if you want better answers- the tasks you listed are housekeeper duties.[/quote]

So an aide hired to care after my mother shouldn't be expected to change sheets?

I wouln't hire an aide that didn't do the patient's laundry or meal making.

Reminds me of a nanny our neighbors had some years back. Nanny worked from 7-5, M-F with twin toddlers that still napped 2 hours a day. When we asked them what the nanny did during those two hours they said they didn't know. Others with nannys explained that theirs did all the kid laundry, cleaned the kid room, emptied diaper pale and prepped the next day's lunch they looked at us with huge eyes. Theirs did none of that and was getting $5000 a month cash.

She got fired about a month later after they found a replacement.[/quote]

7-5 is ten hours!   With twin toddlers!   The nanny deserved a mid-day break to eat lunch and decompress[/quote]

Meh, five grand in cash each month is equivalent to a salary of $90,000 a year. Unless the nanny was reporting the income (highly unlikley given most don't want to pay taxes and many are here illegally) she was getting a damn good deal. Plenty and plenty of legal citizens work 60 hours a week and come nowhere near making 90 grand.[/quote]

Wow, caring for twin toddlers 50Hrs/wk is a ton of work.
The Nanny is 💯% entitled to a break during the day.
The children may not always nap for two hrs a day.
They may have days where they will not feel well or perhaps a loud noise or bad dream may awaken them.

Plus as everyone knows in time they will outgrow their need for a daily naptime.

Parents should not expect to stretch their dollar when it comes to expectations of the caregiver who is providing for their children.
Just because someone is “on-the-clock” does not mean they need to be actively working/moving the entire time.

Do Firefighters only get paid when there is a fire?
Or how about a security officer when someone robs a bank….?[/quote]

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