Nanny got 2 red light tickets

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You maybe not have gotten a ticket but you are old and they didn't have red light cameras when you were doing most of your driving. You can't honestly tell me you haven't run a "red" light. Just like everyone else we don't often slam on the brakes when the light turns yellow, and then 2.5 seconds later it's red. It's not as big of a deal as you are trying to make it. It's just another way for city governments to make more money.

It's not like she blew through a intersection that has long been red with traffic already moving and narrowly avoided a semi. Stop overreacting.

OP here - There has been a camera at that red light since before I got my license. I drove though that intersection every day of my life until I left for college.

Of course I have accidentally run a red light - I am from NYC, yellow means speed up here - but never with my kids in the car and not as blatantly as she did. If you read my original post carefully, you would know that in the first photo, the light was red and the car had not even reached the crosswalk. The cars going in the opposite direction on the other side of the intersection were stopped and the car in front of her was already on the other side of the other crosswalk. In the second photo, she was in the middle of the intersection.

Anyway, she is fired. It makes me sick to think of what could have happened. I know that intersection and the driving patterns there like the back of my hand. She is incredibly lucky that she did not t-bone someone making a last second left turn.

Thank you all for your comments.

You owe her severance if you are the one choosing to terminate the employment. Just FYI.

not if you fire for cause, like in this case. I really want to see a nanny successfully argue that running a red light twice with the child in the car is no biggie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You maybe not have gotten a ticket but you are old and they didn't have red light cameras when you were doing most of your driving. You can't honestly tell me you haven't run a "red" light. Just like everyone else we don't often slam on the brakes when the light turns yellow, and then 2.5 seconds later it's red. It's not as big of a deal as you are trying to make it. It's just another way for city governments to make more money.

It's not like she blew through a intersection that has long been red with traffic already moving and narrowly avoided a semi. Stop overreacting.

OP here - There has been a camera at that red light since before I got my license. I drove though that intersection every day of my life until I left for college.

Of course I have accidentally run a red light - I am from NYC, yellow means speed up here - but never with my kids in the car and not as blatantly as she did. If you read my original post carefully, you would know that in the first photo, the light was red and the car had not even reached the crosswalk. The cars going in the opposite direction on the other side of the intersection were stopped and the car in front of her was already on the other side of the other crosswalk. In the second photo, she was in the middle of the intersection.

Anyway, she is fired. It makes me sick to think of what could have happened. I know that intersection and the driving patterns there like the back of my hand. She is incredibly lucky that she did not t-bone someone making a last second left turn.

Thank you all for your comments.

You owe her severance if you are the one choosing to terminate the employment. Just FYI.

not if you fire for cause, like in this case. I really want to see a nanny successfully argue that running a red light twice with the child in the car is no biggie

Did she get in or cause an accident? Then you can't fire her for cause.

[Anonymous]

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You owe her severance if you are the one choosing to terminate the employment. Just FYI.

Yes, we will give her something.

2 weeks plus all her vacation and sick days that remain unused paid at time and a half.

Yeah, because she really deserves that for endangering the life of my child.

[Anonymous]

We fired our nanny for safety issues. No severance as she had warnings, tutorials and printouts on the matter and still put our child in harms way.

Done and done. The recent poster's weak excuses are really off the turnip truck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You maybe not have gotten a ticket but you are old and they didn't have red light cameras when you were doing most of your driving. You can't honestly tell me you haven't run a "red" light. Just like everyone else we don't often slam on the brakes when the light turns yellow, and then 2.5 seconds later it's red. It's not as big of a deal as you are trying to make it. It's just another way for city governments to make more money.

It's not like she blew through a intersection that has long been red with traffic already moving and narrowly avoided a semi. Stop overreacting.

OP here - There has been a camera at that red light since before I got my license. I drove though that intersection every day of my life until I left for college.

Of course I have accidentally run a red light - I am from NYC, yellow means speed up here - but never with my kids in the car and not as blatantly as she did. If you read my original post carefully, you would know that in the first photo, the light was red and the car had not even reached the crosswalk. The cars going in the opposite direction on the other side of the intersection were stopped and the car in front of her was already on the other side of the other crosswalk. In the second photo, she was in the middle of the intersection.

Anyway, she is fired. It makes me sick to think of what could have happened. I know that intersection and the driving patterns there like the back of my hand. She is incredibly lucky that she did not t-bone someone making a last second left turn.

Thank you all for your comments.

You owe her severance if you are the one choosing to terminate the employment. Just FYI.

not if you fire for cause, like in this case. I really want to see a nanny successfully argue that running a red light twice with the child in the car is no biggie

Did she get in or cause an accident? Then you can't fire her for cause.

are you the nanny by chance, or are you really this dumb? a nanny can be fired for cause only after she has caused an accident? If my nanny drives my child back home in my car and she is totally drunk, I can fire her for cause only if she has caused an accident? let have the nanny take OP to court and you can see how she is entitled to severance. OP is already being king that she is paying the tickets.

[Anonymous]

Op can fire this nanny for sneezing.

[Anonymous]

OP, fire this nanny immediately for cause. She broke the law and endangered your child. Absolutely, do NOT give her severance or notice. Just pay her on her last day and get your keys.

[Anonymous]

Many here. I think you should pay the tickets and fire her. I would never let her drive my children.

[Anonymous]

This is why I don't let nannies drive around town with my baby! Ever!

Either end all outings immediately or fire her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You maybe not have gotten a ticket but you are old and they didn't have red light cameras when you were doing most of your driving. You can't honestly tell me you haven't run a "red" light. Just like everyone else we don't often slam on the brakes when the light turns yellow, and then 2.5 seconds later it's red. It's not as big of a deal as you are trying to make it. It's just another way for city governments to make more money.

It's not like she blew through a intersection that has long been red with traffic already moving and narrowly avoided a semi. Stop overreacting.

OP here - There has been a camera at that red light since before I got my license. I drove though that intersection every day of my life until I left for college.

Of course I have accidentally run a red light - I am from NYC, yellow means speed up here - but never with my kids in the car and not as blatantly as she did. If you read my original post carefully, you would know that in the first photo, the light was red and the car had not even reached the crosswalk. The cars going in the opposite direction on the other side of the intersection were stopped and the car in front of her was already on the other side of the other crosswalk. In the second photo, she was in the middle of the intersection.

Anyway, she is fired. It makes me sick to think of what could have happened. I know that intersection and the driving patterns there like the back of my hand. She is incredibly lucky that she did not t-bone someone making a last second left turn.

Thank you all for your comments.

You owe her severance if you are the one choosing to terminate the employment. Just FYI.

not if you fire for cause, like in this case. I really want to see a nanny successfully argue that running a red light twice with the child in the car is no biggie

Did she get in or cause an accident? Then you can't fire her for cause.

You are a complete idiot!!!!

[Anonymous]

Honestly I am a nanny and I would let her go if you cannot limit her driving. I would not wait for a 3rd time because the 3rd time could be the time your child is in an accident. I would give her a good reference if the job did not include driving.