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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they were truly wealthy they would have been able to afford preschool half day plus you. Or kept you for after school care or household management while kid was at school.  Unless you didn't want that role. [/quote]

OP here. When they first told me they were thinking about preschool, around thanksgiving, they told me they were putting their son on the wait list for part time preschool in the mornings, and that I could watch him in the afternoons (which I said I was open to). They made it clear that would be only part time though, not full time. They told me at the same time "but more than likely he just won't start preschool until next fall anyway." Then, when they gave me my notice three weeks ago, they said "the preschool told us the only openings they had were full time, and we decided to go for it."

I know they are wealthy. They own three large luxury-brand vehicles, two of which were replaced with brand new models in the past year. They own three vineyards and their own nationally distributed brand of wine (this was all inherited by them). Their house is located in a very upscale and sought after neighborhood and is worth /at least/ a million dollars. Every single day they get boxes in the mail full of merchandise MB bought online from places like j.crew, and anthropologie, coach, etc. Once she left a box out that she had just opened up with the packing slip on top and I had a peek. She spent over $200 on a single throw blanket :/

I should also mention that they never paid me for sick days or even days they didn't use me because they were traveling, etc. The last two families I worked with always did, and we never had a contract or anything, so I was pretty shocked when this family just nonchalantly shrugged it off when I brought it up after their first vacation, three months after I began working with them. In hindsight I should've just quit right then, but I decided to stick with them...now obviously I wish I had quit sooner!

Clearly, they /could/ have afforded to treat me properly, they just chose not to.

I will say that I've often wondered if they just don't understand what it's like living on so little money, and that's why it never occurred to them to be more generous? Like, somehow they honestly thought they were being generous just by employing me at all and didn't realize just how royally they were screwing me over? Ehh regardless I can tell you all that I am extremely glad to be done with them. My new NF has already written up a contract including guaranteed hours, vacation pay, etc, and they told me they gave their last nanny 1-2 weeks salary for Xmas so hopefully my woes are behind me :)[/quote]

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