Today, I just got done watching my cousin's two kids for four days while they were on vacation. I fed, clothed, and bathed them for four days of hell and got paid with a $5 shark tooth necklace from the Bahamas. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I woke up to see my neighbor's 5-year-old daughter next to me. She said good morning and handed me a note from her dad saying that I owe him and he's cashing in. So, I'm babysitting as her parents escape to the Bahamas for two weeks. My annual two week vacation starts today too. FML
Today, after my family left me at home for the weekend before finals while they went on vacation so I could focus on my studies, I spent the weekend watching my little cousins for no pay. It wasn’t an easy babysitting job either. I had to pay attention to and then re-enact basically every Bluey episode ever to exist, with no time to study. 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
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, while working security at a welfare office, I had to listen as a claimant gushed about her upcoming Caribbean cruise. I work two jobs and haven't had a vacation since 2006. FML
Today, I babysat for a woman for the first time. When I arrived, there was a large pile of dishes in the sink. I decided to wash the dishes for her while the kids napped. She came home, noticed it, and bitched me out over how I'd only done it "to try and get more money" out of her. What? FML
Today, after babysitting, the parents actually tried to pay me in Trident Layers Gum. FML
Today, I found out that I get to spend the next two weeks at my grandparents' house, which smells like cat litter, while the rest of my family takes a cruise through the Caribbean. They can't afford to take a ninth person. FML
Today, I had an very long day at work. I also had to take my daughter to the dentist and ballet class. Later, my 3 year-old son was having a diarrhoea, needing care, yet I pulled myself up, cooked, fed, read, cleaned the whole house except the kids' bedroom. My brother-in-law came, looked only at that and judged me horribly. FML
Today, I was babysitting. Being kind, I went to grab their mail, while their 4 year old ate lunch. He locked me out, wrecked the house, and let me in right when he saw their car two hours later. I didn't get paid. I paid them. FML
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Top comments
RuralNinja 0
Just because you're family doesn't mean they can **** you like that. They had the money for the Bahamas, so they have the money to pay you for your work.
lexiBRo 0
You mean you agreed to babysit for free (or without discussing payment), and they brought back a sharktooth necklace from the giftshop ?? I seriously doubt the souvenir was a form of payment, but perhaps next time you discuss payment ahead of time? Family usually screws you over more than strangers.
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Comments (132)
jessxoxo28 5
y dont u tell them about the hell u went through and tell them to give u more. i watch my cousins to, but not for 4 days- thats just crazy.
AshleyRose784 0
lesson learned, don't babysit for them again.
suthenreblstud 0
I think the only FML part of the story is that HE is a male and he got a necklace... unless you're a fag... haha, that's an FML too... ******. Go wear your fag necklace with pride!
linyah 11
...huh..i am not sure if you are trolling or just being an idiot that needs to be taken out of the gene pool.
Zombifest 2
I watch my nephews all the time and expect nothing in return, you help family they help you. I usually get offered dinner though. Now you've learned that next time you need to discuss the arrangement a little more, most of the time families do not think of things in business terms they just think of it as a favor.
urmomsass 0
YDI for being a pussy, im 13 and I have 4 younger siblings under the age of 8 and my older brother is mentally retarded, I watch them all every day for most of the day because Im homeschooled and my parents are ******* lazy when they get home from work
Lichinamo 33
That's not right. A teenager taking care of four young kids and a mentally retarded one? I don't think that's fairly ethical
DevineLegacy 0
rip off!
dbgtboy 0
stop complaining, theyre your family youre not supposed to take money from them, i spend lots of hours helping out my cousins with computer problems and i dont get paid a dime for it but you dont see me complaining.
saailaway 0
thats different you retard. his family is being selfish for not paying the man for doing a job. we're talking 4 DAYS of babysitting. cheap assholes
honeyishrnkdakid 2
Um, sometimes it is appropriate to charge family members for things. I agree that helping cousins out with computer problems is not something you ask for or expect money for. I don't even think babysitting for a day or two is something you ask for money for. But I do think babysitting for FOUR DAYS is something you should get something for. I mean, presumably OP does have a life. And the cousins should have the decency to acknowledge that, I mean if they can afford a trip to the Bahamas, they can afford to compensate him for his time, energy, and hellish experience.
lrb081 0
OP is f'n selfish. It's family!
honeyishrnkdakid 2
I get so sick of people using family as an excuse to screw people over. Family doesn't mean you get to get taken advantage of.
honeyishrnkdakid 2
I only say YDI because you should have negotiated money beforehand. Sorry that happened :-(
SarlaccBits 0
Ok, unless they told you from the beginning that you were going to be paid – this isn’t a FML, just you being a selfish ass. It’s family - you help family out without expecting anything in return.
Teekayahr 0
I agree. If you expect to be paid, make sure you express that intention before they settle on you.