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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your options:
1: he didn’t pay her and is lying
2: he paid her, she kept the money on purpose
3: he paid her, she kept the money by accident
4: he paid her, she paid you, you forgot

How do you not remember? If you’re loaning out money, why not keep a written record? My own parents kept a document on the computer when I was paying them back for something!

Why does your mind immediately go to theft? That’s one of FOUR potential scenarios. [/quote]

On 1, if the son is lying he’s VERY GOOD. I found him credible in our conversation today.
On 2, I do think this is what happened but agree I cannot know it for 100% certain.
On 3, I guess it’s possible, but I feel it’s unlikely. The sum of money we are talking here is equal to a weeks pay for the nanny-it’s a lot relative to her income. I would notice if I had an extra half paycheck of cash lying around, wouldn’t you?
On 4, this is possible, and yeah I should have kept records. [b]It’s not a massive amount of money to us [/b]and I really trusted they would pay us so I wasn’t really THAT concerned.[/quote]

I suppose the nanny knows this wasn't a large amount of money to you and was taking advantage of your relative wealth and since you admitted you might not have recalled the repayment... This probably leads to a lot of minor thefts among household employees because they see a disparity in resources and material wealth and assume you wouldn't miss it.

I would recommend you not become your nanny's banker.  There are so many ways that this can sour.  If she needs a ticket, encourage her to get a bank account, debit card, etc, to order it herself, or require that she hand you the cash [b]before[/b] you order it for her.  [/quote]

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