Nanny arriving late
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Anonymous
| Our nanny frequently arrives 5-7 minutes late but then records her time as if she arrives on time. We have already had a discussion with her about this, and she improved for a few months, but now is arriving late again. When we ask, she always has an excuse (traffic, construction, etc.). Any suggestions as to how to deal with this? Another talk? Most days we are flexible, but some days we have meetings and need to be out the door on time. |
Anonymous
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Give her two weeks to improve or change her start time. Tell
her you need her to start 15 minutes earlier, perhaps then you can leave on time. |
Anonymous
| Change her start time or tell her you will dock her pay 15 mins if she is late...sounds petty but this would piss me off. |
Anonymous
| Just make sure that you are always on time. |
Anonymous
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If the employer is late, the nanny gets paid overtime.
If the nanny is late, oh well, she still expects to be paid her regular amount. |
Anonymous
| Does she speak English? |
Anonymous
| If you otherwise like her, I would just let her know the days you have meetings and she absolutely needs to be on time. 5-7 minutes wouldn't phase me most mornings. Otoh, I do expect her to be flexible with me and put away the proverbial coffee cup in the sink. |
Anonymous
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Tell her that you're going to have to push her start time back to 15 minutes earlier, and that you are only going to pay her starting when she arrives to the minute (yes, be that petty; I would be if I had to pay extra just to get her to show up on time).
I suspect she either won't want to come early and will arrive on time, or she can arrive late, and it's no skin off your nose. |
Anonymous
| I don't tolerate that. I'd tell her this is her final warning that she really needs to be on time. If every SINGLE day there's traffic or construction or some other issue then she's simply not leaving early enough and needs to leave earlier in the morning. |
Anonymous
| Give her a written warning. Maybe then it will sink in to her that you are serious |
Anonymous
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Warn her again that she needs to be on time.
If she does well, then slides back to her old ways, time to show her you mean business by docking her pay or issuing her her walking papers. |
Anonymous
You've already dealt with it once. Give her a written warning, and tell her that you will be docking her pay starting the next day she is late. The odd time if there's an accident I can see, but if it's constantly traffic etc. then she needs to plan accordingly and leave earlier. |
Anonymous
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She knows she's late (and probably feels really bad about it), but talking to her about the importance of being on time again isn't going to do jack. Give her some real consequences for being late in the future and move her start time 15 minutes earlier...it's irresponsible (and cheap) on your part to have her show up the minute you need to walk out the door and creates unnecessary stress for all parties.
-Chronic late party |
Anonymous
| OP here. Thanks for your helpful replies. We gave her one last warning last night and said that we would move her start time 15 minutes earlier and/or dock her pay if she did not start arriving on time (9am). She apologized and arrived slightly early today. Hoping that this does the trick! |
Anonymous
If she is a great nanny, you don't want to lose her. I would just stress to her that you really need her there on time when you have meetings. Let her know the night before when you have a meeting. She might feel that since many days your not at a meeting that it's not a big deal if she is five minutes late. |