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[quote=Anonymous] [quote=Anonymous]My worst au pair was a social media junkie. Always on her phone always on the apps...so much that my kids gave up on asking her to play with them. She would text in the car and even take videos. I asked her to stop and even had two mediations with her and our counselor. . She also was clueless and would start the car with the garage door down. She was passive aggressive and although I told her to take the boys outside every day, she would 'forget' or 'assume they didn't want to because they did ask to'.  She claimed she was a slave because she had to play with the boys and be available when they were sick or had a snow day vs being able to be off/go to the gym.

I should have rematched, but I muddled thru instead. Never again.[/quote]

:( 
How awful. Our Au Pair has costed us thousands of extra dollars yet puts less effort into child related care. 
We paid over $2000 on her root canal, given her clothes, jewelry, extra holidays off, let laundry slide, let’ cleaning kids’ room slide,
Leaves dirty dishes, leaves crap stains in toilet, comes home the next day hung over, has her boyfriend sleep over (our fault), he eats our food, drinks our coffee, takes showers, etc. She lied and claimed she was going to school two nights a week, so I arranged and paid extra for daycare. Busted her! Not going to school for months. Yet we still pay her over the weekly minimum and pay her unlimited public transportation pass. Buy her ridiculous list of requested groceries that include us going to more than one grocery store on a weekend because my husband and I both work full-time. She’s always on some fad diet and requests different and specific food items. 
She planned her entitled vacation, which my husband agreed to take 6 days off (instead of 5). Then one week prior, she claimed her boyfriend accidentally booked their return flight an additional day later. I was forced to find childcare and work from home. The sitter worked from 9-3 and was paid $100. All while our AuPair got 2 free paid days off, plus we used our PTo and paid additional for childcare. 
I could go on with more. She was just a waste. 
Her first 10 months to 12 months was great. After that we should have let her go. It was apparent that she felt entitled. 
We NEVER asked her to work a weekend. She worked Mon-Fri. 
I have the worst feeling in my gut about her. But it’s end of June 2019 and her contract ends Sept 10, 2019. Not sure if I can take it much more.[/quote]

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