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[quote=Anonymous]First time poster here-- I have been working for a family for the last 7 months and I am almost at my breaking point. They advertised for a "kind, flexible, caring nanny" and I thought "hay! I'm all of those things!" I ended up getting the job and am payed pretty well. We discussed my hours and I agreed to an approximate 50 hour work week. The children are 11 months and two and a half. Recently I have been leaving work an average 1.5-2 hours later than I am supposed to and working 58-64 hours per week. That is an entire extra day of work for most people. To me, flexibile means like coming in a little bit early sometimes and leaving a little bit late other times. I am flexible every morning as they change my start time literally by 5 minutes some mornings (6:00,6:25,6:40,6:15). I don't believe being flexible means them coming home late every evening. I am starting to feel disrespected, exhausted, overworked, under appreciated, and lots of negative emotions in between. I am not even getting apologies when they come home late now. I have missed planned dinners, birthday parties, etc. and let this all be known.

I have had a sit down discussion with her once where I explained to her that it was really hard for me to make any plans after work as I never can count on what time I'll actually be leaving and even suggested they have another nanny come from 5 o'clock to whenever they need her. No attempts to change this behavior have been made. 
 
What can I say this time around to make my discussion more meaningful? I'm not married and do not have children of my own but my free time is important to me and I want that to come across.[/quote]

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