Can I Vent??? Childcare related **Updated**

Re: Can I Vent??? Childcare related **Updated**

• rubber_chicken member

  January 2013

  I'm still stuck on  "her ride to the airport hit a cow"
  

  

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• mae0111 member

  January 2013

  rubber_chicken:

  I'm still stuck on  "her ride to the airport hit a cow"
  

  Believe me, so was I!!!

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• MammaBear81 member

  January 2013

  rubber_chicken:

  I'm still stuck on  "her ride to the airport hit a cow"
  

  THIS!  Do you think she isn't going to come back at all?

  ETA: did she need to renew her visa when she went home?  I know when our au pair went home she had to renew it, and it took almost two weeks.
  

  
  
    
  

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• mae0111 member

  January 2013

  Nanny is American, her DH is Brazilian.  So she didn't have to renew anything. 

  She's still waiting for her car.  Luckily DD was in preschool for much of the morning, so I was able to get a good amount of work done.  She's resting now, and a neighbor is coming over in a while to cover until DH gets home.

  I'm so annoyed.  I get that stuff happens, but if the situation was reversed, and my employer had just sent me to freaking BRAZIL to spend Christmas with my DH that I hadn't seen in almost 9 months, I would be doing EVERYTHING in my power to get to work on my first day back.

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• MammaBear81 member

  January 2013

  mae0111:

  Nanny is American, her DH is Brazilian.  So she didn't have to renew anything. 

  She's still waiting for her car.  Luckily DD was in preschool for much of the morning, so I was able to get a good amount of work done.  She's resting now, and a neighbor is coming over in a while to cover until DH gets home.

  I'm so annoyed.  I get that stuff happens, but if the situation was reversed, and my employer had just sent me to freaking BRAZIL to spend Christmas with my DH that I hadn't seen in almost 9 months, I would be doing EVERYTHING in my power to get to work on my first day back.

  There has to be something else going on... it's not like they don't have taxi's in Brazil, she could make it to the airport on time if she really wanted to.  Her DH is still there, tell him to deal with the car.
  

  
  
    
  

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• mae0111 member

  January 2013

  MammaBear81:

  There has to be something else going on... it's not like they don't have taxi's in Brazil, she could make it to the airport on time if she really wanted to.  Her DH is still there, tell him to deal with the car.
  

  Apparently her DH lives in a small town 5 hours from the closest airport.  He doesn't have a car, and wrecked his motor cycle the week before she got there. 

  So she's supposedly back here, but her car wouldn't start this morning.  If she had given me some notice, I would have picked her up.  But she didn't.  So I scrambled, picked up DD, 1/2 paid attention to her while I worked, and got her down for a nap. 

  I think I'm most annoyed because when I told her I got coverage for the rest of the afternoon, she didn't respond.  She didn't apologize for the inconvenience.  Nothing. 

  She's our 3rd nanny in 3 years.  A center really won't work for us.  DH and I said that we're done after this nanny, but things had been going pretty well, so I thought we were in good shape for a while.  We're not ready for me to quit.

  Ugh.

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• jnealet member

  January 2013

  Sometimes cars don't start after sitting for a while.  But that's not an excuse for her not to be at work.  I hope she is just having a little bump in the road and she'll get back to working out for you guys.

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• melandkeith2008

  January 2013

  Um...yeah. Pretty sure if my employer had just been generous enough to use their miles to send me to Brazil to visit my DH, nothing would have kept me from coming in to work today. I get that cars don't start but she should have found a ride, taken the bus, taken a cab, whatever. She should have figured something out, I would be pissed. Hopefully, she'll be in tomorrow with profuse apologies.

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• kmpls member

  January 2013

  Yikes. I would be super pissed.

   Let us know what happens.

  Good luck! 

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• mae0111 member

  January 2013

  So she called me last night, close to tears. She said she felt terrible about the inconvenience she caused, especially since we'd been so nice to her with the plane tickets. She told me that they figured out the issue with the car, but that it wouldn't be fixed until the end of the day today. She'd had to walk home - 3 miles in 15 degree weather - from the mechanic. 

  So she's back at work today. I picked her up and loaned her my car (which is usually just parked at the train station all day anyway). She thanked me, apologized, etc.  

  So I'm feeling better about everything. I just felt taken advantage of yesterday, especially since she seemed so unapologetic in her initial communications.  

  So thanks for listening to me whine!!! 

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• Pumpkin62307

  January 2013

  So glad everything worked out and today is better day. When I was reading through without realizing it was 'yesterday's problem' I was going to say, "Go ahead, be annoyed and vent here, but it really sounded like your nanny was just having a bad day too, and I was hoping everything would work out quickly."

   Since all that is over, I still had to reply in regards to the cow. I snort-laughed when I read that in your OP, but being from a very rural, farming community, it's not unheard of here. I've actually been in my car, on the road, surrounded by black cows....at night. Not a good situation!

  BTW - super, super generous gift you gave your nanny - I doubt she has plans to leave you anytime soon!

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