I should get paid for this, right? I should!

[Anonymous]

I like the suggested email. I hope she straightens this out OP.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an MB. I want to make sure that I have the timeline right - you worked this past Saturday and Sunday and you normally get paid on Monday? Today is Tuesday and you are wondering where the money is? Or was it a full week ago that you worked the overtime? Do you get direct deposit or a check?

Let me tell you what likely happened from the perspective of someone who recently lost someone. The entire week my family member died, I was in a fog. Entire week. Our nanny worked a ton of overtime, and was amazing, but did the thought cross my mind to give her a check at that time? No. Would I have been annoyed if she had asked me then. You bet. Then again, I guess it depends on your relationship with your nanny. Our nanny knew I was good for it, and when I came back to the realm of dealing, I paid her the overtime. I also forgot to pay our mortgage, car payment, water bill, etc. When you lose someone you care about, bills are the last thing on your mind. In your case, it has beeen TWO DAYS. Give the woman a break. If she hadn't given you your regular paycheck, that's one thing, but give her a couple of days to get herself together and then if she hasn't given you the overtime, you can ask for it.

As a practical matter, if you get paid by a direct deposit check or a payroll service, then your MB would not have had time to make a change as those need to be made a week in advance. It sounds like you are paid a paper check, so perhaps that isn't applicable, but just a thought.

Look, I agree that you should be paid, but I guarantee you, your MB has 1001 other things she is dealing with. Please let her grieve for two days.

Agree with this 100%

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an MB here and you absolutely 1000% deserve to be paid for the time you worked and then some. Especially given how you came in at 4:30am to help her. I also think her offended reaction is strange BUT everyone deals with grief differently and if she was close to her aunt this could be a very hard time for her. Not to mention her husband is out of town so she's dealing with this alone. I'm not saying it's an excuse to not pay you but it's an excuse to maybe wait for the next pay check. Especially since she's never been like this before. When will DB be home and is he pretty reasonable? Maybe you could mention to him that you worked 25 extra hours that you didn't get paid for. You know MB is having a rough time so you didn't want to bother her about it but could he please make sure you get paid for those hours with your next pay check.

I agree with what you're saying but please stop lying and saying you're an MB.

OP here, how do you know this poster is lying. MB, DB, and nannies frequent the board. Don't be presumptuous.

I can tell by the writing style

You elitist asshole, no you can't. Go away.

No, I'm really a very nice person. These are just a couple of examples of a fifth graders writing style.

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No, PP, really nice people don't call people liars when they have no proof.

OP, I'm an MB and you should definitely get paid. I think the PP's email suggestion is a great way to handle it.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an MB here and you absolutely 1000% deserve to be paid for the time you worked and then some. Especially given how you came in at 4:30am to help her. I also think her offended reaction is strange BUT everyone deals with grief differently and if she was close to her aunt this could be a very hard time for her. Not to mention her husband is out of town so she's dealing with this alone. I'm not saying it's an excuse to not pay you but it's an excuse to maybe wait for the next pay check. Especially since she's never been like this before. When will DB be home and is he pretty reasonable? Maybe you could mention to him that you worked 25 extra hours that you didn't get paid for. You know MB is having a rough time so you didn't want to bother her about it but could he please make sure you get paid for those hours with your next pay check.

I agree with what you're saying but please stop lying and saying you're an MB.

OP here, how do you know this poster is lying. MB, DB, and nannies frequent the board. Don't be presumptuous.

I can tell by the writing style

You elitist asshole, no you can't. Go away.

No, I'm really a very nice person. These are just a couple of examples of a fifth graders writing style.

Do you not understand that your assumption that because she writes badly, she can't be an MB or that she must be a nanny is an insult to us all? There are plenty of educated nannies that can string together a cohesive statement, and there are plenty of MBs for whome English is not their first language and their writing is less sophisticated. Nevermind that this is an internet forum, not a dissertation. You might be a very nice person, but that statement was not.

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*whom not whome, before the poster with her class radar corrects me.

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Anonymous wrote:OP- Wow, I can't believe you weren't paid for these additional 25 hours, especially since MB was able to provide you with your normal weekly paycheck. How crazy that she didn't think to compensate you immediately for those hours...

You sound extremely patient to be willing to wait an entire week for your next paycheck to get this sorted out. God bless you.

I hope and pray your MB does the right thing and pays you ASAP and to be honest she should pay you a little extra given the fact that you accepted a phone call at 3am, arrived at work at 4:30 and then worked a 16 hour day and then worked the next day. I would hope she appreciates you and pays overtime or some kind of extra compensation for all your hard work and flexibility.

Keep us posted how this works out. Wishing you the best.

I agreee. Not many nannies have the income to create enough cash flow, not be paid when expected. With all due respect to the passing of a loved one, everyone else who gets a late payment is going to charge you interest and/or late fees. This isn't an emotional issue for those who are awaiting due payment. It's a matter of dollars and cents here, especially for those who have much less of an income to live on, than you do.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an MB here and you absolutely 1000% deserve to be paid for the time you worked and then some. Especially given how you came in at 4:30am to help her. I also think her offended reaction is strange BUT everyone deals with grief differently and if she was close to her aunt this could be a very hard time for her. Not to mention her husband is out of town so she's dealing with this alone. I'm not saying it's an excuse to not pay you but it's an excuse to maybe wait for the next pay check. Especially since she's never been like this before. When will DB be home and is he pretty reasonable? Maybe you could mention to him that you worked 25 extra hours that you didn't get paid for. You know MB is having a rough time so you didn't want to bother her about it but could he please make sure you get paid for those hours with your next pay check.

I agree with what you're saying but please stop lying and saying you're an MB.

OP here, how do you know this poster is lying. MB, DB, and nannies frequent the board. Don't be presumptuous.

I can tell by the writing style

You elitist asshole, no you can't. Go away.

No, I'm really a very nice person. These are just a couple of examples of a fifth graders writing style.

It should go without saying, but clearly it can't, that you should probably check your grammar and spelling before you try to call someone else out on their quality of writing.

[Anonymous]

If it was me (a nanny) if just assume the pay period cut-off was Friday and expect it on the next check. I wouldn't have expected it on the check the day after when things are so stressful

I actually wouldn't mention it to MB until she gives you your check, or maybe discuss it on Friday (or send the suggested email then) before payday. "Just checking..." If all has been well so far, I'm sure she will pay you and just wasn't prepared for that conversation.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an MB here and you absolutely 1000% deserve to be paid for the time you worked and then some. Especially given how you came in at 4:30am to help her. I also think her offended reaction is strange BUT everyone deals with grief differently and if she was close to her aunt this could be a very hard time for her. Not to mention her husband is out of town so she's dealing with this alone. I'm not saying it's an excuse to not pay you but it's an excuse to maybe wait for the next pay check. Especially since she's never been like this before. When will DB be home and is he pretty reasonable? Maybe you could mention to him that you worked 25 extra hours that you didn't get paid for. You know MB is having a rough time so you didn't want to bother her about it but could he please make sure you get paid for those hours with your next pay check.

I agree with what you're saying but please stop lying and saying you're an MB.

OP here, how do you know this poster is lying. MB, DB, and nannies frequent the board. Don't be presumptuous.

I can tell by the writing style

You elitist asshole, no you can't. Go away.

No, I'm really a very nice person. These are just a couple of examples of a fifth graders writing style.

Lol. This whole thing is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh. I am the original MB poster and while I could not care less what one obnoxious anonymous poster thinks I can assure you that I am an MB. If you don't believe me ask Jeff to check my previous posts. I wrote a post when I was tired last night to try to give OP helpful advice, not thinking my writing style would be under such scrutiny. All you did was criticize someone you don't even know and offend both the MBs AND nannies on this forum.

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MB here (first post on this thread).

Absolutely you need and deserve to be paid. Hopefully there is no question of that in your employer's head.

I don't think you've answered whether you are paid by automatic deposit (just gave all the replies a quick scan so it's possible I've missed this)?

If you are, that cannot be changed/altered quickly enough to pay you for time worked just one or two days prior - even if your MB had the time, ability or presence of mind to deal with that in the middle of the death and funeral.

I would definitely ask her about it, and approach it from the perspective that of course she intends to pay you and you were just wondering when/how she might plan to do that.

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Anonymous wrote:OP- Wow, I can't believe you weren't paid for these additional 25 hours, especially since MB was able to provide you with your normal weekly paycheck. How crazy that she didn't think to compensate you immediately for those hours...

You sound extremely patient to be willing to wait an entire week for your next paycheck to get this sorted out. God bless you.

I hope and pray your MB does the right thing and pays you ASAP and to be honest she should pay you a little extra given the fact that you accepted a phone call at 3am, arrived at work at 4:30 and then worked a 16 hour day and then worked the next day. I would hope she appreciates you and pays overtime or some kind of extra compensation for all your hard work and flexibility.

Keep us posted how this works out. Wishing you the best.

I agreee. Not many nannies have the income to create enough cash flow, not be paid when expected. With all due respect to the passing of a loved one, everyone else who gets a late payment is going to charge you interest and/or late fees. This isn't an emotional issue for those who are awaiting due payment. It's a matter of dollars and cents here, especially for those who have much less of an income to live on, than you do.

It wasn't the regular paycheck that wasn't paid, but overtime. I agree with you were it the regular paycheck, but this was last minute emergency situation and I think the OP can wait a couple of days before asking for it given the circumstances.

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I agree you should be paid, but I also agree with pp's who indicate it might be a pay period cut-off date issue. Even if you are paid by a manual check, if the pay period is cut off Friday, I wouldn't expect payment until the following pay date.

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Anonymous wrote:Mb here. Maybe her dh handles the money. But yes you absolutely need to get paid for this weekend.

Possibly. I was simply asking her, not demeaning the money right away. MB is usually in complete charge of my schedule and writes out my checks, but maybe she needed to run it by DB. Who knows.

[Anonymous]

I agree with the pay period cut off date posters. It happened to me a handful of times during my employment. The first time it happened, I emailed them about it and they explained what happened. I don't think you should necessarily think the way your MB acted means you won't get paid. She very well could have been in her own little grieving world and not really realized what you were even asking. I think an email is the best way to go about it in this situation.