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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP do you guarantee her hours? If so, then her canceling on your to work other hours is completely gaming the system, and she sounds pretty dumb if she flat out told you this. However if you haven't guaranteed her hours, I don't think its wrong for her to occasionally take a (significantly) higher paying gig for the day. I had a crappy boss once, that refused to guarantee my hours, and I made it work for a while but if I was offered a higher paying gig for the day, I would tell her I couldn't make it that day. When you hire a nanny you pay for her services and her availability. If you don't guarantee pay, you open yourself up to competition for her time if she's in demand. [/quote]
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Even if the hours weren't guaranteed the nanny made a commitment to be there on that particular day. It is wrong for her to take a higher paying job when she already made a commitment to the OP for those hours. [/b]OP is already paying the nanny more than the nanny's previous employer. This nanny does sound money hungry. That's a concern b/c if she did this once it's conceivable she'll do it again. I wouldn't want to employ someone like that. [/quote]

I agree w/ this.  OP - it doesn't sound like a comfortable fit to me.  If my nanny were behaving this way I would be very uneasy.  I expect to pay good wages for good care, that's a baseline, but I also expect (assuming the compensation package is fair) that the caregiver will actually care about my child.  I wouldn't hire (or retain) someone who didn't show the kind of personal commitment, love of kids, etc... that I think is required for a nanny.

Yours doesn't sound like care of/feelings for the child are much of a priority and that would be a deal breaker for me, as would an inability to rely on her to show up for work on days when she'd committed to me.  So I'd find someone else w/ very little guilt.

Good luck.[/quote]

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