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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] However, we always have AP work on NYE (and note this during matching) because we love to go out on NYE.

[b]One of the great benefits of having an AP. [/b] [/quote]

[quote]I've always had my au pair work on NYE but in "shifts." We typically go out to a nice dinner with friends and are home by 11, watch the ball drop on TV or fall asleep. The AP goes out around 11 and parties into the new year. [/quote]

[quote]I'm the host who has her AP work early on NYE and [b]she's free to go out around 11. I actually think that's pretty nice of us.[/b] We would love to be out and celebrate into the new year but we're actually giving her the more desirable time slot.[/quote]

God you people are horrible! Any time anyone questions whether the Au Pair program is anything more than cheap labor, you all go on and on about how the money is just a stipend but its really a "cultural exchange." Yet when its actually time to allow her to experience the culture, you can't because you like going out on NYE so she has to work. Selfish!! You should at least pay her at a rate on par with what others are charging that night, minimum $20/hour.[/quote]

I wouldn't have phrased it quite as harshly as the PP, but I agree. Many of you - some on this thread, others elsewhere - seem to be missing the point of the AP program entirely and remain 100% obsessed with how much work you can milk out of these poor girls.[/quote]

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