Just come home on time!!
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Anonymous
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I started work at 6:30 AM and agreed to stay late so my employers could have a date night. It was just a hard, busy and hectic day with no downtime until an hour ago when both kids were down. Now they just texted me and said they are going to be a half hour later than promised.
I know this is not a big deal and I do love this job but... come on! I just want to go home! They know I have been here for 14.5 hours already! Vent. This is just a vent. I will be fine after I get some sleep. |
Anonymous
| I never agree to stay for date night. They have separate baby sitters and other sitters who work weekend and or evenings when they need to go out. I can do it once in a while though if they really need it |
Anonymous
| Do you have to be back at 6:30 am tomorrow morning? |
Anonymous
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OP here. I am fine now - finally home in bed.
My employers recently moved across town and they lost their night babysitter. Plus my older charge has some issues about the move and starting preschool so I felt like introducing a new sitter would be too hard for her - but now she would be fine. No, I don’t have to work until 11 tomorrow. It was just s fricking hard day and too long. |
Anonymous
| You should tell them to find a date night babysitter because you are no longer available under any circumstances. They used you and have no respect for you as a person. You should start looking and find a new job. Good luck. |
Anonymous
Yeah... no. You are definitely overreacting, PP! I love my job and am well compensated. No chance I will leave over 30 minutes!! |
Anonymous
| Parents need to be sensitive to their lateness issues, and not assume the sitter can stay later than agreed. |
Anonymous
| Omg do u know how often people in regular salaried office jobs have to stay late with no notice and nobody is apologizing to them for the inconvenience or paying them hourly/ OT. |
Anonymous
Yes, of course. I am a mature nanny who worked in a different field for 25 years. OP here and I was tired last night. It was just a date night, not a work related emergency, and finding out five minutes after they were expected home that they would be an additional 30 minutes late, when I was concluding a difficult 15 hour day with an infant and toddler, was difficult for me. |
Anonymous
If ppl in office jobs want to be taken advantage of then that’s their issue, not OPs. Nannies aren’t typically salaried anyway. You want to keep your nanny, you arrive on time and compensate when you do not. Only a fool would think they could arrive late and not compensate for OT. Even daycares/aftercare charges a fee for arriving late. |
Anonymous
Yeah, poor you. Working late is not a date night. Every job has different expectations. OP’s employers should have texted her long before they did to inform her that things were running late. End of discussion. |
Anonymous
Why do people compare being a nanny to other jobs likes it’s not a PROFESSION?! And what’s your point? |
Anonymous
Ignore this poster. She always posts the same thing as if she imagines all nannies are 20 yr old babysitters who have no clue about the “real world”. She is clueless. |
Anonymous
This is nuts. They called to say they'd be late. |
Anonymous
I am a nanny and I agree. This “no respect for you poster” is a little drama queen. |