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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You sound pretty nasty.  At $20 an hour, you should not be sitting in your car but watching the child.  For that money, knowing she is not feeling well, you could offer to do more to help out.  I'd be pretty pissed at paying you that kind of money to sit in your car, not watch my child and play on your iPad/phone.  I'd also be annoyed given you only work a few hours and want to leave early.[/quote]

Well, I don't think I'm a nasty person, but not going to change anyone's mind. If parents aren't allowed in same room as kids, how can I be 'watching the child?' Using my ipad while waiting is not allowed??? [/quote]

New poster here... Op, you need to seek more then new employment... You need to seek a new career.

And when I say new career... I mean McDonald's... Because you seem very lazy and unmotivated. Nannies do light house keep. Nannies do errands and nannies absolutely wait Inside whether they want to or not. Your job is to make the families life easier - not harder. [/quote]

Just to add some input, from what I remember of the positions she posted about before, it was an after school care type thing. For positions like these, errands and light housekeeping are not always part of the job. The higher pay rate is for the limited number of hours per week (well, more like each day). I can't say I have ever done any errands for my families unless I knew they needed something and went ahead and picked it up after confirming with them that they wouldn't mind (and would pay me back). I do various amounts of light house keeping with each position, that is something that is negotiated with each and how I decide the rate (along with the actual number of hours and number of children).

While I take my positions seriously and consider myself a professional (this is my job, not a side thing), many that do these positions are really just sitters and do it as a side gig to make extra money while in school etc. I disagree with her asking to leave early the first week (I try to not ask at all, ever), and I think sitting in the lobby would have been perfectly fine and see no need to have sat in the car instead (portable devices with a battery and a set of headphones are marvelous things to help you wait ANYWHERE). Suddenly expecting her to run errands, to not reimburse for gas like previously mentioned, etc are things that should have not come into to play after negotiations were done and the job was started unless it was mentioned that things might need to be evaluated and possibly changed after seeing how things go the first few weeks.[/quote]

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