Snow days
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Anonymous
| How do you handle snow days? |
Anonymous
| Are you working tomorrow? Backup care or take PTO. |
Anonymous
| I'm a nanny and I get paid snow days when the government closes. |
Anonymous
| We handle them on a case by case basis. I'll be shocked if they ask me to come in tomorrow. |
Anonymous
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We speak the day before in case that nanny wants to sleep over.
We speak again at 7am after reassessing the roads (spouse leaves for work at 6:30am so he will have already phoned me about conditions). If bad (sig snow) or icy no one works. If OK nanny comes in at some point of the morning. If OK and nanny can't get car going we send uber or pick her up ourselves. Then go to the office. |
Anonymous
| We pay when the Fed. Gov't closes up to 3 days/year. However, days like today frustrate me to no end. Did anyone's nanny come to work today? |
Anonymous
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Yup. Drove in easy peasy. We all drove to work just fine.
First we checked the various traffic cams, saw sweating black asphalt and light traffic, plowed roads and all went to work. Not a lot of Club Fed in our neighborhood so we also watched the neighbors drive off to work from 6am inward. If we had easy work today we would have worked from home but I had 4 in person meetings and the majority of my 50 person division was in the office by 11am doing business as usual. |
Anonymous
Mine did but she worked a short day (came two hours later and left one hour earlier but we paid her for the full day). We don't have a formal agreement on snow days, but when I went to bed I thought that it would be reasonable to ask her to come in if it's less than five inches and the metro is running. She's in her 20s and healthy, lives five minutes from the metro, and we are less than three blocks from the metro. If it was more snow or she took the bus or had to drive, I wouldn't have asked her to come in. |
Anonymous
| This is a tricky one. It's a tough call. Last year, the days really began to add up so we will consider putting it into the contract. |
Anonymous
This seems reasonable, as I'm *very* uneasy driving on ice. It's already slick out there. |
Anonymous
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We're in regular communication. Last night I emailed our nanny and told her to check the roads before coming in and to come later if necessary. Safety first.
The roads were actually fine if she rerouted around accidents so it wasn't an issue. Tomorrow (friday) my office will close in time for everyone to get home safely and I'll do the same for her. We will figure out next week as it happens. I am guessing Monday will be a snow day for all of us, and hopefully Tuesday we can be back to some version of normal. |
Anonymous
| My nanny came today at 8am (regular time). She decided to leave at 1pm. I haven't decided if I'll pay for full day or just hours worked. We didn't cover this completely when hired. I'm curious to read what more people do about pay on snow days. |
Anonymous
Does she have guaranteed hours? Were you already at home, or did she cause you to have to leave work. I go by the federal government, and get paid when they close. If you docked my pay for leaving early to get ahead of a blizzard, you'd be looking for a new nanny. |
Anonymous
You should pay her. It's a small price to pay for the good will and basic decency. - MB |
Anonymous
agree with this mb. why would you dock her pay? if she had left any later she would likely have run into snow on her way home. are you that cheap? |