Anonymous wrote:Define "late", please.

Our nanny is reliably 5-7 minutes late and it drives me nuts (yes, I've spoken to her about it several times, which helps for a few months, then she relapses a bit).

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Anonymous wrote:Define "late", please.

Our nanny is reliably 5-7 minutes late and it drives me nuts (yes, I've spoken to her about it several times, which helps for a few months, then she relapses a bit).

Late is late. If a person is supposed to start work at 8AM and arrives at 8:01 she is technically late. Now, no one is that much of a dick to worry about a minute but 5 minutes late is unacceptable.

Anonymous wrote:Define "late", please.

Our nanny is reliably 5-7 minutes late and it drives me nuts (yes, I've spoken to her about it several times, which helps for a few months, then she relapses a bit).

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Anonymous wrote:I agree. DH complains about our nanny sometimes, but she is on time, reliable, and genuinely seems to love our children. I could care less about tv time.

I cannot afford an educated nanny anymore (had a great nanny for my oldest) and all I am looking for now for the new baby is a woman who is on time, reliable and loves my baby.

I work in the medical field as well as my nanny cannot be late. She simply cannot be late.

Please explain how you hope the nanny will love your baby.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree. DH complains about our nanny sometimes, but she is on time, reliable, and genuinely seems to love our children. I could care less about tv time.

I cannot afford an educated nanny anymore (had a great nanny for my oldest) and all I am looking for now for the new baby is a woman who is on time, reliable and loves my baby.

I work in the medical field as well as my nanny cannot be late. She simply cannot be late.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree. DH complains about our nanny sometimes, but she is on time, reliable, and genuinely seems to love our children. I could care less about tv time.

I cannot afford an educated nanny anymore (had a great nanny for my oldest) and all I am looking for now for the new baby is a woman who is on time, reliable and loves my baby.

I work in the medical field as well as my nanny cannot be late. She simply cannot be late.

Anonymous wrote:I agree. DH complains about our nanny sometimes, but she is on time, reliable, and genuinely seems to love our children. I could care less about tv time.

Anonymous wrote:The 1st rule of being a nanny is obviously keeping your change healthy and safe in your care. But the 2nd has to be that the nanny is reliable (shows up every day) and is on time every single day.

I am a nanny and I highly recommended a nanny I know from one of our toddler classes. This nanny got the job and has been consistently late and calls in sick at the last moment. I am so embarrassed that I ever recommended her and put her together with her new employer. Her new employers are dentists/oral surgeon and if they are late for work, every patient and person who works in the office is late all day long.

And let me nip the inevitable response in the bud here: It makes no difference what your boss does. In the world, the owner of the company gets to do a lot of things that his/her employees are not allowed to do.

I have managed, in three years, to have only been late once and that was when there was a fire on the freeway and they closed the major cross vein (Mulholland) on the hill (I am in Los Angeles which has the worst and most erratic traffic in the planet).

Anonymous wrote:The 1st rule of being a nanny is obviously keeping your change healthy and safe in your care. But the 2nd has to be that the nanny is reliable (shows up every day) and is on time every single day.

I am a nanny and I highly recommended a nanny I know from one of our toddler classes. This nanny got the job and has been consistently late and calls in sick at the last moment. I am so embarrassed that I ever recommended her and put her together with her new employer. Her new employers are dentists/oral surgeon and if they are late for work, every patient and person who works in the office is late all day long.

And let me nip the inevitable response in the bud here: It makes no difference what your boss does. In the world, the owner of the company gets to do a lot of things that his/her employees are not allowed to do.

I have managed, in three years, to have only been late once and that was when there was a fire on the freeway and they closed the major cross vein (Mulholland) on the hill (I am in Los Angeles which has the worst and most erratic traffic in the planet).

Anonymous wrote:I agree. As an employer, I made the mistake exactly once of hiring a nanny based on personality, fit, etc., but did not really focus on reliability with her or when speaking to her references. After her abysmal ability to show up on time (or even every day), being able to find references as to a candidate's reliability went to the top of my list.

I actually ask about that first. No use falling in love with someone if the relationship can't possibly work out, right?