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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don’t own these nannies.

If they want to make more money by babysitting your friends’ Kids, that’s none of your business.

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Except the nanny is not making more money by sitting the neighbors' kids, because the neighbor is not paying the nanny.  Get it?

The neighbor is not doing the nanny a favor, because the nanny gets stuck, deliberately and not incidentally, with more kids than the nanny signed up for.

OP, write a contract with the nanny - make sure you include language to protect this from happening.  You are the primary employer.

[b]No one is saying OP "owns" the nanny.  OP "owns" the time OP signed up for, and what the nanny agreed to with OP.[/b]

All of you users can stuff it, because the plausible deniability is not there, and the primary employer can make sure of that.

Sneaky and smart are two very, very, very different things.  I have no use for sneaky people, OP shouldn't either. [/quote]

Correct.   Except OP said her Dh was "really pissed" when they called the nanny to ask her to sit at A TIME THEY HAD NOT  PREVIOUSLY "SIGNED UP FOR" and nanny said she couldn't because she had agreed to sit for one of the neighbor families.  
OP and her husband seem to think that the nannies should always leave their mornings available on the off chance that OP and her husband want to schedule them.  That is not fair to the nannies.  If OP is not paying the nanny to keep her morning clear, she has every right to book another sitting job.  [/quote]

Right.  SO, OP should book any time that she thinks she will need.  That alone gives the entitled neighbor the Heisman. [/quote]

Which isn’t going to happen with these nannies.  OP already said she tried to guarantee hours every morning, but the nannies want flexibility.

I’d recommend an AP or live-in nanny.  Nobody else can afford to work 20 hours per week AND guarantee flexibility.[/quote]

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