How would you split these hours?

[Anonymous]

If two full time (40 hour) nannies are splitting a position that requires 8 hours of coverage each weekday evening (2 - 10), and 16 hours every weekend day (6a - 10p), with some double coverage during the week, which split would you prefer?

Split 1

Nanny A: M-F 2p - 10p

Nanny B, S/S 6a - 10p, plus 8 hours during the week.

Split 2

Both nannies: 3 weekdays 2p - 10p, and 1 weekend day 6a - 10p

Split 3

Nanny A: 3 weekdays, 2p - 10p, and both weekend days 6a - 2p

Nanny B: 3 weekdays 2p - 10p and both weekend days 2p - 10p

Split 4

Both nannies: 3 weekdays 2 - 10p and every other weekend 2 days 6a - 10p*

[Anonymous]

What kind of family can't spend even the smallest amount of time with their children? I wouldn't accept any of these options since I would never want to work for such a family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kind of family can't spend even the smallest amount of time with their children? I wouldn't accept any of these options since I would never want to work for such a family.

Single parent with several kids, one of whom is very sick and sometimes needs to be rushed to hospital. Having full time coverage when siblings aren't in school, allows parent to be by his side if need be, and also allows kids to participate in normal kid things while either mom or nanny stays home with child who is often allowed to leave the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of family can't spend even the smallest amount of time with their children? I wouldn't accept any of these options since I would never want to work for such a family.

Single parent with several kids, one of whom is very sick and sometimes needs to be rushed to hospital. Having full time coverage when siblings aren't in school, allows parent to be by his side if need be, and also allows kids to participate in normal kid things while either mom or nanny stays home with child who is often allowed to leave the house.

Sorry, that should read often not allowed to leave the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of family can't spend even the smallest amount of time with their children? I wouldn't accept any of these options since I would never want to work for such a family.

Single parent with several kids, one of whom is very sick and sometimes needs to be rushed to hospital. Having full time coverage when siblings aren't in school, allows parent to be by his side if need be, and also allows kids to participate in normal kid things while either mom or nanny stays home with child who is often allowed to leave the house.

Kid can only be sick during the day? How come no night coverage? If kids needs to go to the hospital she's going to have to wake up all the kids??????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of family can't spend even the smallest amount of time with their children? I wouldn't accept any of these options since I would never want to work for such a family.

Single parent with several kids, one of whom is very sick and sometimes needs to be rushed to hospital. Having full time coverage when siblings aren't in school, allows parent to be by his side if need be, and also allows kids to participate in normal kid things while either mom or nanny stays home with child who is often allowed to leave the house.

Kid can only be sick during the day? How come no night coverage? If kids needs to go to the hospital she's going to have to wake up all the kids??????

No, there's another plan for that coverage.

Nannies may be asked occasionally to stay overnight (for pay) to provide relief to that person, but most times it wouldn't be needed.

[Anonymous]

You should work all the available hours. At a reasonable $25 an hour you could be making $2200 a week! It's not really an unreasonable amount of hours, regular 8 hour days and then weekends, it's worth the money for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You should work all the available hours. At a reasonable $25 an hour you could be making $2200 a week! It's not really an unreasonable amount of hours, regular 8 hour days and then weekends, it's worth the money for sure.

I'm not the nanny, I'm someone helping the parent. I think the parent is concerned about burn out, and also hoping that having two nannies rather than one will provide back up when one has to be out due to illness or vacation.

In some ways, this will be a very hard job, as of course supporting kids through such a painful situation is emotionally very taxing, and as the mom is home almost all the time which isn't most nanny's preference. In some ways it will be an easy job, because when the sick child is home, mom treasures the times with just her family and is happy to have the nanny take some time to herself, as long as she stays close enough to return quickly.

Mom is fortunately in a position to be able to pay well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should work all the available hours. At a reasonable $25 an hour you could be making $2200 a week! It's not really an unreasonable amount of hours, regular 8 hour days and then weekends, it's worth the money for sure.

I'm not the nanny, I'm someone helping the parent. I think the parent is concerned about burn out, and also hoping that having two nannies rather than one will provide back up when one has to be out due to illness or vacation.

In some ways, this will be a very hard job, as of course supporting kids through such a painful situation is emotionally very taxing, and as the mom is home almost all the time which isn't most nanny's preference. In some ways it will be an easy job, because when the sick child is home, mom treasures the times with just her family and is happy to have the nanny take some time to herself, as long as she stays close enough to return quickly.

Mom is fortunately in a position to be able to pay well.

In that case then you already seem to understand, this is a position almost no nanny would want to take, no professional nanny at least. As described all mom needs is a warm body really (not saying the person has to absolutely suck) so she is better looking on care.com or other places for a newer nanny or someone with generally less experience. That way mom doesn't need to pay absolute top dollar but can still pay well enough to get such a nanny to do her absolute best.

[Anonymous]

Nannies should rotate schedule and weeks. No one wants to give up their weekends forever. Feel bad for the kids in this situation. More like no parent, than a single parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should work all the available hours. At a reasonable $25 an hour you could be making $2200 a week! It's not really an unreasonable amount of hours, regular 8 hour days and then weekends, it's worth the money for sure.

I'm not the nanny, I'm someone helping the parent. I think the parent is concerned about burn out, and also hoping that having two nannies rather than one will provide back up when one has to be out due to illness or vacation.

In some ways, this will be a very hard job, as of course supporting kids through such a painful situation is emotionally very taxing, and as the mom is home almost all the time which isn't most nanny's preference. In some ways it will be an easy job, because when the sick child is home, mom treasures the times with just her family and is happy to have the nanny take some time to herself, as long as she stays close enough to return quickly.

Mom is fortunately in a position to be able to pay well.

In that case then you already seem to understand, this is a position almost no nanny would want to take, no professional nanny at least. As described all mom needs is a warm body really (not saying the person has to absolutely suck) so she is better looking on care.com or other places for a newer nanny or someone with generally less experience. That way mom doesn't need to pay absolute top dollar but can still pay well enough to get such a nanny to do her absolute best.

No, because there's a lot of time when mom is at the hospital with the sick child. So, whoever is at home during that time needs to be top quality since they may be solo for most of the week, one week, and then mom and sick kid might be there for 2 or 3 weeks straight.

Yes, it's a challenging position.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nannies should rotate schedule and weeks. No one wants to give up their weekends forever. Feel bad for the kids in this situation. More like no parent, than a single parent.

What kind of nanny wants to rotate schedules? A real nanny wants a steady stable job with normal hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nannies should rotate schedule and weeks. No one wants to give up their weekends forever. Feel bad for the kids in this situation. More like no parent, than a single parent.

Yes, it's a crappy situation. Not sure what's a better solution though.

So, you'd vote for split 4? I was thinking something like this:

Week One

Sat: A
Sun: A
Mon: B
Tue: B
Wed: A&B (allowing mom some "off" time)
Thurs: A
Fri: A
Sat: B
Sun: B
Mon: A
Tue: A
Wed : A&B
Thur: B
Fri: B

start over

[Anonymous]

If people feel strongly about having a weekend "off" another option would be for the nannies to always work the same weekdays, and alternate weekends.

So, one nanny would work

Every M, T, W and every other weekend

and the other every W, Th, F and every other weekend

The downside of this would be that when they're on for 5 days straight. The upside would be 4 straight days off every other week, and the opportunity to schedule something regular on the days that are always off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nannies should rotate schedule and weeks. No one wants to give up their weekends forever. Feel bad for the kids in this situation. More like no parent, than a single parent.

Yes, it's a crappy situation. Not sure what's a better solution though.

So, you'd vote for split 4? I was thinking something like this:

Week One

Sat: A
Sun: A
Mon: B
Tue: B
Wed: A&B (allowing mom some "off" time)
Thurs: A
Fri: A
Sat: B
Sun: B
Mon: A
Tue: A
Wed : A&B
Thur: B
Fri: B

start over

Good luck finding someone lol