Nanny asking for a month off with no notice

[Anonymous]

You should have held her to the two weeks.

Honestly her response would have caused me to fire her.

I would consider this her two weeks notice and start the nanny search.
You can use a temp service until you hire a replacement.

[Anonymous]

Op
I'm a nanny I say fire her. Her response was uncalled for!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op
I'm a nanny I say fire her. Her response was uncalled for!

Agreed and I'm a nanny as well.
If you don't fire her I can see it playing out that she doesn't come back from her trip and you need to replace her anyway.

Like I wrote in my earlier post I think this was intentional on her part.

[Anonymous]

I had a nanny take her two weeks vacation for year one, followed up by her two weeks for year two, and then quit. If that's what's happening here, say no.

I also went to an accrual method for PTO after that. I can't afford to cover more than two weeks paid nanny vacation per year, even if for some reason the year is split between more than one nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a nanny take her two weeks vacation for year one, followed up by her two weeks for year two, and then quit. If that's what's happening here, say no.

I also went to an accrual method for PTO after that. I can't afford to cover more than two weeks paid nanny vacation per year, even if for some reason the year is split between more than one nanny.

This is not op's problem. Her nanny wants a month off without sufficient notice.

If you offered two weeks paid vacation you should expect nanny will take it.

It sounds as though you can't truly afford a nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a nanny take her two weeks vacation for year one, followed up by her two weeks for year two, and then quit. If that's what's happening here, say no.

I also went to an accrual method for PTO after that. I can't afford to cover more than two weeks paid nanny vacation per year, even if for some reason the year is split between more than one nanny.

This is not op's problem. Her nanny wants a month off without sufficient notice.

If you offered two weeks paid vacation you should expect nanny will take it.

It sounds as though you can't truly afford a nanny.

I can afford two weeks (it's actually 12 days, but, whatever). What I can't afford is 4 weeks, or 6 weeks, or the time off work to cover those weeks myself if a nanny quits mid-year after taking her two weeks, and then the new nanny takes her two weeks right away, too.

[Anonymous]

I had a nanny take her two weeks vacation for year one, followed up by her two weeks for year two, and then quit. If that's what's happening here, say no.

I also went to an accrual method for PTO after that. I can't afford to cover more than two weeks paid nanny vacation per year, even if for some reason the year is split between more than one nanny.


This is not op's problem. Her nanny wants a month off without sufficient notice.

If you offered two weeks paid vacation you should expect nanny will take it.

It sounds as though you can't truly afford a nanny.

It sounds like you have reading comprehension issues. If a nanny takes her two weeks from year one and follows it up with her two weeks for year two, then she is gaming her employers for four weeks at once.

That's an abuse of time off and the PP is correct to move to an accrual system for PTO.

Also, please stop with the "you can't afford a nanny" nonsense in every case that a NF doesn't cave into a nanny's insanely entitled expectation of PTO or benefits. It's tiresome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I had a nanny take her two weeks vacation for year one, followed up by her two weeks for year two, and then quit. If that's what's happening here, say no.

I also went to an accrual method for PTO after that. I can't afford to cover more than two weeks paid nanny vacation per year, even if for some reason the year is split between more than one nanny.


This is not op's problem. Her nanny wants a month off without sufficient notice.

If you offered two weeks paid vacation you should expect nanny will take it.

It sounds as though you can't truly afford a nanny.

It sounds like you have reading comprehension issues. If a nanny takes her two weeks from year one and follows it up with her two weeks for year two, then she is gaming her employers for four weeks at once.

That's an abuse of time off and the PP is correct to move to an accrual system for PTO.

Also, please stop with the "you can't afford a nanny" nonsense in every case that a NF doesn't cave into a nanny's insanely entitled expectation of PTO or benefits. It's tiresome.

So a nanny can only take two weeks of vacation once in her time with a family?

Sorry nanny you had two weeks of vacation your first year with us no more time off for next year or subsequent years.



You may be correct that PP is able to afford a nanny, though her previous statement suggests differently, however she is too stupid to have a nanny.

Who agrees to give a nanny vacation time for her second year of work which leads she's in her first year?