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[quote=Anonymous]This is going to be a long post so I apologize in advance. I posted here a couple of weeks ago about my wonderful nanny who had a lot of family issues going on and had called in to work at the last minute several times.  She hasn't called in for a couple of weeks and we had a really good talk yesterday that she initiated because she didn't want me to think she didn't take this job seriously.  She let me know that she really loves all of us and she apologized for letting her issues get in the way.

This morning, 40 minutes before she was supposed to be here, she called that her mother was in the hospital and she couldn't come (same thing happened a few weeks ago but then she called in the day before). As I said in my last post, we go through an agency so most of the time they can find a back up for me the night before.  This time, because it was 7am, they couldn't find anyone for me until noon.

We have actually been out of town until last night so I had taken today off of work so that I could take care of some things. I had to cancel a couple of non-urgent appointments but nothing that was a big deal. I hadn't told the nanny yet that I wasn't working today though so she didn't know.  Unfortunately, because of the nature of my job I CAN'T call in to work.  If I miss work, I could lose my job.  I don't think the nanny is really aware of this and so after this morning I planned to sit down with her again and explain that I HAVE to go to work and since we have no family in the area I have no backup if she can't make it at the last minute.  I was going to ask if in the future she could at least come in for a few hours until we can make other arrangements.

Now I got a text from her saying her mother had a heart attack and I don't know what to say.  I don't want to be the mean boss who says even under extenuating circumstances you have to come to work but I can't risk losing my job.  As I also said in my previous post, she is the best nanny we've ever had and I really don't want to lose her.  We are only going to be living here for 2 more months and then she plans to move with us.  When we move we will have tons of family around to help in an emergency situation.

So now I don't know what to do.  Find someone new for the next 2 months which won't be good for my kids since they love her (and I'd have to find someone else after we move) or talk to her about this and come across as a mean selfish person?[/quote]

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