Reply to Share question

Forum Index » General Discussion

Reply to "Share question"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I find it a little hard to believe that your friend needs care the exact hours the nanny works for the exact time (2 weeks) that you'll be away; that premise makes me suspect this is a troll.

However, in case this is a genuine post, I have to agree with the general sentiment that this is not really fair to your nanny. Personally, I've done shares before and try to be flexible. If a family approached me with something like this, I would say that I'd only feel comfortable with it if I was getting additional compensation (not just my normal rate).

Maybe an additional 25% of normal total pay (so 50% of your part of the pay). For example, if you each pay $12 for the share, so she makes $24/hr total, then in this scenario you would still pay $6/hr for the time you'd reserved as guaranteed hours that you won't be using, and then the temporary fill in family would pay their share ($12/hr), so she'd be making $30/hr during those hours.

This additional compensation is necessary because, as others have pointed out, just throwing another child into the share dynamic is not that easy. If she doesn't know the nanny there will be difficulties. In my experience it often takes at least a full week for a child to be comfortable with a new nanny, so there will be a lot more tears for nanny to deal with. There will likely be many other issues in terms of how this other child has been raises how nanny does things; if she's an only child she's likely used to getting her way all the time and that won't happen in a share, etc. And that's not even accounting for things like allergies or other dietary restrictions that might need to be considered.

You can complain about paying all you want, but at the end of the day you'd still be saving 50% of what you would normally be paying (and what you'd be paying regardless, if she has guaranteed hours in her contract). And keeping a share nanny happy is very important. If you choose not to offer additional compensation for the substitution of another child in your absence, then you might come home from your trip to find out you don't have a nanny at all![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics