Babysitting and parking

[Anonymous]

Question

If you take a babysitting job and learn afterwards that you will have to pay to park. Say in a lot or parking garage (about 1/2 mile away)
Do you suck it up pay the fee or ask the parents to pay that fee.
Parents do you expect babysitters to pay a parking fee or do you pay it.

[Anonymous]

It depends on how much you charge for your sitting, OP.

[Anonymous]

Are you seriously asking this question-why bother babysitting if you have to pay to park? Makes no sense!

[Anonymous]

It should be discussed prior to babysitting.

[Anonymous]

Why can't you park on the street?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It should be discussed prior to babysitting.

I agree. I've turned down jobs for this reason before.

[Anonymous]

They live in an apartment. Very little street parking. There are no guest spaces. If you can find parking on the street you're gold. All other streets are metered for two hours. The parking garage is a few blocks away and cost $6 (but you have to leave the car there. Take it out and reenter yoy have to pay again).

I had only spoken to them on the phone as it was a last minute emergency thing they needed. I charge $15 for babysitting

[Anonymous]

A 1/2 mile walk at night to get back your car? What a pain in the ass! It's worth asking, some of these garages (like in Chevy Chase) are very expensive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They live in an apartment. Very little street parking. There are no guest spaces. If you can find parking on the street you're gold. All other streets are metered for two hours. The parking garage is a few blocks away and cost $6 (but you have to leave the car there. Take it out and reenter yoy have to pay again).

I had only spoken to them on the phone as it was a last minute emergency thing they needed. I charge $15 for babysitting

$6 an hour or all together? Ask for it, they might say no but it's worth a try

[Anonymous]

Can you park in their spot?

[Anonymous]

Ask the family where you should park. They will likely have a solution.

[Anonymous]

This is an issue at my job where I nanny at. usually when I get there in the morning I park (illegally) for 2 mins with the hazards on until MB leaves and then I follow her out and take her spot.

OR, I park a block away and do the same once MB leaves and still take her (resident) parking spot).

We are very good about getting in and out.

[Anonymous]

It is not customary for an employer to pay an employee's costs of commuting to or parking at work. However, this is a perk that is occasionally offered pursuant to negotiation.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't park in the garage that far away without a ride to my car at the end of the night. The cost is irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

[vimeo]Mb here. I pay for my nanny's metro and bus. Would definitely ask to cover the fee