So sick of parents who don't value my time.

[Anonymous]

Most parents don't know what they're doing. That's all.

[Anonymous]

Wow! I hate families who conduct themselves like this, I truly understand the way you are feeling but now you know how to handle a situation like this in the future. Any time, the family ask for a working interview, if it is longer than one hour request that she pay you whatever your regular rate is so if you don't get the job you got paid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She was there the whole time, minus 25 minutes, and it was an interview to see how you would do the job, why would you be paid? I just don't understand.

I have interviewed for jobs before that took a long time, I toured buildings and met staff, and I even had to do a trial speaking to a group. Never got paid. You played with a child while mom was there, what do you really expect???

Hourly workers are paid for their time. They are paid for training and "working" interviews. It doesn't matter if the mom was there, she used reserved and used OPs time and should pay for it.

You dodged a bullet OP. This woman would have been a TERRIBLE employer.

Show me a single hourly worker who got paid for their McDonalds interview.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Wow! I hate families who conduct themselves like this, I truly understand the way you are feeling but now you know how to handle a situation like this in the future. Any time, the family ask for a working interview, if it is longer than one hour request that she pay you whatever your regular rate is so if you don't get the job you got paid.

This is good advice. Good nannies should NOT allow themselves to abused, or the abuse just keeps getting worse.

The abuse of nannies needs to stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She was there the whole time, minus 25 minutes, and it was an interview to see how you would do the job, why would you be paid? I just don't understand.

I have interviewed for jobs before that took a long time, I toured buildings and met staff, and I even had to do a trial speaking to a group. Never got paid. You played with a child while mom was there, what do you really expect???

Hourly workers are paid for their time. They are paid for training and "working" interviews. It doesn't matter if the mom was there, she used reserved and used OPs time and should pay for it.

You dodged a bullet OP. This woman would have been a TERRIBLE employer.

Show me a single hourly worker who got paid for their McDonalds interview.

OP was talking about a working interview. I spent 22 years in the restaurant industry. A working interview would translate to an orientation, and we always got paid for those. You generally get paid for any time you put in that's not sitting in a chair, interviewing.

[Anonymous]

For my last job I attended a three day retreat, did not expect to be paid for it. That said I do pay nannies who spend time interacting with my child for more than a few minutes, as part of the selection process, but that is because being a nanny is not a professional position.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For my last job I attended a three day retreat, did not expect to be paid for it. That said I do pay nannies who spend time interacting with my child for more than a few minutes, as part of the selection process, but that is because being a nanny is not a professional position.

Go away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For my last job I attended a three day retreat, did not expect to be paid for it. That said I do pay nannies who spend time interacting with my child for more than a few minutes, as part of the selection process, but that is because being a nanny is not a professional position.

Yes, being a nanny is not a professional position - not like being a professional model or professional golfer (those are the big professions that take years of education and licensing). Nannies only care for your children - no big deal. I hand my baby over to anyone. Who cares?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For my last job I attended a three day retreat, did not expect to be paid for it. That said I do pay nannies who spend time interacting with my child for more than a few minutes, as part of the selection process, but that is because being a nanny is not a professional position.

Yes, being a nanny is not a professional position - not like being a professional model or professional golfer (those are the big professions that take years of education and licensing). Nannies only care for your children - no big deal. I hand my baby over to anyone. Who cares?

Would you two above posters please define "professional" as you see it? Or are you just one sock-puppet poster?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For my last job I attended a three day retreat, did not expect to be paid for it. That said I do pay nannies who spend time interacting with my child for more than a few minutes, as part of the selection process, but that is because being a nanny is not a professional position.

Yes, being a nanny is not a professional position - not like being a professional model or professional golfer (those are the big professions that take years of education and licensing). Nannies only care for your children - no big deal. I hand my baby over to anyone. Who cares?

Would you two above posters please define "professional" as you see it? Or are you just one sock-puppet poster?

Sorry, didn't mean it in an insulting way, just that a nanny is not a profession in the sense of being a salaries employee. Was agreeing that this means nannies should be paid for extended interview time, so not clear why you seem upset!