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[quote=Anonymous]Our newly hired nanny has turned out to be a total flake.  Despite seeking out our position because she said she wanted full time work, she now says she can't handle working full time and finishing her degree online at the same time.  In the 3.5 weeks she's worked for us, she took two sick days for strep throat, which we feel is legitimate.  Then this week she called in sick again, only to quit on us -- VIA TEXT -- that same night.  She's agreed to stay on until we find a replacement, which we are trying to do as fast as we can.  She agrees that she's totally in the wrong and nothing about the job is anything but what we told her it would be; she just bit off more than she could chew.  We pay her a great wage, plus overtime, and offered her 3 paid sick days (since she was only supposed to be working for us for 7 months).  While we think the first two sick days were legit for the strep, the third was essentially a mental health day, and we're inclined not to pay her for it, especially since she's quitting on us and leaving us in the lurch.

Are we being unfair?  We strive to treat our employees as we'd want to be treated, but I honestly can't imagine my employer putting up with shenanigans like this. We've had to take time off to cover her absences and pay for temporary child care, to say nothing of the fact that our 2 year old has just warmed up to her and now we have to find someone new and go through the process all over again.  The whole thing just stinks. And did I mention she got two flat tires on our car "hitting a pothole" that cost us $400? (Which we paid for, of course.)[/quote]

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