I work for the best people!

[Anonymous]

This is purely my story, simply sharing it for those who need a lift today.

I posted a month or two ago about my MB and DB offering to pay me while I'm out for a serious medical condition - today is my last day before the surgery and this morning my boss gave me a check for five week's pay (I will be out 4-12 weeks) so I could pay all my bills early and take my time off to focus on recovery. I just can't even put into words... I knew they had offered to pay me but I was still so grateful to get the money, and to get it upfront and know I don't ever have to ask for it! It would have been so easy to not pay me anything today( isn't a payday week for me) and take the chance that I'd never ask about it (I wouldn't have).

They are simply the best.

And just so everyone knows, these are normal middle class parents early in their careers. There are no vacations at all (let alone fancy ones), their car is older than mine, and they can't afford to give me a raise when the second child comes along this summer, so it means that much more to know they are going out of their way to take care of me during a really tough time. I just wanted any run down nannies reading here to know that there are wonderful, generous families out there who value and respect their nannies - even if they don't have the money for $2000 bonuses or gifted cars we hear about sometimes

[Anonymous]

That's wonderful, OP, and I'm glad it worked out for you. May I ask what they're doing for childcare while you're out? I think this is a tough issue - you say that your employers are normal middle class people, but they obviously have either another back-up childcare option they can use for up to three months, a way they can rearrange their own schedules, or enough money to be double-paying for childcare for three months. I'm not saying that people *shouldn't* do what your employers are doing or that a nanny isn't worth it or anything like that, but I can imagine there are some lovely people who literally could not afford to double pay for childcare for three months and/or who would lose their jobs if they had to make it work without their nanny for that long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's wonderful, OP, and I'm glad it worked out for you. May I ask what they're doing for childcare while you're out? I think this is a tough issue - you say that your employers are normal middle class people, but they obviously have either another back-up childcare option they can use for up to three months, a way they can rearrange their own schedules, or enough money to be double-paying for childcare for three months. I'm not saying that people *shouldn't* do what your employers are doing or that a nanny isn't worth it or anything like that, but I can imagine there are some lovely people who literally could not afford to double pay for childcare for three months and/or who would lose their jobs if they had to make it work without their nanny for that long.

Of course. They are flying in both grandmothers from the other coast (for a couple weeks each) to cover while I'm out, so although they will have to put them up in a hotel (they live in a small apartment), there won't be additional childcare costs. Of course not everyone can do it, including people who might want to, I'm just so touched that they were able and willing to do this for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's wonderful, OP, and I'm glad it worked out for you. May I ask what they're doing for childcare while you're out? I think this is a tough issue - you say that your employers are normal middle class people, but they obviously have either another back-up childcare option they can use for up to three months, a way they can rearrange their own schedules, or enough money to be double-paying for childcare for three months. I'm not saying that people *shouldn't* do what your employers are doing or that a nanny isn't worth it or anything like that, but I can imagine there are some lovely people who literally could not afford to double pay for childcare for three months and/or who would lose their jobs if they had to make it work without their nanny for that long.

Of course. They are flying in both grandmothers from the other coast (for a couple weeks each) to cover while I'm out, so although they will have to put them up in a hotel (they live in a small apartment), there won't be additional childcare costs. Of course not everyone can do it, including people who might want to, I'm just so touched that they were able and willing to do this for me.

Completely agree. I think I just wanted to say that although you must be an excellent nanny for them want to do this and you must have very generous employers and that's all wonderful, some of it is luck too. I could want to be as generous as that, but don't have family that is alive, don't have a flexible job schedule, am paying my nanny a great rate but really having to cut back on everything in order to afford it, etc, and just literally could not handle double-paying for child care for three months. Some of it doesn't come to being generous unfortunately

[Anonymous]

(I only posted to take my mind off of what's coming next week and force myself to focus on all the ways I've been so lucky - not to be bratty or imply anything unkind about anyone; hopefully no one feels any judgment in my post!)

[Anonymous]

You found a great family and they got a great nanny!
Take it easy and recover!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's wonderful, OP, and I'm glad it worked out for you. May I ask what they're doing for childcare while you're out? I think this is a tough issue - you say that your employers are normal middle class people, but they obviously have either another back-up childcare option they can use for up to three months, a way they can rearrange their own schedules, or enough money to be double-paying for childcare for three months. I'm not saying that people *shouldn't* do what your employers are doing or that a nanny isn't worth it or anything like that, but I can imagine there are some lovely people who literally could not afford to double pay for childcare for three months and/or who would lose their jobs if they had to make it work without their nanny for that long.

Of course. They are flying in both grandmothers from the other coast (for a couple weeks each) to cover while I'm out, so although they will have to put them up in a hotel (they live in a small apartment), there won't be additional childcare costs. Of course not everyone can do it, including people who might want to, I'm just so touched that they were able and willing to do this for me.

Completely agree. I think I just wanted to say that although you must be an excellent nanny for them want to do this and you must have very generous employers and that's all wonderful, some of it is luck too. I could want to be as generous as that, but don't have family that is alive, don't have a flexible job schedule, am paying my nanny a great rate but really having to cut back on everything in order to afford it, etc, and just literally could not handle double-paying for child care for three months. Some of it doesn't come to being generous unfortunately

Of course. I never meant to imply that everyone can (or even should) do this OR that anyone who can't/doesn't isn't generous too - everyone's situation is different. My apologies!