So I recently got hired to be a part-time nanny for a family-- the pay is good, the hours are good, the family is good, I'm happy to have found a job, especially as I'm going out of my mind from boredom from not working.
When I accepted the job I fucked on a few things just because I haven't done this before, and I'm fine with letting most of them go (some tax stuff) except for this vacation days thing. My employer gets 5 weeks of vacation so she told me I can just take 5 weeks when she takes time off from work. I said OK at the time but it really didn't sit well with me. Like why should I have to take vacation when you want to? I can't plan any vacations or trips for myself? What if you don't want to take any vacation days during the summer and only during the winter, I can't have a beach holiday?
However I said OK because I assumed that was just the way it works for nannies, but since then I've been told that a lot of nannies negotiate with their employers to do half and half-- the employer picks half the days and the nanny picks the other half. I feel like this is more reasonable. We haven't put any of this in writing or into a contract, and it was just briefly discussed during my first interview. The woman has never had a nanny before and she was pretty clueless about the whole process, so I don't think she was trying to fuck me over in regards to it, just assumed that's how it goes.
I start work on Monday and the first few weeks are kind of trial days to show me how things work and get used to being around her kids before she begins work, so I don't see the point in bringing it up Monday since things may go horrible and we decide it doesn't work out. But I'm trying to think of the best way to bring it up? She wants to do a salary evaluation in three months to increase my salary by 15% if things are going well, but I don't really want to have to wait 3 months to bring it up.




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There's no reason bringing up your vacation arrangements later will be worse than now, in fact I think if you bring it up now, when you've not even really started, it could come across as being pushy & getting way ahead of yourself.



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