New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can we have an update OP?

I texted them this weekend saying that legally I'm owed my full pay and that I'm sincerely sorry I broke the wine glass. The mother got super pissy, and basically fired me. They owe me my pay from last week, if I don't get it I will take them to the small claims court. It's $500 but I didn't work a 40 hour week for free.

You should absolutely take them to small claims court

[Anonymous]

Holy shit those people are awful!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we have an update OP?

I texted them this weekend saying that legally I'm owed my full pay and that I'm sincerely sorry I broke the wine glass. The mother got super pissy, and basically fired me. They owe me my pay from last week, if I don't get it I will take them to the small claims court. It's $500 but I didn't work a 40 hour week for free.

You should absolutely take them to small claims court

That is $12.50 an hour. If you are in DC area, that is well below market rate for a nanny. If you are in DC, then they ripped you off, then ripped you off again.

I sure hope you have better luck with your next job.

[Anonymous]

You break something you have to pay to replace it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we have an update OP?

I texted them this weekend saying that legally I'm owed my full pay and that I'm sincerely sorry I broke the wine glass. The mother got super pissy, and basically fired me. They owe me my pay from last week, if I don't get it I will take them to the small claims court. It's $500 but I didn't work a 40 hour week for free.

You should also apply for employment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We had a housekeeper break the marble top on a $10,000 antique table in half purely because she was an idiot. We still didn't try to charge her. You need to say no and find a new job ASAP.

No. You were the idiot. If you have an item that expensive then you either clean it yourself or hire an expert to clean the table.

Then no one with antique furniture could ever have household staff ...
Homeowner's insurance covers this stuff, but at the 10K mark, you have to decide if it's worth it to make the claim and possibly lose your insurance.

Broke a marble table in half? How? Did she drop a piano on it?

She tried to detach the marble top from the wood bottom to polish it. (Something we 100% never asked her to do; it never even occurred to me someone would think this was possible.) In trying to do so, she knocked the whole thing on its side and the marble split in half. It may have had some kind of undetected weakness previously to crack like that (we got it from my Grandma and it dates to the 1870s, apparently) or it may have just hit the floor at a really unfortunate angle (it dented out wood floor too). In any case, we didn't want our insurance to go up, so we didn't claim anything; we hired someone to essentially plaster glue it back together and, because of marble's natural color variations, it's not that noticeable unless you're standing over it (when it definitely is).

That qualifies as idiotic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we have an update OP?

I texted them this weekend saying that legally I'm owed my full pay and that I'm sincerely sorry I broke the wine glass. The mother got super pissy, and basically fired me. They owe me my pay from last week, if I don't get it I will take them to the small claims court. It's $500 but I didn't work a 40 hour week for free.

did you get your pay?

[Anonymous]

I am really sorry, OP. Yes, take them to court or go to Legal Services and get one of the lawyers to write a letter on your behalf to scare them.

I wish there was someway nannies could warn other nannies about horrid employers.

[Anonymous]

At the rate you were being paid, had they docked your pay by $250, they would have been paying you far below minimum wage. They knew exactly what they were doing, and were hoping that you wouldn't realize it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we have an update OP?

I texted them this weekend saying that legally I'm owed my full pay and that I'm sincerely sorry I broke the wine glass. The mother got super pissy, and basically fired me. They owe me my pay from last week, if I don't get it I will take them to the small claims court. It's $500 but I didn't work a 40 hour week for free.

did you get your pay?

No. I never got my pay. Decided to let it go.

I'm not in the DC area.

[Anonymous]

I bet they wanted OP to replace the whole set of glasses, which is BS. And if the glass really is worth $250, then they are morons for leaving it in the sink.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we have an update OP?

I texted them this weekend saying that legally I'm owed my full pay and that I'm sincerely sorry I broke the wine glass. The mother got super pissy, and basically fired me. They owe me my pay from last week, if I don't get it I will take them to the small claims court. It's $500 but I didn't work a 40 hour week for free.

did you get your pay?

No. I never got my pay. Decided to let it go.

I'm not in the DC area.

Why would you let it go? You might not even need to go to small claims court, but rather give the Department of Labor a call.

[Anonymous]

Please do not let them get away with this.

[Anonymous]

Please don't let it go. What do you have to lose for sticking up for yourself?

[Anonymous]

Take them to court OP!
Please don't let them get away with this.