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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My nanny texted me 10 minutes before she was supposed to be here at 7 a.m. to tell me she couldn't make it in because she was too ill.  I had to cancel my very important meeting at work and it made me look bad with my employer.  She informed me two days earlier that she was sick and I gave her two days off without pay, but expected her on Monday since she had the whole week end to get better.

I feel that I can't count on her, this just can't happen again because my job is too important.

I appreciate that she gets up very early to be here and is often here even earlier on a moment's notice. She has been flexible for me in the past. I pay her by the hour to the penny and do not offer her any type of guaranteed wage, however, I don't think there is any excuse for her giving me 10 minutes notice for being sick.

Should I let her go, or am I being unreasonable?

Please be brutally honest, I can take it.  Thanks so much.

Bernadette[/quote]

I think that if you have such an important job and you count on your nanny to be there at a moments notice, that you should be paying some kind of guaranteed hours and give her a few sick days each year.

Did you tell her that you had an important meeting this morning BEFORE the weekend, that you would need to know at least the night before if she couldn't come in, so that you could make other plans for the kids? Don't you have any kind of backup care set in place? I know 10 minutes is not much time to deal with that, but do you at least have something set up that you can call the night before or an hour or so before you need someone? You really need something like this, this is not her responsibility but yours.

As for calling in late, that was messed up, but there is a chance that if she is sick that she might not have been able to call before then (so tired she slept through alarm, was busy being sick into the toilet, etc). Even with calling in that morning, if someone gets up and gets to work 60-90 minutes later, it can be very short notice anyways if you don't know the night before that you will be sick enough that you have to call in.

I think the way you are acting is going overboard considering how great she has been in the past. This is one incident, not really something that I would fire someone over, but maybe give a warning that you need as much notice as possible, learn to mention when you have an important meeting and you really need her to be on time that day, or mention ahead she can't make it etc. [/quote]

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