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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a nanny and I say follow your instincts.  If it doesn't feel right to you - it isn't right.  HOWEVER you did contract the nanny for the week and should compensate her.  [/quote]

I am the PP who said she should not have to bother paying for the rest of the week.  My reasoning is that first, the employer is going to be out money for this either because she will have to hire another caregiver last minute or because she will be unable to work, second, this is not a nanny she wants to employ ever again, so keeping her happy does not need to be a priority, and third but most important, this nanny was both unprofessional (showing up late for a first-time job with an infant she has never cared for)  and deceptive (if she does not have experience with a reflux newborn, she should have either made that clear upfront and gotten as much information from the mom as possible so that she and the child could have a successful day together or she should have researched reflux on her own).

If the nanny had been on time (or preferably early for a first day). And if she had either been up to the tasks of the day or had gone out of her way to get information from the mom to enable her to fulfill those tasks, then I would feel differently.  Part of being a successful nanny in an unregulated industry is knowing your strengths and weaknesses.  This nanny obviously knows nothing about reflux at all (even a basic knowledge tells you that you do not bounce reflux babies up and down and they are often very difficult to get to sleep because they need to sleep upright and are in constant pain).  If the nanny was not familiar with these needs, it was her responsibility to educate herself by research or by talking to the mom or to tell the mom upfront so that the mom could decide what level of experience she needed for her child.  Instead, the nanny simply referred to her references of working with infants and allow the mom to believe that that meant she was going to be able to care for an infant with a medical condition as well as typical infants..

I have never cared for a child with asbergers and if someone hired me to do so, I would regarded as a learning situation for me and I would make very clear to everyone involved what my level of expertise was (or rather wasn't).[/quote]

I don't agree at all with this. The nanny should be paid for the entire week. I'm sure she is really counting on this income if she interviewed and gave you references for a 1 week job. I mean who actually takes a 1 week job anyway? It's only 4 more days. Please just go to work and get over yourself.

OP here- I don't know why I am biting but I am. I didn't write the above post. I didn't write anything but a nervous plea for some advice. I didn't weight in about what she does or doesn't deserve. So telling me to "get over myself" is a reflection on you and not me. I am not so high and mighty in my head as a mother. In fact I'm pretty much the opposite, scared shitless that I'm somehow going to mess up very badly for very unimportant reasons. I should have probably mentioned that my job is at a very flexible place. My colleagues regularly work from home with no notice. I've never done that. Or never worked from home ever actually. If the snark made you feel better for some reason, then good- but there are real people on the ends of these posts that don't need it, FYI

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