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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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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Comments (132)
lovexinstead 0
YDI for saying "i just got done".
White667 0
Not really, they're family, if he wanted payment he should've outlined the cost before he agreed to look after them. A couple who just spent a load of money going on holiday aren't then going to waste a couple hundred on their nephew when, as far as they know, his not expecting anything.
mumafiedmustangs 0
demand minimum wage
rachelbrianna25 0
Yeah, that's ridiculous. You watched two kids for four days and didn't get any cash in return. That sucks. I had something kind of similar happen to me. My aunt asked me to watch her cat for a whole week. I wanted to, but my boyfriend is allergic to cats. She begged me to watch her cat. I agreed. I watched this damn cat and didn't see my boyfriend hardly at all. Then when I got rid of the cat I had to air out my apt for 2 days! On top of it all, I got nothing in return from my aunt. NOTHING! I definitely learned from that one! Sucks!! Feel ya!!
andrewms 0
you sound pretty ******* ungrateful; think of how you where able to share time with those kids while you still had time... even if it was "hell".
oliviahere 0
You don't pay family stupid. You never pay family to babysit, it should be 'enjoyable'. If you didn't want to you didn't have to.
skierguy 0
It's called a favour. Maybe they'll pay it back some day.
Panther_fml 0
YDI for being ungrateful.
oopsie_daisy8446 0
that's over a dollar a day you whiny bitch! don't complain! *evil smile* hehehehehheh.
czechmate 0
If it's a kid or something then Hell ******* yes, he should get payed, you don't dump off your kids on someone, especially if the kids are young and demanding of attention, and pay the person 5 ******* dollars and a cheap necklace. he should have gotten like 10 dollars a day for that shit. **** you all, the only reason you say he's ungrateful is because you're 40 and didn't have shit growing up, so now you resent today's generation for having more than you did. It's also pathetic that you sit in your mom's basement masturbating and lecturing people you don't know online for being "ungrateful"
dabomblyktiktikk 0
im14 and i think that if he didnt discuss compensation, he shouldn't have expected to get paid. they're his family, he should have just wanted to do them a favor. it would have been nice if they had given him money, yes, but he shouldnt be whining about it. -.- i like ur username tho :)