Furloughed Feds who "furloughed" your nanny

[Anonymous]

How did it work out? If she quit, what are your plans for child care now? If she stuck around, will you pay her for the time you didn't use her, since you will likely get back pay?

[Anonymous]

Hmmm. Interesting.
No comments over 12 hours after the post.

[Anonymous]

...because it's none of your business perhaps?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:...because it's none of your business perhaps?

You must be new here.

[Anonymous]

Maybe it is the question itself that is not particularly interesting (rather than the lack of responses). Perhaps there were very few people who furloughed their nanny because most people who have a nanny have some form of reserve (either personal savings, family members with wealth, etc.) they can draw on. It seems kind of crazy to hire a nanny if you are living paycheck to paycheck ... seems like it could easily become an unmaneagable expense if having to wait an extra pay period for your paycheck is enough to put you in the red. Maybe I am out of touch with reality but it seems like a really dicey way to live (and probably such a person really can't afford a nanny in the first place).

[Anonymous]

Agree with 8:55. I have several friends who were furloughed and they were worried about what would happen if this went on for months with no paycheck, not a couple of weeks. Plus, the likelihood of back pay, they were comfortable putting more on their credit card than normal in order to have cash to pay nanny and other expenses. Not one furloughed their nanny and they only had talked about it if the furlough continued until November/December or something like that.

[Anonymous]

No one I know furloughed their nanny, although if the shutdown had continued more than a few weeks, that might have changed.

[Anonymous]

I have been thinking the same thing. With all the threads on here when the shutdown happened about what to do with the nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been thinking the same thing. With all the threads on here when the shutdown happened about what to do with the nanny.

I think most of those posters were talking about if the shutdown went on longer than it did.

[Anonymous]

Im the OP. There was an MB that posted on here after 2 DAYS saying she couldn't afford it much longer, and there was a long discussion about the need for emergency savings, whether or not someone can truly afford a nanny if the savings aren't there, etc. I am just interested in whether or not people actually went through with laying off their nanny and what their plans are now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Im the OP. There was an MB that posted on here after 2 DAYS saying she couldn't afford it much longer, and there was a long discussion about the need for emergency savings, whether or not someone can truly afford a nanny if the savings aren't there, etc. I am just interested in whether or not people actually went through with laying off their nanny and what their plans are now.

Yes but even in that long thread the MB said they could keep her on for at least 2 more weeks. I agree with the PPs that pretty much everyone talking about it was talking about long term. Not the short amount of time it actually was.

[Anonymous]

Im the OP. There was an MB that posted on here after 2 DAYS saying she couldn't afford it much longer, and there was a long discussion about the need for emergency savings, whether or not someone can truly afford a nanny if the savings aren't there, etc. I am just interested in whether or not people actually went through with laying off their nanny and what their plans are now.

Looks like your attempt to bash MBs was a fail.

[Anonymous]

20:27, what are you talking about now?

[Anonymous]

I didn't furlough nanny, but gave her extra PTO while I hung with kids. If the furlough had lasted for months, it would be a different story. Most people I know value their nannies and don't want to lose them.

[Anonymous]

I had savings to pay my nanny for the first month of furlough after that we would have possibly reduced her hours, but paid the rest of her full time salary when we received payment. We get paid back. She gets paid back.