What time does your AP start work in the morning?

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Anonymous wrote:What about on the weekends? How common is it for AP to get up with the kids on either Saturday or Sunday AM? (Wouldn’t ask for both)

And then occasionally work a weekend evening too after getting up at 7/730, working a few hours then back on for evening? Just trying to figure out how this all works. TIA

If you have AP work Saturday morning, Saturday night, then possibly Sunday morning, when is their 1.5 consecutive day off?

The 1.5 consecutive days off is only a rule for Cultural Care. It is not part of the Au Pair regulations and not required by any other agency.

I was with EurAP and now with APC and they all had the same rule so I don’t think it is part of the regulation.

APIA requires a 1.5 day off per week that does not have to be consecutive

What does that even mean?

I suppose?? Never thought of it that way.

So you’re technically allowed to three half days off and add them up to be 1.5 days off? Ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do DCUM moms use vocabulary like "high-powered" or High-paid"'? Who cares? That is not the crux of the issue. The issue is we are busy, all very busy. Sounds like the PP wants to promote herself to some kind of importance.

I do wish people on this forum would use dictionaries. High-powered means very busy, actually. Not necessarily very important.

Actually no.

Collins dictionary: “Someone who is high-powered or has a high-powered job has a very important and responsible job which requires a lot of ability.”
Macmillan dictionary: “important and powerful in a company or organization”
Cambridge dictionary: “(of people) very successful or having a very important job:
a high-powered attorney”
Merriam-Webster dictionary:
“Definition of high-powered
1 : having great drive, energy, or capacity : DYNAMIC
a high-powered executive
2 : having or conferring great influence
a high-powered job”

Attributes mentioned are responsibility, importance, success, power, influence, drive (ambition), etc. Nowhere does it say anything about amount of time.

Try overloaded, busy, swamped, occupied, unavailable, workhorse, eager beaver, overachiever or workaholic, depending on your opinion/attitude about what you do. Those at least all have definitions that deal with time.

Let’s say a prayer for your high-school English teacher - clearly she failed you. A high-energy job exists. A high-capacity job exists. A nurse, for example. A principal. A cop. FFS.

The PP clearly stated that (in their opinion) high-powered means busy. They also said that was the dictionary meaning. I was simply pointing out that none of the dictionaries I checked agreed.

Checking the dictionary is a skill I learned in second or third grade, fwiw. None of my English teachers in high school would have an issue with the correction; in Mr. Patterson’s class, a dictionary was integral to expanding vocabulary and using precise meaning. But thanks for the prayer for them.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do DCUM moms use vocabulary like "high-powered" or High-paid"'? Who cares? That is not the crux of the issue. The issue is we are busy, all very busy. Sounds like the PP wants to promote herself to some kind of importance.

I do wish people on this forum would use dictionaries. High-powered means very busy, actually. Not necessarily very important.

Actually no.

Collins dictionary: “Someone who is high-powered or has a high-powered job has a very important and responsible job which requires a lot of ability.”
Macmillan dictionary: “important and powerful in a company or organization”
Cambridge dictionary: “(of people) very successful or having a very important job:
a high-powered attorney”
Merriam-Webster dictionary:
“Definition of high-powered
1 : having great drive, energy, or capacity : DYNAMIC
a high-powered executive
2 : having or conferring great influence
a high-powered job”

Attributes mentioned are responsibility, importance, success, power, influence, drive (ambition), etc. Nowhere does it say anything about amount of time.

Try overloaded, busy, swamped, occupied, unavailable, workhorse, eager beaver, overachiever or workaholic, depending on your opinion/attitude about what you do. Those at least all have definitions that deal with time.

Let’s say a prayer for your high-school English teacher - clearly she failed you. A high-energy job exists. A high-capacity job exists. A nurse, for example. A principal. A cop. FFS.

The PP clearly stated that (in their opinion) high-powered means busy. They also said that was the dictionary meaning. I was simply pointing out that none of the dictionaries I checked agreed.

Checking the dictionary is a skill I learned in second or third grade, fwiw. None of my English teachers in high school would have an issue with the correction; in Mr. Patterson’s class, a dictionary was integral to expanding vocabulary and using precise meaning. But thanks for the prayer for them.

Egads, you failed to read the very dictionary you cited properly. No wonder our schools are so poor! Seek help.

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7am. Our first nightmare AP gave me serious attitude when o I moved start time from 730 to 7, but we eventually rematched over tons of other stuff.