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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm a previous nanny employer and I will admit that we did this to our very first nanny. I really and truly had zero idea of what having a nanny meant and what it was like for the nanny herself. We did have a contract that said two weeks notice, and it also said that either side could terminate for any reason in the first month.

Two weeks in, I knew it wasn't working. We had joined a share with a family about a mile away for our almost 1yo to be with two other girls who were 4 and 5. The nanny didn't drive, so every day she spent the morning at our house and then walked our daughter to the other house for the afternoon. It was terrible weather those two weeks, so they would have to walk 20 mins in the pouring rain and then freezing cold. And then she would arrive at the older girls' house into an established share and the big girls we're mean to her and the nanny was having trouble incorporating a 1yo into their established routine. It just became clear early on that it wasn't working.

Three weeks in, I got the daycare spot I wanted. I called the nanny and told her we'd finish out the week but that it really wasn't working and that was that. It didn't occur to me to think about severance at all. First I didn't know that was something done, but also it had only been three weeks and we were within our initial termination period, so I guess if I had thought she would just get right back to her job search.

I tell this story not to say that your employers didn't do anything wrong. I truly don't know how you should handle a very short employment period. But just to help you not be so angry at them -  maybe they're not screwing you on purpose. This is why nannying and employing a nanny is so difficult - there is no standard template for how to do these things. It's actually the #1 reason we never went back to a nanny. We were really flying without any guidance at all and it was scary. [/quote]

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