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[quote=Anonymous]The nanny told me this morning that because she wants to vote next Tuesday she needs to either come late or I need to come home early so she can leave early. Of course it's completely reasonable that she wants to vote but the thing is her normal end time is 5pm and the polls close at 7pm which gives her 2 hours to get there when she leaves my house. She just doesn't want to go then because it will be more crowded.  She's in general very flexible for me and I really try to reciprocate as much as I can but I have 2 issues with this. 1 is that DH and I are both physicians and neither have ANY flexibility in our work schedules just 1 week in advance. I can't cancel patients who made appointments a month ago because the nanny wants to leave early to vote. My mom is usually my back and because her work schedule is much more flexible and she really does a ton to help the nanny and has taken days off to help her out (and I don't just mean when she had planned vacation) even at the last minute. I just hate asking my mom to help in this instance for something she CAN do after work. The other issue I have is the way she brought it up. She didn't ask me. She just told me she needed to either come late or I needed to come home early. If she had a doctors appointment or something else that HAD to be done during work hours it wouldn't bother me but I just don't think "I don't want to go when it's crowded" is a good enough reason for her to not ask.

So, is it reasonable for me to say "If you want to go during the day you have to take the children with you, otherwise you have to go after I get home at 5pm"?[/quote]

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