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[quote=Anonymous]We have a nanny who has worked with us for almost 2 years who works for us full-time. We really like and trust her, however, things have not been so great recently.

She took a two-week vacation months ago (in addition to paid sick days and holidays, we give her a paid two-week time off annually.)

Since both DH and I work, we had to find backup childcare while she was gone. Unexpectedly though, our daughter really loved it there. My daughter starts school in a few months and our (verbal) commitment to our nanny was to have her work for us until DD starts school. We didn't think it was fair to let the nanny go only because she took a vacation and things changed upon her return, so we decided to keep her and have her help us out in the mornings for a couple hours. We are, however, paying her full-time (30 hours) even though she only really works 6 hours a week for us because we wanted to honor our commitment.

Recently though, she has been a bit unpleasant. Even though she works only a couple hours a day, she still asks if she could leave early for a variety of reasons (her husband wants to meet her at the mall because they need to buy something, etc.).

I had a business trip this week in a different city that was a few hours away so we asked her to come for a couple hours in the mornings and evenings for 3 days. Today before I left, she told me she couldn't make it tomorrow morning, but could make it in the evening. I was fine with this, but when I returned this evening, she [b]nonchalantly[/b] said she could no longer make it the entire day tomorrow because she realized she has an optometrist appointment that she almost forgot about.

This was really off-putting. I feel we've been really good employers, but we haven't been getting fair treatment from her recently, considering we're paying her FT for minimal PT work.

I'm thinking of just letting her go. We don't have a contract, but for the sake of our relationship, I also want to just pay some severance, but at the same time, I'm really turned off by this bad work ethic. If I had an appointment that I forgot about, that would be no one else's fault but myself, so the most reasonable thing to do is to cancel/move this appointment to a different day rather than cancelling on your employer.[/quote]

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