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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just want to say that I don't think that a nanny arriving for work late or parents arriving home late is the same as being flexible. Parents should pay the nanny for as much time as they need her - my employers pay me to stay until 6, even though they are often home at 5:30, so they have this built-in time for running errands or staying late at the office, etc. Meanwhile, I do have to leave right on the dot because I go immediately to a second job that starts at 6:30.  In our relationship, flexibility is them asking me if I can come in early the following day, or me asking if I can leave early one Thursday two months down the road to pick someone up at the airport, etc. etc. Always plenty of notice, always a request, never an expectation - that's what I think of when I think of flexibility. Being late repeatedly is just disrespectful on either side.[/quote]

I agree that the parents should be paying to have the nanny stay until 6:30pm if they want the flexibility to frequently arrive home later than 6pm. Just because you are a nanny, it does not mean that parents have a right to be late all the time if their job isn't forcing them to, but it is them just wanting to stop off to do a bit of shopping after work or whatever personal reason for them being late (not jb related). If I accept a position where they give me a set schedule and say that they don't work in the type of position that will ask them to stay late, then I expect them to try and get home by the end of my scheduled time with them. I would be happy to arrange "on call" hours at the end of a shift to allow flex time for them if their job needs that, I have done that before, but you need to include those hours in the position so that I CAN schedule other things in the evenings for other stuff (evening classes, extra babysitting).[/quote]

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