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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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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martha_fml 0
wow, i don't know what your relationship is with your cousins but where I come from we do these things for each other because that's what family is there for. We don't bitch that we didn't get paid and we don't expect to get paid either. Besides...if you were expecting compensation you should have made that cleam before you agreed to take them!
Grndslmhttr3 0
YDI for wearing a shark-tooth necklace.
scorpioserpent 1
FYL for not being paid, but like others have said, after what you did for their kids, they can't refuse to do any favors for to.
TotalPandamonium 2
If it were for a day or two I'd have done it for free, but 3 or more I would charge for. Especially since I have children of my own to worry about. Though I have to agree you should have told them you expected payment right away.
cramazing 0
YDI for expecting payment. u were just helping out thefamily hun. ya dont get paid for that.
Nonamerequired 0
You should have arranged the payment beforehand.
Illumi113 0
Well, odds are that if you didn't arrange payment before they left, you weren't planning on getting paid in the first place. Of course, if you were promised to be paid appropriately for your services, and then they paid you with the necklace instead, that's pretty bad, but that's probably not the case. I would have to say YDI for expecting payment without first setting up an agreement with the parents.
Luckster 0
Simple solution--never babysit for them again!
hartbrakekid 0
awwaww that sucks. u dont deserve that. but its FREAKIN HILARIOUS! he he
crazy_life44 0
I think you learned some great lessons here. Don't have kids to early if you can't handle the responsibility and you don't always get what you want and mothers do NOT get paid what they should. I bet it's a nice shark necklace.