Anonymous
05/07/2015 11:47
Subject: Late parents
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Anonymous
05/07/2015 11:47
Subject: Late parents
I'm a nanny and I agree with PP. If parents are gracious about me being late (ie I'm 5 minutes late but they still come home on time), they I extend them the same courtesy. However, if a parent decides to wait in their car for 5 minutes so they can "get what they paid for", I'm going to do the same thing when they're late. It's a give and take relationship
Anonymous
05/07/2015 11:20
Subject: Re:Late parents
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am a nanny and I just don't see a total of twenty minutes late being a big deal. I wouldn't charge a parent for that time regardless of overtime or not.
I have never been late. I sort of trained my employers to always be on time early on as I tutored right after work three days a week and had to leave at exactly my end time. Now that I am not tutoring, they are still always on time.
Being late 20 minutes for 50 weeks per year adds up to 17 hours.
That is a big deal. They need to be on time or pay overtime. Period.
I don't see it that way either. Seventeen hours of overtime is not worth developing a "nickel and dime" relationship with a new employer. I would absolutely mention it but not fret about it so soon into a new job.
Just my opinion as a nanny.
I'm the PP you quoted and I would never do this either. The employers, however, are making her make up the 5 it's she was late. The parents started the nickel and diming.
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