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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We pay our nanny guaranteed hours, and we take 6 weeks if vacation a year. She is very good, but this has become a sore spot. Even though she gets six paid weeks, she has never once offered to give am hour here or there. We returned from a 2 week vacation (after she had already had 4 weeks off that year) and had to stay at work late - and she charged us for that measly HOUR, after having all that paid time off We are giving her notice next month. My advice to you is to negotiate a compromise up front. Paying for alot of unused time will get to you. [/quote]Are you forced to take vacation at gunpoint? Because that's what it sounds like. You have my condolences.[/quote] This. "We're mad we pay for time we said we'd use, but don't because we like to take vacation. This is somehow our nanny's fault, and she should give us additional freebies. Because she doesn't, we're firing her." You sound like a two year old. [/quote] No, PP, you sound like a two year old for framing this issue as a matter of the nanny not being at fault for the family's decision to take vacation. "Fault" is not relevant here. People get paid for providing a service, not for being without fault. At the end of the day, this family's nanny was getting a huge amount of paid vacation. Most professionals need to go through years of school and then work for the same employer for many, many years to earn that kind of leave, and even then, they have to work extra hours before and after taking vacation to keep abreast of deadlines and projects. Why should a nanny get the "freebie" (to use your term) of all that extra vacation and then be surprised that her boss expects her to absorb some of the "cost" of that "freebie" (with the "cost" here being extra work hours before and/or after the trip)? [/quote]
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