Anonymous
08/25/2019 06:54
Subject: s/o of thread Late: how often is too often
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Do you pay her until 6 or 5:30? If I were your nanny, I probably wouldn't say anything but it would really bug me if you wanted me available until 6 but didn't pay me for it. It would affect when I could make evening plans if I have to block off that time for you, but don't always get paid for it.
Get over yourself. Have you ever worked in any job besides being a nanny? Getting guaranteed pay for every second of possible work is not realistic.
Lol! No, that's l how it works in any hourly job. You are paid for every minute of work. Clocking out is the last thing you do. Funny how you tried to deliver a lecture about something you didn't actually know about.
Anonymous
08/24/2019 23:18
Subject: Re:s/o of thread Late: how often is too often
Live-in nanny here. I take jobs where it really is out of my employers’ control. But I’m on call all night, in case they’re called in, and it’s the difference between having the monitor or not.
Anonymous
08/01/2019 16:51
Subject: s/o of thread Late: how often is too often
Anonymous wrote:This is why I have an au pair. I don’t want to be guilted for stuff that is out of my control. It’s not like I pop into a bar on my way home.
How much is out of your control? Are you constantly late for your own job and appointments for these things that are out of your control?
And don’t you think your poor kids are waiting for you, too?
I honestly don’t understand people like you. Yes, occasionally things happen (accident on freeway, crisis at work, emergency call) but none of those things happen everyday. I am an MB and a prompt person in general. I have never been late relieving the nanny nor has nanny ever been late getting to work. We have an easy, relaxed transfer of information at the end of the day.
Anonymous
08/01/2019 15:57
Subject: s/o of thread Late: how often is too often
Anonymous wrote:This is why I have an au pair. I don’t want to be guilted for stuff that is out of my control. It’s not like I pop into a bar on my way home.
Are you able to make it to work in time? Would you expect a nanny to be prompt? Barring extreme circumstances, this is well within your control. But you make all the excuses you need to feel better about yourself.
Anonymous
08/01/2019 15:53
Subject: s/o of thread Late: how often is too often
Anonymous wrote:This is why we tell our nanny we'll be home between 5:30 - 6pm. Leaves us time to get stuck on a call at the office, stuck in traffic, pop into the store to pick up dinner, etc. This way if we get home at 5:31 instead of 5:30 the nanny is not upset.
I assume you pay her until 6, but I doubt it. If not, you are thoughtless and extremely disrespectful.
Anonymous
08/01/2019 09:39
Subject: s/o of thread Late: how often is too often
Anonymous wrote:This is why I have an au pair. I don’t want to be guilted for stuff that is out of my control. It’s not like I pop into a bar on my way home.
Yeah, right!
Anonymous
08/01/2019 09:38
Subject: Re:s/o of thread Late: how often is too often
Anonymous wrote:My former employers were late pretty much two or three times a week near the end. They started out being respectful but then just let everything slide. They could not have cared any less about my time or my plans/family. Worst was their little girl would wait at the door for her mother. The mother told me, “we’re just not the kind of people who can be on time”. She said the same about having a filthy kitchen when I got to work and left her underwear on my charge’s bathroom floor several times. Pigs.
I was never once late for work. Never once in three years.
I hope you left the dishes as well as her dirty underwear exactly where you found them.