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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP Here: So let me clarify a couple of things. This family was 1 hour away. I got there a little bit earlier then I anticipated. I was ONLY 10 minutes early, which I always find is professional. I don't see how I am "immature". I made a 1 hour drive for this interview. She asked if I could come at 3pm and I arrived at 2:50pm. I rang the door bell two times and then knocked the third time. After no one answered all three times, I called her cellphone. When she answered, I just said "Hi, it's K. I am at your front door and I don't know if you heard me ring the doorbell"....to which she responded "Oh yes..the kids are in the basement and I am finishing up a phone call with my mom, I will be down in 5 minutes.". She CLEARLY heard be ringing and knocking and chose to ignore me. She could have come down and at least let me in. I would have gladly waited INSIDE the doorway while she finished a conversation. I found it VERY rude to just expect me to wait outside for 5 minutes in the rain. It's been raining here for 2 days..so yes she knew it was raining. I was not going to walk back to my car, wait in my car and then come back. This just proved to me that she was not the type of MB I would want to work for. Yes, I did ignore her two phone calls because I was too busy venting on the phone to my friend who is also a nanny. She left me a VM with the second call saying "I don't understand why you left...you just had to wait on the porch for 10 minutes. Please call me back and let me know if you'd like to come back."....So "5 minutes" was actually 10 minutes. When I got home, I sent her an email saying that I did not appreciate having to wait on her front porch and that I was no longer interested in the job.

To the people saying I am "immature", you really have no justification for that at all. Having been a nanny for 7 years now, I do not waste my time on families like this which is why, I have never had to come on here and complain about a MB like 90% of the nannies on here do. I pick my families VERY specifically and have been lucky to work for GREAT families. [/quote]

I'm a happily employed nanny, and I think you are...wrong.

I do a lot of on-call work on the weekends, saving up money for graduate school, and am often 10 minutes early for the same reason as you: I don't want to be late, so I give myself a little extra time and end up arriving ahead of schedule. Like you, I usually ring the doorbell for the first time between 5-8min. ahead of my scheduled appointment (whether it's work or an interview) and often find myself waiting outside until the official time. But while I do ring the doorbell a few times in the minutes following, and knock a couple of times, I won't ever call a parent to check in until our scheduled appointment time has come and passed. If you had assumed, when you first rang and got no answer, that she was busy getting out of the shower, or changing a dirty diaper, or finishing up a quick toy clean-up because she wanted to make a good impression, and had gone back to your car (or ducked out of the rain), and then come back to ring again at the time she was expecting you, absolutely nothing would have been wrong with this event. I think you made this a problem, not the MB, by trying to rush your appointment.[/quote]

OP Here: By the time I called her, it was 4 minutes to 3:00. I don't think I should have went to my car for 4 minutes. I always arrive 5-10 minutes early for interviews and have NEVER had this issue. This was more of a household manager position as the kids are 12 & 10 so there was no diapers being changed, etc. I would have understood if she was on a work call but this was a call with her mom and she HEARD me ring and knock. You just don't ignore someone at your door because they are FOUR MINUTES early.[/quote]

What if she was actually naked, just getting out of the shower, and didn't want to say that so instead she said she was finishing up a phone call and would be right down? You just seem very inflexible and immature, and to exhibit complete disinterest in showing any kind of attempt at being understanding. I think she's well rid of you, tbh.[/quote]

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