Reply to Do you talk to you nanny about behavior or just look for someone else?

Forum Index » Employer Issues

Reply to "Do you talk to you nanny about behavior or just look for someone else?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Here is our situation: we have had our nanny for a year and a half. My kids adore her. She is great with the children and responsible. However, she has decided to go to school at nova and better herself. We have been very supportive and think it is great. However, we are noticing more and more that we are no longer a priority. She is constantly asking for time off. We give her two weeks paid vacation and last year she used both weeks and asked for another unpaid. Reluctantly, we were able to give her 4 days unpaid that she requested. She has been back to work for three weeks and is already asking for a week off in the beginning of March. I realize that her vacation days do restart in January. However, she just came back from her vacation. And, she also is asking for some additional half  days in the next coming weeks to study. In Addition, her classes started in January and she signed up for classes 30 mins after she leaves us. So, we no longer have any flexibility for her to stay even 15 mins late. When she talked to us about her schedule, she said her classes would start at 7. (Which gave us some flexibility) and, last semester they did start at 7. However, this time she decided to take earlier classes and did not tell us at all. (Until after they started) I think I hit the roof this morning when she asked for additional gas money because she was driving further to go to school. I told her that we give her gas money to take the children to school and play dates.

Sadly, her classes and asking for so much time off all together are making me think at she may not be a good fit anymore. I know that we are no longer a priority and I don't think there is anyway to change that aspect. I think she wants to work part time and get full time pay. Whenever I  have discussed with her that we may not be able to accommodate her request for time off because it is eating up my vacation, she doesn't seem to understand. (Or care)   Just because I ask for days off at my job, it isn't always approved. Should I talk to her about this or just start looking for someone else?[/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