Reply to How often does your nanny call out sick? What's your back-up plan?

Forum Index » General Discussion

Reply to "How often does your nanny call out sick? What's your back-up plan?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your post make me think that she is burned out.  Missing work often and no be willing to be reliable at all, it's seems a red flag.  She must be missing work on purpose;  while looking for a new job.  Just saying now that I'm reading your post and mention you have 4 children.  If she has been working for you only for some months;  maybe she just started to feel the burn out.  Four children it's really lot of work. [/quote]

Possibly but she always claims to have a plausible excuse, usually related to illness.  Since we had a similar experience with the last nanny (when we only had 3 kids), I guess we took things at face value and trusted her excuses. [/quote]

Of course she says it's illness. What's she going to say, "I can't come in tomorrow. You aren't paying me enough for four kids and I'm burned out?" Come on.[/quote]

I agree, this is one burnt out nanny! If you ask any nanny in this position, they start taking days off for a break. It's not just the pay but stretch in ages and keeping them all happy is draining. The fact that you keep saying she has plausable excuses means she can't talk to you and be honest. If you like her and want to keep her, sit her down ON YOUR TIME not her hours, away from the kids so you can talk uninterupted and be gentle but ask her to be honest and that you love her and want to keep her but you want her to want to come to work and be happy and how can we make that happen. 
Good luck.[/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