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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When exactly do you all expect her to let you know? I wake 2 hours before I have to be at work. Even if I decide the moment I wake that I'm not going in, it usually takes 30 minutes to get a hold of my bosses (2 families), so unless I knew the night before, they get a max of an hour and a half notice. If your nanny lives close she probably has even less time to get a message to you. Letting someone go 2 weeks before the holidays because they were sick is deplorable. [/quote]

OP again:  I dont know why I bother answering posts to nannies who are the crusaders of bad nanny behavior and get thrown big girl words at me like deplorable. I should have said MBs only .

I asked specifically  - should I keep on looking??? As in, it took me a while to find this person that I need her to stay on through the holidays since I absolutely hate to have my son being handed off to different people but.  I take finding the right person very seriously PP. And while I understand anyone can get sick (just bad luck) a week into a job, you also have to wonder if its' weather. I still have to work today, guess who pays the nanny.

Side bar thought:  This is one of the few areas in the country that there is barely anything on the ground and the $20/ hr person wants to get compensated for not coming in to work when millions of others find a way to do so.

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PP's point was very valid OP.  You sound like a gem.[/quote]

No, it wasn't valid.  The PP said "Letting someone go 2 weeks before the holidays because they were sick is deplorable."  Nowhere did the OP say she was immediately letting the nanny go.  Nannies that are posting here, you really and truly think that someone texting "I'm not feeling well today, I'm so sorry I'm not going to make it in!" an hour before your start time on your sixth day at work while you're in a trial period should make an employer feel secure in your commitment?  [/quote]

What do you suggest she ought to have done? You can say she should have called not texted, but in my experiences, most employers arent checking their phone hours before they have to be up. And lets just ignore the rest of what PP said that makes perfect sense and focus on what you didn't like, and proceed to call it invalid. [/quote]

The OP was clearly responding to the use of the word deplorable to sum up the PP's point.  The rest of it may have been totally valid, but when you use inflammatory language people tend not to hear you - they focus on the fact that you've incorrectly insulted them.

I've described twice now what I would like to see my nanny do if they truly had to call out on the Monday after they started.  As I said, usually you start to feel sick the day before.  It would have been terrific if she had texted on Sunday with a warning that she may be coming down with something.  Then Monday morning, as soon as she woke up, call and explain and be very apologetic.  Offer to come in even so to show that you are committed.  Even if she truly, as I said, didn't feel sick Sunday night and woke up feeling horrible, calling and sincerely apologizing would be completely fine.  It's not the timing so much as the execution.  And no one has said "let her go immediately!!"  Everyone has said it's not a good sign.  And it's not, particularly when combined with some other issues OP is not all that pleased with after just one week.[/quote]

Deplorable is inflammatory now? How about lazy, entitled, the assumption that we're all uneducated, etc? I didn't call OP any names. I said letting someone go 2 weeks before the holidays is deplorable ie. worthy of strong condemnation. You don't think it would be? I also never said that is what OP said she would do. I stated my opinion that to do so, and OP seemed to be considering it, would be pretty awful. [/quote]

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