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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. We didn't hire her expecting we'd later find a nanny speaking the target language. We honestly figured the only way that would happen would be moving to an au pair, which we are not able to do for at least a couple more years. So there wasn't any reason to say "by the way, we'll be looking for [language] nanny and will replace you once we find one" because that wasn't the plan.

To the "poor form" PP, there are MANY ways I could have handled this that would have REALLY been poor form. 1. Good morning, you're fired, take good care of the kids today! 2. You're fired, get your things and go now. 3. You're fired, and remember how in the contract it says you have to pay us back any extra vacation time you've taken but not yet accrued? Well, you're 33 hours over so we'll deduct that from your last check. I could go on. Would it have been ideal to tell her Friday? Yes, but I had nothing to tell her.

The new nanny is already waiting longer than she wants to start, and I have to balance potentially losing a rare find against managing existing nanny's feelings. I genuinely did want to tell existing nanny ASAP when we were certain because it would feel extremely duplicitous to work with her all week knowing she would be terminated and acting like all was well.

She's disappointed, I get it, but now I am likewise disappointed in her. Unfortunate to end this way. [/quote]

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