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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the long French poster is real, please post the name, or at least the city and company, where the LCC told you to ask her if you needed help while you spent four days alone with two kids (?) including a baby.  I totally get that there are "shit families" and "shit LCCs" but this would be absurd, if it were true.  Which I still don't think it is.[/quote]

I am with a smaller Au pair agency (so not CC or APC), and I live in a pretty overpriced city in northern California.  Not sure how knowing the agency and city I live in helps make it more real? As I could just lie about it.

The family has one kid, the baby, I do think she would have kicked a fuss, if I did throw a fit and sparked her into action. But as you would guess it's hard to be confrontational when you live with your boss and want to keep the peace, so I was hoping she would be appalled on my behalf and just tell me "it's illegal, you cannot work 4 days straight without break and stay alone with the baby" (I actually didn't have a break in two weeks because it was over a long weekend so I lost my 1 day & half off and worked two weeks in a row without weekend break) and would call them and tell them that wasn't in the spirit of the program and that they would need to find alternative care to cover the times that were going to be over my 45 hours limit. But like I say she is lazy and I probably didn't look as outraged as I was as I was pretty new (2 months in) and was trying to be gracious. 
As families aren't entirely black and white and mine is the type who will screw me up with the schedule and ask endless favours for free but also will be nice/understanding/helpful in other aspects.

And like another poster have said families leaving kids with Au pairs for a few days so they can get away is a pretty common occurrence.[/quote]

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