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[quote=Anonymous]I think a lot of people are missing the point about flexibility being normal for a lot of people.  The point is not that your job expects you at 9 and you have the flexibility to be 10 minutes late.  It is that many jobs expect people to arrive within a window of acceptability.  So anywhere between 8:45-9:15 is normal.  And that is true for many jobs.  Of course there are jobs where someone is just manning the fort—answering a phone or opening a shop on time.

Honestly it reminds me of an account I read somewhere of a guy who had his first job as a teen washing dishes at a restaurant.  He worked alongside a bunch of friends.  After a few nights of getting into a routine, he and his buddies decided to knuckle down and change the work flow so they could be done a little early.  The dishes were cleaned, dried and put away and the kitchen was sparkling clean and they proudly showed their manager their work and asked to kick off a little early.  Manager hit the roof and screamed that they “belonged” to him until the end of their shift, then dumped trash on the floor for them to clean.  After that they did a mediocre job at a glacial pace because they had learned they were paid for their time, not for success completing a task.

The point is that you have to figure out whether your job is one where your nanny is completing a task (“You have to be here in time to get the kids logged on for school”) or one where she is manning the fort (“I need you here at 9am sharp so that 18-month-old is supervised and I can log on to work.”)

If the latter, explain why you need her on time and expect her to figure it out.

If the latter, let it slide as part of the overall relationship.[/quote]

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