You seem to silently accept her lateness so why should she change? Talk to her or live with it.

Your nanny sounds young and immature. Sit down with her and tell her your expectations and how lateness can no longer be tolerated. Don't engage her in personal conversation if you don't want to hear her whining. Suggest she get an alarm clock to keep on the other side of her room to prevent oversleeping.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. How long has she been a FT nanny?
2. What is her hourly rate?

Neither question matters. Employees are expected to be on time regardless of experience or hourly wage.

Poorly compensated employees are more likely to perform poorly, especially when her work isn't considered important.

No they aren't. Grown ups accept a position knowing the salary and show up on time. Childish to think otherwise. I am a nanny, btw.

Anonymous wrote:I bet you have one of those american nannies that couldn't cut it in teaching elementary school and went for nanny thinking it would be a piece of cake and now thinks she is waiting on a family and feels unappreciated.

or one of those illegal foreign nannies who will ask for weeks and weeks off to go back to their home country at the last minute.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. How long has she been a FT nanny?
2. What is her hourly rate?

Neither question matters. Employees are expected to be on time regardless of experience or hourly wage.

Poorly compensated employees are more likely to perform poorly, especially when her work isn't considered important.

Anonymous wrote:I bet you have one of those american nannies that couldn't cut it in teaching elementary school and went for nanny thinking it would be a piece of cake and now thinks she is waiting on a family and feels unappreciated.

I have never met one nanny like that and you seem to feel it is a set type!! Funny!

I bet you have one of those american nannies that couldn't cut it in teaching elementary school and went for nanny thinking it would be a piece of cake and now thinks she is waiting on a family and feels unappreciated.

Anonymous wrote:1. How long has she been a FT nanny?
2. What is her hourly rate?

Neither question matters. Employees are expected to be on time regardless of experience or hourly wage.

You are either too nice or don't know how to handle uncaring people. Then again when you come too early some bosses don't appreciate your effort in getting there on time. This nanny needs to be fired or at least threatened to fire her and see if she acts differently. I am curious to how much she is getting paid per week? If she was getting a good salary she probably would be afraid of loosing her job.

1. How long has she been a FT nanny?
2. What is her hourly rate?

Being late and asking to leave early on a regular basis are two unacceptable traits, OP. I feel you are well within your right to make a point of telling her that these things are fireable offenses and will not be tolerated.

The complaining is probably just her personality.

Is she young? She sounds very young.

You are a weak employer.
Define the role and maintain boundaries.

Being late every single day is unacceptable. You should speak to her. The other thing is just her personality, I guess. I wouldn't enjoy this personally, but what can you do?

Being late on a regular basis is unacceptable. We have an awesome nanny who is 10 min early and changes when she comes in. She had been late by 15 once in two years due to traffic accidents and was so so apologetic and offered to work off the extra time she owed me (of course I didn’t take her up on it). There are lovely nannies out there who can be on time.

She has overall done a good job caring for DS in the last couple of months, and I have been pretty relaxed about managing. Sometimes I do feel that she’s a bit too comfortable. She’s late everyday, sometimes five minutes sometimes fifteen. There are a few times she’s late almost half an hour because she overslept. She asks to leave early if DS is sleeping, which is fine, but still. She complains often about minor body aches or stuff like waking up in the middle of the night and cannot get back to sleep. I generally don’t mind the sharing and would consider; but sometimes I feel that it’s unprofessional to unload your minor personal issues to your employer. I certainly will not tell my boss if I had a sleepless night. I don’t even mention if I had to work overnight to finish a project. Anyway. I still very much like my nanny and of course no one is perfect. Just feel a little annoyed at times amd want to vent.