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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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, I babysat the most annoying and obnoxious kids for almost eight hours, when the parents assured me that they would only be gone about three or so hours. After constant calling and worrying, they finally showed up at 11:30, completely drunk. The mother paid me with three dollars and a banana. FML
Today, I'm babysitting kids whose parents said they would be back by 12. Its 4 a.m. and they still aren't home. I don't get paid enough for this. 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
Today, I was babysitting a couple of kids. I'd spent time with them before, so I brought my video game console to play with them. I forgot to take it home with me. They soon sold it to another kid for $10. FML
Today, I babysat the brattiest and most foul-mouthed 8-year-old I've ever met. After I survived three hours of it, his parents finally came home. He claimed I'd invited a boy over and that we did "stuff" on the couch all evening. They believed him. I didn't get paid, to say the least. FML
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'm babysitting three children under the age of seven. They have no discipline, don't listen, scream all the time, won't nap, terrorize my dog, and have peed their pants a collective 5 times today. I am not getting paid for this. Their mother has no plans to come get them any time soon. FML
Today, I babysat a kid who was such a bratty little prick that I actually considered walking out on the job. After his mom finally got home 4 hours later, he called her a slut. When he got in trouble for it, he claimed that I taught him the word. Needless to say, I didn't get paid. 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
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anniebananie 3
Why didn't you say anything?! Stand up for yourself!
Alister09 0
I would say Hmm...$5 for 8 kids under 10? I think I'll tell everyone that goes to my school that you're cheap and you'll never be able to get a babysitter again!
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Comments (180)
hannahMlover_not 0
5 dollars an hour?!?!?!
tingting1 0
try again...
polkadot1196 0
No. 1 dollar per hour smart one. The same thing happened two me. I babysat 9 kids from australian. 5 of them were between the ages of 2-6 the rest were between 7-10. I babysat 4 hours and got payed $10. But then they said they were joking and gave me 40 dollars more. FYL
iKaite 0
Five dollars an hour?! The way he said that you make her sound like a hooker.
MsTs1 0
sue them
CDS09 0
I never baby sat, but I remember when I was a kid all the new baby sitters would always tell my parents the rates first....isnt that standard? that way you avoid things like this.....or am I missing something?
ChiliRamen 0
try $1 per hour. This is why you discuss your wages before you take the job.
bwgmacattack 0
The same thing happened two you? Do you mean too?
femmeixifatality 0
No, she means "to" you. Third time's a charm, I guess!
ilovefatcats 12
lie...
NatzSwifey 0
what? what r u doing wrong? I live in Australia and when I babysit I get paid at least $20/hr for 2 kids and $25/hr for 3 kids etc
luvdatglitter 0
shoulda set a price before u went
Gorsbug823 0
lie
lailax3 0
hm I do that onna weekly basis for free.
molly12345 7
FYL
tigerborn69 18
how does one conceive so many children
Mcstud1y 30
One buddy
Masenko7 12
at least u got 1$ for every hour
Lolpizza_fml 0
i get payed $10 an hour with one kid. refuse to babysit them. babysit some rich ppl! ;)
megamango 0
oh that blows! btw... first!
hannahMlover_not 0
u r not first and no one cares if u r!
Ohnothingreally 0
Nevermind...
CluelessOne 0
Care enough to post about it.
Alister09 0
I would say Hmm...$5 for 8 kids under 10? I think I'll tell everyone that goes to my school that you're cheap and you'll never be able to get a babysitter again!
kcmjlopez 0
That's actually a good idea, they wouldn't be able to find someone after that.
firebird94 0
thats when you be VERY nice and then ask if you can babysit their angels again. if they hire you again steal their nice items and things like that
BuckyC60 0
yeah, but this may actually get the person in trouble. I would tell them that I would babysit for them again, then when they called I would say that I would go. A couple minutes before you are supposed to be there I would tell them I got some other plans and will not be able to babysit after all, let them frantically look for another babysitter and ruin their plans for the evening for being such cheapskates. at least this one will not get the law involved.
kukopia 0
Either babysit again and feed the kids redbull and prunce juice right before they'll get home. - or - Agree to babysit again, call 15 mins AFTER you're suppose to be there and say you remembered what cheap bastards they are. Definitely tell EVERYONE how cheap they are. To cheap to buy condoms!
tingting1 0
wow.. what a rip off... that sucks :/ at least you know never to work for them again
epicwinmaster 0
FIRST!!!!
ImJustJoking 0
ALL ABOARD THE FAIL TRAIN!
theroofisonfire 0
CHOO CHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wutupbruh 0
these two comments win in a major way
TheLoneWolf87 4
OH NO FAIL TRAIN DERAILMENT IT'S ROFLCOPTER TO THE RESCUE!!!
Desertman123 4
THE FAILBOAT CURRENTLY NEEDS RESCUING WITH THE ROFLCOPTER
mattmalin11 0
OH NOES! ROFLCOPTER CRASHED INTO THE FAILBOAT! EMERGENCY RESCUE BY THE PWNJET!!
lmfao25 0
UH-OHH! THE PWNJET GOT SHOT BY THE CANNONS ON THE FAILBOAT AND IS NOW SPIRALING DOWN INTO THE OCEAN OF DENIAL !!
bhahahalldaylong 0
@ #109 ...man you ruined it all..
xtfauthorx 0
#109 needs to an hero. RIGHT NOW
anniebananie 3
Why didn't you say anything?! Stand up for yourself!
gothicwench 0
Yeah seriously, you should've stood your ground and said that was too little for the work you did. In the future though, discuss rates of pay beforehand so they can't screw you over.
caulked 0
oh, that's awful. i would be so livid if that happened to me; fyl.
BrianA1993 0
YDI. Whenever you babysit, specify how much you want per hour beforehand. for 8 kids I would easily say 25-30 bucks per hour is possible. Also, stand up for yourself.
cljc 1
agreed.
synix 0
On fmylife everything is your fault.
boatkicker 5
Even if you do agree on a payment before hand, that's not guarantee they will actually pay that ammount. I babysat 7 kids 5 days a week 9hours a day for three weeks (when I finally said "find a new babysitter"). I got $15. Total. The agreed on payment was $15 a day.
sika_fml 0
You agreed on $15 per day!? Well they just knew right then that you were stupid.
boatkicker 5
Actually I was technically watching them for free. The parents couldn't afford a sitter. The $15 was for food because I was babysitting at my own house, which means they were eating my food. I felt bad for the people, and the kids were nice. I didn't have the money to keep feeding the kids and if the parents weren't going to give me anything I couldn't keep watching them.
piles_of_fail 0
holy shit #11....you'd never get hired again if you wanted that much per hour!!
kcmjlopez 0
Actually that rate is cheap to normal if they took them to a daycare, for 8 kids.