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[quote=Anonymous]I think we all have quite a few strange experiences. My one NF says I could probably write a book. My strangest interview experience was when I arrived 5 minutes early to the interview, and only the little boy and his grandmother (who spoke no English) were home. The parents had both left to run errands. They didn't forget about the interview, but I guess thought they could be back before I would get there? The grandmother had no idea what was going on, but she let me in the house, and I just sat on the couch. The little boy kept asking me to come look at his bedroom, but I didn't feel comfortable.

As for the strangest job experience: I agreed to work one day a week for four hours for a family who had four kids. I agreed to a lower rate because the older kids would be in school & the newborn with his mother, so I would only have to take care of one three year old. The first day that I arrived the mother refused to acknowledge my presence. I asked her to text me her phone number since we had been communicating through email, and she never did. She would just stare at me if we were in the same room.

The kids were 5, 4, 3 and 5 weeks, and ALL of them were in diapers during the day. I'm assuming that the older two were capable of using the potty because they were in school, but they wore diapers at home, and I was only allowed to change the diapers if they had pooped. They were essentially sitting in wet diapers from the middle of the night until the afternoon if they hadn't pooped.

The home was really strange as well. It looked like they had just moved in, but I knew through a quick search that they had lived there for 10 years. It was a huge house with multiple living and dining rooms, but only two of the rooms had furniture in them. The kids rooms were just their beds, and the playroom looked like it was barely touched.

It was sort of bizarre, so I decided not to come back after the first experience. They were so confused as to why I didn't want to work for them.  
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