If you can't drive your sitter home do you offer to pay for her taxi/uber?
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Anonymous
| I don't think this is necessary since I wouldn't pay for gas or metro fees but just wondering... |
Anonymous
| No. It's Your job to get to and from work. The only exception would be if we hired a high school girl to babysit and it was after midnight. |
Anonymous
| Ok thanks |
Anonymous
| Some nannies (especially in more urban areas) include can fare as a stipulation of late babysitting. It's not an unreasonable perk if negotiated ahead of time, but it's also not something you need to throw in if your sitter hasn't brought it up. |
Anonymous
| No, we drive. I want her to get home safely. She only lives 10 minutes away and is something I'd want done. Normally she drives but a few times her car has had issues. She offers to take the bus and sometimes has but I prefer to drive her with the heat/cold. |
Anonymous
| well i am a single mom so i wouldn't be able to driver her home and we are not metro accessible.. |
Anonymous
| Our sitter is a high school student and either my husband or I will drive her home or on occasions where my husband is traveling I do pay her cab fare and she texts me when she gets home to let us know she's arrived safely. For an adult I probably would not drive/pay cab fare but if your sitter is a high school student then I think its reasonable. |
Anonymous
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Our sitters are graduate students or young adults. We don't drive them or pay for taxis. Their rates are high, and we pay minimums, whether we use the time or not, per they policies, so they are making enough to pay for their transportation.
If I hired a high school or young college student, I would likely take care of their transportation to ensure they get home safely. |
Anonymous
| No...but if I did it would be considered a huge perk. |
Anonymous
| I do, particularly if we are out beyond midnight. If I am too tired I pay for a cab |
Anonymous
| For late nights I give babysitter cab/uber money. We live by a metro so it's her choice to use it or keep it as a bonus. |
Anonymous
| No. I would not drive our nanny home every day. I would drive her if she had an emergency like car trouble. I would drive an occasional sitter that I used for a date night. |
Anonymous
| I uber mine home if they don't drive. I feel much better knowing they got to their door safe. |
Anonymous
| Nope. Our sitters are young adults, so they are totally capable of getting to and from our house. We always pay for at least four hours, so it should be worth their while to come over. |
Anonymous
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But if you get home at 1 or 2 in the morning you think it's ok for a woman to take the metro home? Or bus? Or walk 8 blocks to where her cat is parked given that usually in a city you can't park exactly where you need to? In a city? I wouldn't want to be in that position and I'm a woman in my 40s. I'd Uber them if I couldn't or didn't want to drive them.
Obviously not for a daytime nanny but this is the babysitter forum. |