Anonymous
06/19/2018 13:28
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
What does your contract state about vacation time? If she is offered a week of her choosing then you do have to pay her, but you don’t have to approve the request for that week.
Anonymous
06/19/2018 12:17
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We told our nanny to pls take summer vacation one of the July or August weeks we are away. She agreed and added one extra travel day.
Now today, said nanny is texting us that she wants a different adjacent week. She is citing a new free evening class at MoCo Community College during our trip that she wants to do and thus take off once it's done. That may or may not be true.
I feel this is highly unprofessional in childcare to every 4 weeks change what week you are gone. Our kids need different camps to sign up for, or pay a babysitter as well or fly in grandparents, etc. It's a big headache to redo the childcare arrangement and the fear it will change again.
I may have to do this unpaid if she wants a third week off this summer.
I'd have more issue with her agreeing to one certain week, and then changing it within a 60 day period. I likely would have arranged all the camps, care and vacations by then around the original agreement.
Bad form to change and I don't even buy the excuse - a free night class is now offered the week of her original vacation so now the change?
No way. Can you or she suggest doing that unpaid or something?
We had a nanny change her summer week off a couple months later when she finally got around to booking flights and wanted to switch due to the cost of flights a month before departure. Unprofessional. Nanny childcare ineeds to be reliable, not fickle.
Overall it's not a good sign that you don't trust your nanny.
Second, it would be so easy to check if the class is free.
Anonymous
06/19/2018 09:56
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
Anonymous wrote:We told our nanny to pls take summer vacation one of the July or August weeks we are away. She agreed and added one extra travel day.
Now today, said nanny is texting us that she wants a different adjacent week. She is citing a new free evening class at MoCo Community College during our trip that she wants to do and thus take off once it's done. That may or may not be true.
I feel this is highly unprofessional in childcare to every 4 weeks change what week you are gone. Our kids need different camps to sign up for, or pay a babysitter as well or fly in grandparents, etc. It's a big headache to redo the childcare arrangement and the fear it will change again.
I may have to do this unpaid if she wants a third week off this summer.
I'd have more issue with her agreeing to one certain week, and then changing it within a 60 day period. I likely would have arranged all the camps, care and vacations by then around the original agreement.
Bad form to change and I don't even buy the excuse - a free night class is now offered the week of her original vacation so now the change?
No way. Can you or she suggest doing that unpaid or something?
We had a nanny change her summer week off a couple months later when she finally got around to booking flights and wanted to switch due to the cost of flights a month before departure. Unprofessional. Nanny childcare ineeds to be reliable, not fickle.
Anonymous
06/19/2018 09:51
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
We stopped telling our nanny our vacation weeks ahead of time. She was a last minute planner for her stuff so now we are too.
Anonymous
06/19/2018 08:37
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
Anonymous wrote:of course! I end up with their 5-6 weeks off a week plus the one I always choose that is totally different!
You may be DS' nanny, but most likely you are another nanny with a similar set up. We encourage his nanny to plan her vacation like this. She gets 1 week of her choosing (with no fine print attached) and guaranteed pay. That ends up being 5-6 weeks a year. It has been that way for 3 years , so I'm guessing she's happy.
Anonymous
06/18/2018 22:45
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
of course! I end up with their 5-6 weeks off a week plus the one I always choose that is totally different!
Anonymous
06/18/2018 21:14
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
Anonymous wrote:I always wait for my family to confess their vacation weeks and has Lindsay SI I don’t have to use my week. Then I take a week separate from theirs no matter what. I deserve it.
I agree. do you get paid when they go on vacation?
Anonymous
06/18/2018 21:11
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
I always wait for my family to confess their vacation weeks and has Lindsay SI I don’t have to use my week. Then I take a week separate from theirs no matter what. I deserve it.
Anonymous
06/18/2018 17:39
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Regardless of what contract says there is a repeat game going on of some give/take.
We had a nanny for 8 years and she always took vacation when we did; that is the respectful thing to do. If something came up we all dealt with it.
Our neighbors had a nanny for less than 18 months. That one always tried to take the week following what her boss announced they would take off so she got 14 days in a row off. Looked very disingenuous and disrespectful, plus the excuses were bizarre.
No it is not the respectful thing to do. A nanny can decide when she takes her vacation if the family is ok with that. I have been a nanny for 10+ years for the same family and in the start I would get one week of my choice. I know get 3 weeks paid vacation.
It’s not at all disrespectful! I get 8 days of my own choosing and 10 of theirs. I don’t have to have all of my vacation time decided by my boss, just like you don’t!
Anonymous
06/18/2018 16:21
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
Anonymous wrote:Regardless of what contract says there is a repeat game going on of some give/take.
We had a nanny for 8 years and she always took vacation when we did; that is the respectful thing to do. If something came up we all dealt with it.
Our neighbors had a nanny for less than 18 months. That one always tried to take the week following what her boss announced they would take off so she got 14 days in a row off. Looked very disingenuous and disrespectful, plus the excuses were bizarre.
No it is not the respectful thing to do. A nanny can decide when she takes her vacation if the family is ok with that. I have been a nanny for 10+ years for the same family and in the start I would get one week of my choice. I know get 3 weeks paid vacation.
Anonymous
06/18/2018 15:47
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
Regardless of what contract says there is a repeat game going on of some give/take.
We had a nanny for 8 years and she always took vacation when we did; that is the respectful thing to do. If something came up we all dealt with it.
Our neighbors had a nanny for less than 18 months. That one always tried to take the week following what her boss announced they would take off so she got 14 days in a row off. Looked very disingenuous and disrespectful, plus the excuses were bizarre.
We had a nanny for 8 years and she always took vacation when we did; that is the respectful thing to do. If something came up we all dealt with it.
Our neighbors had a nanny for less than 18 months. That one always tried to take the week following what her boss announced they would take off so she got 14 days in a row off. Looked very disingenuous and disrespectful, plus the excuses were bizarre.
Anonymous
06/18/2018 15:44
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
If you don't have a clause in your contract about advance scheduling, add it for next year.
Anonymous
06/18/2018 15:06
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
1) What doea thw contract say about vacation time, scheduling and guaranteed hours?
2) How far away is the week you would now need to find childcare for?
2) How far away is the week you would now need to find childcare for?
Anonymous
06/18/2018 14:51
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
Do not pay her the 3rd week unless her contact states she can take 3 weeks. Also, let her know that her changing and adding more days to her vacation time is not okay since you have to plan for back up childcare.
Anonymous
06/18/2018 14:28
Subject: FT nanny keeps changing her vacation week
We told our nanny to pls take summer vacation one of the July or August weeks we are away. She agreed and added one extra travel day.
Now today, said nanny is texting us that she wants a different adjacent week. She is citing a new free evening class at MoCo Community College during our trip that she wants to do and thus take off once it's done. That may or may not be true.
I feel this is highly unprofessional in childcare to every 4 weeks change what week you are gone. Our kids need different camps to sign up for, or pay a babysitter as well or fly in grandparents, etc. It's a big headache to redo the childcare arrangement and the fear it will change again.
I may have to do this unpaid if she wants a third week off this summer.
Now today, said nanny is texting us that she wants a different adjacent week. She is citing a new free evening class at MoCo Community College during our trip that she wants to do and thus take off once it's done. That may or may not be true.
I feel this is highly unprofessional in childcare to every 4 weeks change what week you are gone. Our kids need different camps to sign up for, or pay a babysitter as well or fly in grandparents, etc. It's a big headache to redo the childcare arrangement and the fear it will change again.
I may have to do this unpaid if she wants a third week off this summer.