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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you should have told her last Friday.  That would have given her the weekend to process things and not have the feelings be so raw.

It's hard to be fired and then be expected to show up to work the next day.  [/quote]

Agree that would have been ideal, but we didn't know until today and I wanted to tell her as soon as we knew. [/quote]

+1 to this PP, telling her you're letting her go with /barely/ two weeks notice and expecting her to show up the next day is extremely insensitive. You say she is handling this unprofessionally, but I say YOU as her MB handled this unprofessionally:

This nonsense about "we didn't know until today" is ridiculous. Sure, maybe you found and met this person Sunday and wanted to tell nanny in person and didn't get confirmation about new nanny accepting the job until Monday, but that is no excuse. Regardless of when new nanny says she wants to start, it would have been EXTREMELY easy for you to say "you can start in two weeks," thereby allowing your current nanny to work until this Friday, at which point you could've THEN given her notice (one week more to work, one week off paid). That would've allowed her the weekend to process the change, and get a jump start on her job search, before showing up Monday. I don't care whatever excuse you may have about "new nanny wanted to start right away," it is standard for most jobs to have a week or two wait time before starting after accepting the position, and any decent nanny will understand that you want to give old nanny two weeks notice (honestly it would be a red flag for me if a family hired me and let their previous nanny go without sufficient notice).

Poor form, OP. [/quote]

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