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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter's sitter has a "main family" for whom she does drop-off and pick-up of their two kids every day to/from preschool & daycare, respectively.  This sitter has been our primary back-up sitter - date nights and a fair amount of weekday coverage, albeit irregular - for the last 2.5 years since DD was an infant.  Last summer, she watched DD pretty regularly (maybe twice a week for a couple months) and I asked her if she could watch DD this summer again.  She told me yes, she's free outside of her DO/PU schedule, BUT that if either of the other family's kids gets sick, she needs to watch them and cancel on me.

Am I crazy to think 'hell no'?  She's supposed to watch my kid, other kid gets sick, so she cancels on me on the morning of and that's somehow okay?  And I would be really surprised if the other MB is paying her hourly for all the hours the sitter is on call in the event of illness; if she could afford this, the baby would be with the sitter, not in daycare.  My guess is that other MB is either paying her a fixed sum (maybe $100?) to be on call for the 25 hours weekly between drop-off and pick-up.

I'm selfishly upset for myself because this means we've just lost our longest-standing caregiver, which sucks for DD.  I admit that this is my primary concern, but I'm also upset for the sitter because I'm pretty sure she's leaving money on the table, both by probably not being compensated enough by this other MB and getting fewer other jobs because no one wants a sitter who will cancel at the last minute for of all things another family.  At the same time, I've heard her say on multiple occasions how she really needs to make more money.  [/quote]

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