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In a small town in Canada, a young couple was in search of a reliable babysitter for their two-year-old child, and they needed someone available 2-3 times a week due to their various commitments. After conducting several interviews, they came across a retired lady who seemed like a good fit for the job. The couple offered to pay her $15 an hour for a minimum of 4 hours a day. The lady initially insisted on taking the bus to their home, but eventually, the couple began picking her up in their car.
The initial arrangement was fairly straightforward, with the babysitter caring for the child and occasionally ordering takeout for supper, with an extra $60 allotted for this purpose. Over time, the babysitter started sharing her life’s hardships with the couple, often going into long rants about her financial difficulties. She talked about rising rent costs, high utility bills, and how she couldn’t afford Christmas. Amid these conversations, she made strange and inappropriate remarks, including some that had racial undertones.
The situation took a turn for the worse when the babysitter asked the couple for a significant amount of money, $8,000, for her son’s tuition. She claimed she would pay them back, although the couple was uncomfortable with this request and unsure of how she could manage to repay such a substantial sum.
As tensions rose, the couple decided to part ways with the babysitter, no longer wanting to deal with the uncomfortable financial requests and the inappropriate comments. Now the OP’s husband thinks that it was unfair to fire her and that OP was being petty now OP wants to know whether she’s an A-hole for no longer wanting the babysitter.
1. OP interviewed several people for babysitting about 2 to 3 times a week and OP offered about $15 an hour for a two-year-old, OP met a retired lady who would be available for the job. She insisted on taking a bus to OP but OP went to pick her up in her car.
2. OP told the viewers that she would usually rant about how hard her life was so OP felt bad and increased her pay rate up to $30 an hour
3. One day she saw OP opening her bank account which she and her husband share and she started pointing out how they must be living the high life, after that she started whining about money problems which made OP uncomfortable.
4. After making that rac*** remark she started asking for $8000 for her son’s tuition at first, OP ignored but then she asked again insisting that she would pay back, this made OP more uncomfortable.
5. After listening to rants and whining about everything from her OP said she doesn’t need a babysitter anymore she has canceled all of her therapist appointments
6. Now OP’s husband thinks she was being petty by not wanting to hire her anymore moreover, he’s also upset because the babysitter is friends with his mom. And now she is telling people they fired her and made her life difficult.
7. OP doesn’t know if she’s being unreasonable for not wanting her back so she asked the Redditors to shed their thoughts about it, keep on scrolling to find out.
8. NTA
9. Users said they wouldn’t want her around their kids because of her bitter and whiny nature
10. She is definitely desperate moreover, she now knows how much money they have and it could turn into a threat so it is better to not take any chances.
11. OP is offering a good amount for the babysitting we hope she’ll get a better babysitter
12. Exactly, peeking into your bank account and then asking for money is a red flag that no one would want.
13. A fair point made by this user, what do you think?
14. Absoultely right!
15. She was there to make her life better not worse
16. Now this is a reason to be concerned
17. You are hiring an employee to perform essential tasks, not running a charity. NTA.
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