Nanny told me she isnt coming on time

[Anonymous]

Your nanny is in the wrong, OP. It is her job to arrive at her start time. The fact that she texted this morning is a clue that she was hoping for a paid day off for the weather. Seeing that her start time is well after the morning rush and in plenty of time for roads to be clear, she is just being lazy.

[Anonymous]

If you need her at 12:30pm onward that is all, she needs to know. Doesn't matter if your driving a kid to preschool then, grocery shopping or on a conf call.
So she has a different job in the morning? Is that interfering? Is lunch interfering? Is the bus schedule or subway interfering?

When she originally interviewed did you both agree to 1pm? Maybe she went and over planned her day jobs then. Just find out the real reason she can't consistently get to your house by 12:30pm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Excuse me? I'm appalled. My nanny first text me this morning to see if I was off, I work from home so unless it's impossible to get here or the Internet is out then I'm working. She's supposed to show up at 12:30pm. Her text around 8am was that she was going to come at 1pm (her usual start time however this month we agreed she would start at 12:30pm). Although it isn't a huge inconvenience because I don't actually start until 1:30 I just got a bad vibe from her text. Her reasoning was because she's not sure how bad the roads are. I understand wanting to be safe, etc but my thoughts are that you need to plan accordingly to be to work at your scheduled time. I feel as though she thinks because im not actually working she can show up at her desired time. Apart from a previous last minute call out over something she could of gave us notice to, she is a great nanny. Am I overreacting? I did want to run a few quick errands.

Stop assigning her motives. Tell her what you expect and, if you worry she's going to be a flake, hire someone else.

+1

It will never do you any good with anyone to try and assign them negative motives, just communicate with her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you need her at 12:30pm onward that is all, she needs to know. Doesn't matter if your driving a kid to preschool then, grocery shopping or on a conf call.
So she has a different job in the morning? Is that interfering? Is lunch interfering? Is the bus schedule or subway interfering?

When she originally interviewed did you both agree to 1pm? Maybe she went and over planned her day jobs then. Just find out the real reason she can't consistently get to your house by 12:30pm.

OP never said this is a chronic issue. She said this happened because of the snow.
It seems (to me) that the nanny is trying to give herself some extra time to arrive safely at work due to the snow.