Please help!!
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Anonymous
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I'm so sorry. You should quit if you can manage it at all. There are ways to make some money until you find another full-time position. Places like metroparentrelief could use you for their intermittent support until you find something right.
There is no excuse for their behavior at all. None. (I'm an MB.) Truly appalling. Give yourself the satisfaction of quitting! |
Anonymous
| OP, I can't believe they expected to pay you less. Wow. These people sound like real winners! |
Anonymous
| cash that check ASAP so they don't cancel it! |
Anonymous
| Yes 7 AM yesterday to 2 AM today. And I deposited the check through the ATM on my way home! |
Anonymous
Yikes I would have cashed it thru their bank and not run the risk of them stopping payment and it affecting your account. Although if they stop payment I'd sue in small claims |
Anonymous
| I'm an MB and agree this is one of the craziest things I've ever heard. You're definitely justified in quitting today. Hell, I wouldn't blame you if you just didn't show up on Monday. Let them see how it feels when someone doesn't arrive when they're supposed to. Wow. I just cannot imagine in a million years having our nanny tell me she has plans and then just not going home. Wow. Rude is just an insufficient word to describe this. |
Anonymous
We use the same bank. Not literally the same location, but the same company. If they did cancel the check, you can bet the next time they see my face, it will be in court. I've worked and quit some bad jobs before, and never once have I felt so resentful. |
Anonymous
| I love you- you are strong! Now finish it off and quit before they fire you! |
Anonymous
| OP, you haven't been there long enough to even matter. No need for you to even tell them you quit, just don't show up and have nothing further to do with them. If they stop payment on check, take them to court and report them to wage and labor board. Also, put out the word about them via the nanny underground. |
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If they fire you, file for unemployment, and offer copies of the OT check and your itemized charges list as evidence that they let you go after you didn't let them use you.
If you can, quit, and if anyone asks why, you can say there was an issue with the parents demanding last minute OT that you were forced to fulfill (despite having your own plans) because they refused to come home. |
Anonymous
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That just sucks, I'm sorry.
Who does that? Seriously, what disrespectful people who obviously don't care about you or their children. |
Anonymous
| Yes, quit. It has only been 2 weeks, so you don't lose anything by leaving now (no way would you get a good reference, it is not long enough to show a big gap in your employment, etc). |
Anonymous
OP, no one who hears about this would fault you for quitting! No need to use them for a reference, and in fact you could help others out by letting people know that they do as they please and do not think about their nanny/babysitters. If anyone will get a bad rap from this, it will be them. Glad they paid for your extra time, but seriously, do as another person said and QUIT before they can fire you! Send out an email now, and then do a phone call in a little bit. That way if they try to fire you on the phone, you have already quit through email and have that as written proof (print out the email with a date and time stamp on it as well). |
Anonymous
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I would also document everything that they had said they would do and actual events that happened.
For example, you said you could not stay late (by 4 hours, list hours, was that maybe until 8pm they wanted you?) but could only stay until 4pm. Say they agreed to this. Say they said they would be a little bit late that morning, but then that they did not show up until 2am. 2am is even later than what they originally wanted from you so they definitely have no excuse. |
Anonymous
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From an MB/DB perspective, what would be the right thing to say in this instance I explain my short time with this family and not sound like I'm bad mouthing them?
"I was often needed to stay hours late with no notice, and my schedule simply couldn't accommodate the extra time." Something like that? I've had a string of bad luck lately...my long term job ended in September when the kids began school full time. I had accepted a new job, but then at the last minute had to decline, as I found out DB was not willing to obey the law and pay taxes. That caused some desperation, as money is a bit tight right now, and the jobs I've accepted since then have been so bad. One MB had an outrageous and explosive temper that caused me to quit, and the other family did not pay me two weeks in a row, which meant I had to quit that job, too. It's starting to reflect badly on me. |