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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]what is the right answer in this situation? Our kids are in school. We pay our nanny to work several hours before she picks them up, and she has chores like grocery shopping and laundry. The chores don’t always take up all of her agreed hours, but obviously we pay her anyway. One day, [b]she had finished her chores[/b] and[b] left the house in our car an hour before she had to get the kids[/b]. I texted her to [b]ask her to do something at the house[/b], and she said that she had gone out and[b] she would do it when she got back with the kids.[/b]  I don’t know where she was,  but there would be no reason for her to be so far away that she couldn’t get back and do what I asked before picking up the kids at school about 10 minutes from the house (unless she was doing a personal errand).  I don’t mind if she goes out to grab lunch or whatever if she doesn’t have anything to do, but is it unfair of me to expect that she go back and do what I asked her to do when she is on the clock?[/quote]

I put some of the most important parts in bold, OP. 
She finished her chores. She thought she had an hour of time to run out and do something. 
She took your car. That means she planned on doing her task, and going straight to pick up your kids. She was also planning ahead in case of traffic. 
What did you ask her to do? Was it something that needed to be done right at that instant, or could it have been done in an hour when she was back at the house?
Did you specify that you wanted it done right then and there? It sounds like you asked her to (for example) take some chicken out of the freezer, and she said she'd do it when she got back. Not a big deal, IMO.

Why can't she run a personal errand if she's finished all of her chores and has an hour free? 
You don't say how many hours/day and days/week she works, but maybe she needed to get to a bank or post office that has limited hours? Maybe she had a bad headache and needed to run to the store to get medicine?

Yes, it's unfair of you to expect her to sit at your house the entire time if she's finished everything. [/quote]

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