Anonymous
05/12/2017 06:49
Subject: Re:New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
Take them to court OP!
Please don't let them get away with this.
Please don't let them get away with this.
Anonymous
05/11/2017 21:17
Subject: Re:New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
Please don't let it go. What do you have to lose for sticking up for yourself?
Anonymous
05/11/2017 17:00
Subject: New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
Please do not let them get away with this.
Anonymous
05/11/2017 14:30
Subject: Re:New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:did you get your pay?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can we have an update OP?
I texted them this weekend saying that legally I'm owed my full pay and that I'm sincerely sorry I broke the wine glass. The mother got super pissy, and basically fired me. They owe me my pay from last week, if I don't get it I will take them to the small claims court. It's $500 but I didn't work a 40 hour week for free.
No. I never got my pay. Decided to let it go.
I'm not in the DC area.
Why would you let it go? You might not even need to go to small claims court, but rather give the Department of Labor a call.
Anonymous
05/11/2017 13:25
Subject: New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
I bet they wanted OP to replace the whole set of glasses, which is BS. And if the glass really is worth $250, then they are morons for leaving it in the sink.
Anonymous
05/11/2017 13:20
Subject: Re:New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
Anonymous wrote:did you get your pay?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can we have an update OP?
I texted them this weekend saying that legally I'm owed my full pay and that I'm sincerely sorry I broke the wine glass. The mother got super pissy, and basically fired me. They owe me my pay from last week, if I don't get it I will take them to the small claims court. It's $500 but I didn't work a 40 hour week for free.
No. I never got my pay. Decided to let it go.
I'm not in the DC area.
Anonymous
05/11/2017 10:33
Subject: Re:New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
At the rate you were being paid, had they docked your pay by $250, they would have been paying you far below minimum wage. They knew exactly what they were doing, and were hoping that you wouldn't realize it.
Anonymous
05/03/2017 09:29
Subject: Re:New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
I am really sorry, OP. Yes, take them to court or go to Legal Services and get one of the lawyers to write a letter on your behalf to scare them.
I wish there was someway nannies could warn other nannies about horrid employers.
I wish there was someway nannies could warn other nannies about horrid employers.
Anonymous
05/03/2017 00:41
Subject: Re:New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
did you get your pay?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can we have an update OP?
I texted them this weekend saying that legally I'm owed my full pay and that I'm sincerely sorry I broke the wine glass. The mother got super pissy, and basically fired me. They owe me my pay from last week, if I don't get it I will take them to the small claims court. It's $500 but I didn't work a 40 hour week for free.
Anonymous
05/02/2017 12:26
Subject: New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Broke a marble table in half? How? Did she drop a piano on it?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We had a housekeeper break the marble top on a $10,000 antique table in half purely because she was an idiot. We still didn't try to charge her. You need to say no and find a new job ASAP.
No. You were the idiot. If you have an item that expensive then you either clean it yourself or hire an expert to clean the table.
Then no one with antique furniture could ever have household staff ...
Homeowner's insurance covers this stuff, but at the 10K mark, you have to decide if it's worth it to make the claim and possibly lose your insurance.
She tried to detach the marble top from the wood bottom to polish it. (Something we 100% never asked her to do; it never even occurred to me someone would think this was possible.) In trying to do so, she knocked the whole thing on its side and the marble split in half. It may have had some kind of undetected weakness previously to crack like that (we got it from my Grandma and it dates to the 1870s, apparently) or it may have just hit the floor at a really unfortunate angle (it dented out wood floor too). In any case, we didn't want our insurance to go up, so we didn't claim anything; we hired someone to essentially plaster glue it back together and, because of marble's natural color variations, it's not that noticeable unless you're standing over it (when it definitely is).
That qualifies as idiotic.
Anonymous
05/02/2017 05:33
Subject: Re:New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can we have an update OP?
I texted them this weekend saying that legally I'm owed my full pay and that I'm sincerely sorry I broke the wine glass. The mother got super pissy, and basically fired me. They owe me my pay from last week, if I don't get it I will take them to the small claims court. It's $500 but I didn't work a 40 hour week for free.
You should also apply for employment.
Anonymous
05/01/2017 20:52
Subject: New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
You break something you have to pay to replace it
Anonymous
04/24/2017 21:50
Subject: Re:New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can we have an update OP?
I texted them this weekend saying that legally I'm owed my full pay and that I'm sincerely sorry I broke the wine glass. The mother got super pissy, and basically fired me. They owe me my pay from last week, if I don't get it I will take them to the small claims court. It's $500 but I didn't work a 40 hour week for free.
You should absolutely take them to small claims court
That is $12.50 an hour. If you are in DC area, that is well below market rate for a nanny. If you are in DC, then they ripped you off, then ripped you off again.
I sure hope you have better luck with your next job.
Anonymous
04/24/2017 18:40
Subject: New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
Holy shit those people are awful!
Anonymous
04/24/2017 18:32
Subject: Re:New employers want me to pay for broken glass, only problem is they say it's a $250 glass
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can we have an update OP?
I texted them this weekend saying that legally I'm owed my full pay and that I'm sincerely sorry I broke the wine glass. The mother got super pissy, and basically fired me. They owe me my pay from last week, if I don't get it I will take them to the small claims court. It's $500 but I didn't work a 40 hour week for free.
You should absolutely take them to small claims court