Nanny Gets Fired After Being Caught Red-Handed Faking A Sick Day To Hang Out With Friends

Author image for abbyadler
abbyadler
Nov 6, 2021 4:00 PM EDT

Whether it be vacation days or mental health days, we all need a break from work once in a while. In today's 'Am I The A$$hole?' post, OP shared how her nanny has been slacking off on the job recently. Even though OP and her husband gave her many warnings, she kept messing up. One day, she took a sick day when OP really needed her to be with the kids. OP ended seeing her out in public with her friends, which was a clear indication that she wasn't actually sick. OP took her aside and fired her immediately, but the nanny's friends figured out what was going on based on her distraught reaction and approached OP and yelled at her for being a Karen. Who do you think is in the wrong? Scroll down for all the dramatic details. 

Add as a preferred
source on Google
Advertisement
  • 01
    Water - Posted by u/Entire_Caterpillar55 11 hours ago AITA for firing my nanny for faking sick to get out of working? My husband and I hired a nanny back in August to care for our kids while we're working. The kids are on a weird schedule at school where they don't attend every day or all day so we hired a full-time nanny, "Marie". We liked Marie, despite some issues with her following guidelines we'd discussed when we hired her: she let the kids have way too much screen time, she spent more tim
    via u/Entire_Caterpillar55

    Marie's already messed it up from the get-go according to the opening paragraph. 

  • 02
    Facial expression - clean up after them, she had friends over without letting us know, she let the kids pig out on junk food instead of feeding them real food. All of this had been discussed when we hired her, and we saw it all when we reviewed our security cam footage, so we sat her down about three different times and gave her official warnings each time. She'd improve for a while each time but go back to the way she'd been before.
    via u/Entire_Caterpillar55

    She's already received many warnings from the parents. 

  • 03
    Font - Three days Marie called out, said she was really sick, so I told her to get better and I'd call out from work to be with the kids. I'm in the middle of a big project at work and people not coming hurt everyone but I'm a mom first and I don't expect Marie to take care of the kids if she feels sick so I called out. The next day it was really hot out and the local water park is running an off-season special with cheap tickets so I took the kids and after a while we ran into Marie with a grou
    via u/Entire_Caterpillar55
  • 04
    Font - I told her I would have if only she'd told me the truth. I explained to her that she'd lied to me and made me call out at a time that was really inconvenient and if she'd just told me the truth then I'd have understood and I would have been happy to give her the day off and call out myself, it's the fact that she lied to me is what upset me. I added the lie to her other warnings and decided she wasn't worth keeping employed. My husband and I pay well-above market rate and we provide every
    via u/Entire_Caterpillar55
  • 05
    Font - EDIT: Marie is not some teenager, she's a 26 year old woman with a a degree in Early Childhood Education and some other certifications/licenses related to the field. She's had one previous long-term nannying job, classroom experience, and she has several younger siblings and relatives and an extensive babysitting career, all of this I verified, along with a good review from her former position. I had no reason to suspect she was less than she presented.
    via u/Entire_Caterpillar55
  • 06
    Human body - louisebelcher99 · 11h NTA. But extremely inappropriate to fire her whilst out at the park. Should of waited till the next day to talk with her or called her later that evening.
    via u/louisebelcher99
  • 07
    Font - lotsofcache· 10h And not in front of the kids. NTA
    via u/lotsofcache
  • 08
    Font - saucynoodlelover · 10h Asshole Enthusiast [7] Yeah, firing Marie on the spot at the water park sounded really vindictive. But I don't think that necessarily makes OP an AH. I can imagine plenty of people saying, "you know what, don't bother coming in tomorrow or again." Just makes OP unwise. OP was probably just caught up in her feelings and not thinking of the whole picture.
    via u/saucynoodlelover
  • 09
    Font - nurse_krachet · 1h NTA it wasn't vindictive. Marie had lots of warnings. She had an entire file of stuff that was going wrong. Frankly,NJ thought she was talking about a 14 year old not a 26 year old when she mentioned what she was doing. She put the kids in danger as she was acting more like a child than the children. I would have fired Marie on the spot as well. This is the equivalent of firing an employee that is late for the 100th time.
    via u/nurse_krachet
  • 10
    Font - saucynoodlelover · 1h Asshole Enthusiast [7] Agreed. I was kind of still figuring out how I felt about it while typing my comment. At first, I thought, "well, you ruined Marie's experience at the water park" but then I thought, not OP's responsibility to let Marie enjoy the rest of the trip. OP's trip got ruined too. Even if she hadn't said anything, OP's mood was soured, and her kids would have noticed. And then OP would have spent the whole evening stewing. Better to end it there and th
    via u/saucynoodlelover
  • 11
    Human body - Sacdiv · 9h NTA - I think that was just the icing on the cake of a bunch of other issues. She doesn't sound like she was ready for a job and responsibility. Although, I will say that I would have waited until the next day when she came to work to fire her..it is just more professional.
    via u/Sacdiv
  • 12
    Rectangle - ThrowawayGuru777 · 1h I agree, I think people, breezed over the fact that she called out for three days, she wanted one day off for the water Park, why did she take 3 days off? The woman / girl had too many strikes against her and this was the straw that broke the camel's back I'd say.
    via u/ThrowawayGuru777
  • 13
    Font - uebbi · 3h I'm torn here. In the one hand, yes firing at the job would seem like the way to go. On the other hand, OP was rightfully annoyed by Marie's behavoiur so I totally get that she got carried away. And I don't see a problem in doing it with Marie's friends present. Why not let them know that Marie is not doing her job right and faking sicknesses. The real problem imo is, that OPs kids were present. They didn't need to see or hear that. Even though that wasn't really OPs fault eith
    via u/uebbi
  • 14
    Human body - RepresentativeOk5968 · 3h Why not there? She took her aside away from others and let her know the deal in the moment. Remember this nanny had inconvenienced her employer by her lies. I would have done the same. I'm not wasting more of my time on somebody who is fine wasting mine.
    via u/RepresentativeOk5968
  • 15
    Smile - zeiaxar · 11h NTA. The stuff you mention is enough cause to fire her alone. Most business places have a 3 write-ups and you're fired policy. She's gone beyond this, by lying to you about being sick so she wouldn't have to work, and got caught red-handed. She'd be fired by anyone else for this no matter what field she worked in.
    via u/zeiaxar

    Like what you see? Find more hilarious women's memes and crazy stories on our Instagram @Cheezcake_Humor. 

Tags

aita sick day kids nanny reddit thread
Scroll Down For The Next Article