On the clock, with nothing to do. Until there is something to do

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I honestly don’t know what you want to hear. Surely you know it’s draconian to expect her to sit in your house waiting for your beckon call. You seem to resent guaranteed hours, but you also surely know you can’t get a good nanny without them.

Actually, she is being paid to sit and wait as she is paid hourly. If she goes somewhere, she should let OP know and not charge her for the time.

I'd reduce the hours or increase the duties AND if it is your car put a tracker on it.

Clearly, she isn’t being paid to “sit and wait.”

She is paid to be available.

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Anonymous wrote:You're unreasonable demands are going to cost you a good nanny.

Expecting the nanny to be available and not an hour away with the car isn't unreasonable. Expecting her to sit at home might be, she can run out to short errands, but to be somewhere that far away while on the clock? No.

[Anonymous]

Get an Au pair, so much cheaper without the entitlement!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You're unreasonable demands are going to cost you a good nanny.

Expecting the nanny to be available and not an hour away with the car isn't unreasonable. Expecting her to sit at home might be, she can run out to short errands, but to be somewhere that far away while on the clock? No.

She wasn’t an hour away, or she would have been late to pick up. There was an hour before pick up. She could have been 15-30 minutes out and in the middle of something. If she didn’t think she had enough time to finish, get back, do whatever task OP wanted done and then get to pick up?

Btdt. I can do whatever I want while kids are in school. I stay within 30 minutes of their school, NOT the house. If I need to respond to an emergency at school, I’m there within 30 minutes. Otherwise?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get an Au pair, so much cheaper without the entitlement!

You’ve clearly never met our last ay pair.

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Anonymous wrote:Get an Au pair, so much cheaper without the entitlement!

You’ve clearly never met our last ay pair.

So all Au pairs are supposed to be all the same?? I guess nannies are the same as well?