150$ for 96 hours?!?

[Anonymous]

So my NF went of vacation and left their DCs here with me, Sunday-early Th morning. Both children were sick and baby DC woke up multiple times each night. I just got the check for them being gone. 150 dollars, they only paid for the overnight 8pm-8am. Nothing for all day Sunday or the hours before my scheduled time or after my scheded time.
I was already getting fed up with this family and this has sealed the deal. Never again will I sit extra for them, let alone overnight. 5 more months til this job ends and I'm counting down every day.
Btw, my hourly rate is 20$ so it's quite a bit of money they have not paid me.

[Anonymous]

Op forgot to add, they have always paid for the weekends and extra hours when I've say overnight. They've been acting shady for a while now and this just takes the cake.

[Anonymous]

Send them an invoice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Send them an invoice.[/quote
They won't even discuss it with me. It'd be a waste of paper

[Anonymous]

Why do you need to wait another five months before quitting? If you have a contract, by not paying you for hours you worked the parents broke the contract. They are stealing form you, nanny - my advice is to quit. I don't think the next five months is going to be any more pleasant for you!!!

[Anonymous]

I'm staying til the contract is up simply because I have another job lined up when this ends...with friends of MBs. I don't want to jeopardize that new job when I can stick it out here and be done, and not burn any bridges.

[Anonymous]

MB here. You should absolutely bill them for the time they didn't pay. Approach it as though you're assuming it was just an oversight, but do not let it go unaddressed.

I say this especially if your next job is with people they know. You do not want to go into the next job w/ your future employers making assumptions about how you expect to be compensated (or not) for things like this. Parents talk. Don't let your current employers ruin things w/ your future employers by telling them you are this cheaply bought/taken advantage of.

And I'm sorry they treated you this way - it's inexcusable.

[Anonymous]

Invoice them. You don't want the MB telling the new family you over night and weekend sit for free!! There is nothing unprofessional about sending a client an invoice.

Hours worked: XX
Total Amount Owed: XX
Amount Paid : 150$
Remaining Balance : XX

[Anonymous]

Invoice them. Then tell them in a letter they have five business days to pay you what they owe, before they will force you to take them to Small Claims court.

[Anonymous]

Just text them to let me know that there was an error in the check they gave you, and tell them the right amount because you kept the kids for 96 hours and took care of them as if they were your own. Let us know how it goes. You should not be taken advantage of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just text them to let me know that there was an error in the check they gave you, and tell them the right amount because you kept the kids for 96 hours and took care of them as if they were your own. Let us know how it goes. You should not be taken advantage of.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Invoice them. Then tell them in a letter they have five business days to pay you what they owe, before they will force you to take them to Small Claims court.

Ya threatening your boss with small claims is a great way to keep a job. If a nanny said that to me I would fire her right then and there. And I'm a nanny . I do think op should be paid but as a nanny stuff like this unfortunately happens. I typically get paid less for weekend overnight work. Parents just don't want to pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Invoice them. Then tell them in a letter they have five business days to pay you what they owe, before they will force you to take them to Small Claims court.

Ya threatening your boss with small claims is a great way to keep a job. If a nanny said that to me I would fire her right then and there. And I'm a nanny . I do think op should be paid but as a nanny stuff like this unfortunately happens. I typically get paid less for weekend overnight work. Parents just don't want to pay.

You and OP are the reason why so many nannies get taken advantage of. Stop giving terrible advice.

If your bosses fire you because they don't want to pay what you are owed, aren't you better off not working for them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Invoice them. Then tell them in a letter they have five business days to pay you what they owe, before they will force you to take them to Small Claims court.

Ya threatening your boss with small claims is a great way to keep a job. If a nanny said that to me I would fire her right then and there. And I'm a nanny . I do think op should be paid but as a nanny stuff like this unfortunately happens. I typically get paid less for weekend overnight work. Parents just don't want to pay.

You and OP are the reason why so many nannies get taken advantage of. Stop giving terrible advice.

If your bosses fire you because they don't want to pay what you are owed, aren't you better off not working for them?

No because then you are out of a job and have been fired. 2 awful things.

[Anonymous]

OP, unless there is something "wrong" with you as a nanny (not much experience, very old or very young, something else that makes it unusually hard for you to find a new job), IMO, you would be way better off quitting now and finding a different job that starts right away. The other family has 5 months to find your replacement and PP is right that if you found them through this family, they will likely want to behave in similar ways to this family. You are waiting 5 months to go from frying pan to fire.