I need advice on quitting a nanny job

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03/05/2013 14:04

Subject: I need advice on quitting a nanny job

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Hannahrg33

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I work for a teacher. When I started I was supposed to watch a 6 month old and a 3 year old (they're now 1 year and 4 years old) Monday- Friday 7:00-4:30 for $250.00 a week... Then the mom started getting home late. Before long, she was an hour to two hours late almost every day, and I never got paid extra. Then, they wanted me to start getting to their house at 5:00 a.m. because the dads work schedule had changed, they increased my pay to $300.00 a week. This was supposed to last 2 months at the most and it's been 6 months... I get to work at 5:00, and she usually doesn't get home till at least 5:45, sometimes she gets home after 6:00! I talked to her about it a few months ago and for a few weeks she was getting back at 4:00 or 4:30 like she was originally supposed to... But now she's regularly getting back late again. I don't see the point in discussing it any more.

There's been days I've gotten to work and was locked out for 15 minutes until they got out of bed. I have to wake up their 5 kids, get the oldest three fed and ready for school, I homeschool the 4 year old that I watch all day, and I feed them all and help with homework when they get home since the mom is never home on time... When the kids have been on breaks from school, I'll have all 5 kids for 12-13 hours a day... and still only get paid $300.00 a week? The house is DISGUSTING. I've given up on cleaning it, I've cleaned before and by the next day its a wreck again... I was never even told thank you for cleaning, let alone get paid for it. It literally looks like a house from that Hoarders show!

Yesterday I was watching the 1 year old, a 3 year old, and their 5 year old when two toilets overflowed, three rooms were flooded, and the mom wanted me to clean it up... The floors were covered in toys and soggy clothes and trash since they never clean. I used every towel in their house to clean it up, they had 4 clean clean towels so I had to get almost 15 towels from the dirty clothes to soak up the water. It smelled disgusting... And once again, I wasn't told thank you, instead, she blamed me saying that one of the kids must have put something in the toilet and I should watch them closer. I asked one of the older kids, and the toilet had been clogged the night before already! Today when I got to work, all of the towels were on the floor still soaked and stinking, and she asked me to get them washed.

I quit my previous job to work for them and I can't stand it anymore! I almost drove away today... She's neglectful, the kids never get bathed on the weekends, the house is always nasty, their oldest child is failing school, their 5 year old has the worst behavior I've ever seen... And she's pregnant with her 6th kid! I get paid Friday, I'm tempted to just quit then. Would it be understandable if I told them I'm not coming back then? This family has canceled on me several times at the last minute, I've gotten to work at 5:00 a.m. and they've sent me home because they didn't need me... And they'll tell me they won't need me, and then call in the morning and want me there in 5 minutes! I don't get paid when they don't need me. Part of me kinda wants to inconvenience them, just not show up without a word andmake them realize what they've put me through for the past 6 months! I'm too nice though and can't make myself do that... She gets off work for spring break soon, should I give her a notice that I'm leaving now, or should I wait till my last paycheck before the break and tell her then? I don't really want to give her much notice because she's gonna freak out and I don't want to deal with her, plus I wouldn't put it past her to just not pay me if she knows I'm quitting.
There's all kinds of crap I could write, but this is already too long lol I love the kids, but I've had enough!

What's the worst situation you've been in as a nanny? How did you handle it?

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