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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our nanny's been with us for about a month and a half and she would regularly arrive 5 minutes late and occasionally 10 minutes late.  Hoping to nip this in the bud, I told her in her 2nd week of work that being on time was very important to me.  She was apologetic and said she would be on time going forward.  Since then, she still arrives late almost every day, but it's more like 3-5 minutes late.  Would most people consider this "on time"?  I know for personal things, such as coffee with friends, arriving within 5 minutes of the meeting time is considered "on time", at least among my circle, but for "professional" things, such as work or school, IMO "on time" means just that, no grace period.  Our former nanny would arrive literally on the minute every day (she would arrive early & wait in our building lobby until it was time), I guess I've been spoiled by this?  Current nanny has other tardiness issues (excessive lateness averaging once a week(!)) and I'm wondering if I should bring up the daily lateness in the same conversation or let it go.[/quote]

I agree, she has a pattern of being late.  Whether that is due to laziness, poor planning/judgement, or an attitude problem, you have an issue you need to fix.  Start a log-book where you write the start time down, if she is late, write "LATE."   Fix this now. [/quote]

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