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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=nannydebsays]Op, my understanding of guaranteed hours is as follows:

Employers are free to take however much vacation they choose to take. Nanny is paid full wages 52 weeks a year. Nanny remains willing to come to work when employers are on "extra" vacation time to do chores related to her job description that would be harder to accomplish when the children are with her.

Their extra vacation is not YOUR vacation. The only thing I would suggest you offer to your employers is this: "Are there chores related to Max that you would like me to do while you are gone? Here are some things I thought of: going through and organizing/ cleaning all his toys, going through his clothes and storing things that he has outgrown, etc."

My employers recently took a week vacation. I spent about 25 hours cleaning equipment their newborn will need after birth, doing 10 loads of laundry, running an emergency errand, and grocery shopping on Friday.[/quote]

How did you spend 25 hours cleaning some things for the baby? 10 loads of laundry??? Either you did REALLY tiny loads and wasted tons of water or the family is totally gross and lets 10 loads stack up. And then grocery shopping? So sounds like most of that 25 hours was waiting for laundry to run a cycle, so lots of tv watching right? Sounds exactly like a vacation for a nanny.[/quote]

So you would use your vacation to run lots of laundry, sterilize baby equipment and do grocery shopping?  Lovely for you.  Personally, I stay home and relax during my vacation, and 25 hours of work in my employer's house during the week wouldn't be vacation, although it would be easier than trying to do the tasks while the kids are there.  Oh, and 10 loads are easy when you do winter coats, stuffed animals, drapes and/or curtains in the kids' room or toy room, lingerie bags with small toys, etc.  I can do 15 loads easily when my NF goes on vacation, because that's when I clean the things that don't get done every week, in addition to the normal things.  Oh, and my NFs never care when I run lots of laundry, because it means that things are clean and they don't have to so it themselves...[/quote]

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