What are the rules you’d like your babysitter to follow? What would one’s reaction be if he or she discovered that the restrictions specified had been exceeded? Read the story to know why the mother fired her babysitter and do you think she did the right thing?
Source: Reddit
I recently hired a babysitter a few times over this month.
Our kids are ages 5, 8 and 10.
The babysitter, who we’ll call Gabby (F21), lives just a 10 minute drive from us. Gabby is my coworker’s younger stepsister. She’s a student doing a side hustle and lives with her parents. I paid her more than the normal market rate for three kids because she agreed to do it on quite short notice.
One day when Gabby was babysitting the kids from 10am to 2pm, I got an alert of motion detected on our doorbell camera at around 1:30pm and I saw an unfamiliar woman coming into the house. I was super confused and a bit alarmed at first. She was in the house for maybe 15 minutes, then left and sat in her car.
I confronted Gabby about it and she said that the woman was her mom, and that she was giving her a ride home.
I told Gabby there was no reason for her mom to come into the house and that she can’t let other people inside unless it’s an emergency. She could’ve at least texted or called one of us.
Gabby told me it wasn’t a big deal and that it’s just her mom and didn’t seem to understand the problem at all and wasn’t apologetic.
I talked to my husband and we agreed that this was unacceptable and fired Gabby and found another babysitter.
My coworker and Gabby are now pissed at me and my coworker said that their stepsister didn’t deserve to get fired and they accused us of having a superiority complex.
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