Today, I tutored a kid for two hours, for $25 an hour. When it came time for them to pay, my mother told the kid's parents that they could give me ten bucks for the whole thing. She does this a lot. FML
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Today, I babysat for my neighbor's brat kid. The mom gave me $15 for 5 hours. I complained to my mom when I got home because last time I got $15/hour. Turns out my mom had told my neighbor that she thought they'd paid me too much last time. Thanks mom. Thanks. FML
Today, I taught a kid piano for a two hour lesson. The mom left to do some errands, and by the time two hours was up, she texted me asking to watch the kid for another "15 minutes" while she returned home. No problem, she had the money too, so I stayed. Four hours later, she showed up, and refused to pay me extra. FML
Today, a mother wrote me a $130 check for babysitting her four kids for a few hours. Trying to be gracious, I said, "Wow, thank you, this is very generous!" She thought for a minute, then said, "You're right." She took the check back, ripped it up, and wrote me a new one for $55. FML
Today, I found out that the student tutor my son advised me to hire was my son's girlfriend. I have been paying her $20 an hour for the last 3 weeks to make out with my son in his room. FML
Today, I found out my mom paid my best friend $20 to be my friend when we were 10. FML
Today, I had to watch my neighbor's daughter for 10 hours. She wouldn't eat anything I had to offer, so I ordered a pizza for $19 + a $5 tip = $24. Her father came by to pick her up, thanked me, and gave me a $20 bill. I effectively just paid to watch his kid. FML
Today, I babysat the neighbors’ evil kids. They dropped them over at my house and I played with them for five hours. After taking the brats back home and putting them to bed, their mother asked me what time I came back to the house. She only paid me for the 20 minutes I was in their house. FML
Today, the guy whose son I babysat for six hours straight confessed to being broke, then actually asked if he could pay me with sex instead. FML
Today, I told my mom I had 73 cents in my checking account. She gave me a penny and told me I had 74 cents and it was even now. Thanks mom. FML
Today, I went to babysit eight kids under the age of ten, all by myself. After five hours of Hell, the parents finally came back from the ASU game. I got paid $5. FML
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Top comments
CrazyManNo9 29
Tell Mom, she owes you $40.
jadums 5
It happens because you let it. Tell them the kid won't be tortured until balance is paid in full
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Comments (36)
darshini_ii 24
If she does this a lot and you still go back there to offer them your services, FYL. Either do it for free and stop complaining or stop helping people like them.
Lalala579121 28
Stop helping people like who? It's the mother's fault, not the kid's parents.
TheyCallMeDamien 18
Wtf. Why wouldn't you want your kid to get paid? That's some BS.
amberfox 11
Just because she doesn't value your work doesn't mean it's not valuable. Time to start handling your own money.
cheshireau 26
If you pay board to live at home (I'm assuming you are over 18?) take the remaining money out of that and give her the rest. That is just not on and you need to be assertive about it.
Viewerv 2
There is only one explanation I can find for your mom's behaviour, you are tutoring kids of family friends or at least people with whom your mother socialise. This probably means the parents complained to your mother that you were too expensive. My suggestion, make clear to your mom that this is not okay. If she argues, tutor away from home or don't tutor kids whose parents go whining to your mother. But if your mother is giving discounts to seem "nice" to both friends and strangers, your mother has validation issues and you need to put your foot down!
lovethatstach 18
i think maybe mommy shouldnt be allowed to converse with your 'employers'.
charliewhippet 9
Could you tutor at the kid's house to avoid your mom being involved? Or just laugh like she's joking and say "(kid's parents) knows its $25 per hour mom, don't be silly."
GiantOctopusRulz 2
Tell your mom that if she wants to charge the kid $10 instead of the $50 you charge that she can do the tutoring yourself. I don't know how old you are but if you are old enough to drive or get yourself to the job, leave mom at home from now on
jbuckets_404 39
OP, remind the parents of your $25/ hr charge when you first arrive.
samwilliams800 28
If she does it a lot, why are you still tutoring for them? YDI