Reply to My employers don't know when my job will end.

Forum Index » General Discussion

Reply to "My employers don't know when my job will end."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does your contract stipulate how much notice they have to give you? If so, then you have at least that much time left, If you want more notice than stipulated, you need to talk to them about that. It wouldn't be cool to just set your own end date and not tell them.[/quote]

She asked them when her end date would be and they failed to tell her. She has every right to set her own end date in that case. [/quote]

Maybe, but going about it in a passive-aggressive way could cost her a reference and having her current employers help her find a new job for the summer might make the whole process easier too.  June is still three months away and with snow days, etc. her employers may genuinely not know.  I'd raise it again.  Don't raise it in passing - ask for a meeting to talk about transition issues and let your employers know you can't afford to be without pay for several months so you need to plan.  Then ask them what they are thinking and propose a few tentative dates (last day of school, Monday following, etc.) for your last day.  What are they doing for childcare once school is out?  I think your answer is probably wrapped up somewhere in there.  [/quote]

I don't think it would be passive aggressive for OP to set the end date herself, and give them plenty of notice. If she finds a job set to start the week after school ends, and goes to her bosses with 30 days plus of notice of when she'll be leaving, I don't think there is anything wrong with that. She can certainly raise the question again, but she really doesn't need to give them all the power here. [/quote]

I don't really see how having another conversation with her employers is "giving them all the power?"  She doesn't have to leave it to them to set a date at last minute at their absolute convenience but having a respectful conversation about what suits both parties best and proposing mutually agreeable solutions is professional and courteous.   OP didn't say the context in which she asked but with the end of school still three months away, it's not crazy that her MB just might not know as yet.  After all, if it's as simple as the last day of school isn't that something the family would have known when they executed the contract?    OP hasn't said but I suspect the date for the family hinges on something else (arrival of an au pair, start of camp, date of a move?) so arbitrarily picking a date seems premature and leaving them in the lurch without at least having a professional conversation about ithe situation and everyone's needs could compromise her reference from them.  However, there is nothing wrong with her proposing a working date in that conversation, to be used unless the parties agree to something different before she finds a new job.

I'll add, when we interviewed nannies, we discovered quickly that [b]the best candidates were the ones whose current employers were happy to provide a pre-interview reference of the nanny by phone/conduct a screening call of us[/b], and we started to only interview nannies in that category.  Rather than giving the family all the power, I think OP would actually have a lot to gain from having her MB understand her difficulty and get on board with coming up with a mutually agreeable solution - which includes helping her find a new job.[/quote]

This is not typical, and you eliminated candidates based on this, you severely limited your pool. I consider myself to be a professional nanny, and as such I conduct my job search in a safe and professional manner. I do not give my references contact information to each and every job that I apply to. How unsafe and annoying that would be. I will give references to families that I have spoken to on the phone (and know they actually exist) on rare occasion and only if I really want the job, but otherwise I do not give out reference information until I've had an in person interview, have met the children, and I think there is a good chance I will be offered and will accept the job. A nanny that is careless with her references private contact info has bad judgement, in my opinion. The only way I can see what you're saying being appropriate is if the family is helping to find their nanny a new job, and they made the first contact with you. [/quote]

It is very common in our area (upper NW DC) that families post for their departing nannies on neighborhood and other list serves and list themselves as a point of contact as well as the nanny.  Many were willing and volunteered to speak on the nanny's behalf in their posting and some insisted on doing screening interviews for the nanny.  We interviewed about 20 candidates total and found the 10-12 best ones this way - including the terrific nanny we hired who has been with us for two years.  It may not be typical but it worked well for us and I see lots of similar postings on our neighborhood list serve now.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics