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Nanny not providing photos for school homework

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gen1814 · 14/08/2015 14:05

I don't think there is anything I can do but my nanny has just handed in her notice and promptly gone sick. (with sick note)

She has on her phone some pics she took of the children doing their summer homework which they need to compile a scrapbook for school.

I have asked her to forward them so the girls can do their homework but to date she has not been forthcoming. Of course, it may just be she has been too sick to do anything. But I have a bad feeling about this!

Is there anything I can do to get the pics for the children to do their homework?

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Blondeshavemorefun · 14/08/2015 23:26

I take lots of pics of the dc I look after and then send to parents via wats app and then tbh I delete them off my Phone as need the space :)

Wizzy that is a bit extreme

Op - sure nanny will send them. What are the photos - can you recreate

And don't leave homework till the last minute

Maybe as Leeds said nanny is actually poorly. Guess depends what the sick note is and how long she will be off

If you asked them today and she has gone to bed and turned phone off etc then see if she will reply /send tomorrow

Would like to think a nanny wouldn't be that petty not to send and ruin a child's homework .....

0x530x610x750x630x79 · 14/08/2015 23:32

Depends if the nanny is off with stress

giraffesCantBrushTheirTeeth · 15/08/2015 00:02

I have photos of nanny kids in my purse and up in my house - same with some of the old kids I have looked after - and of visitis I have had on holiday with them since they moved away! My home screen pic on my phone is me and my ex charge and my Gran died last year but she had a photo of my baby charge on her fireplace! (My boss sent it to her with a thank you card for the present she got him)

coolaschmoola · 15/08/2015 00:07

Employees who are off sick should not be contacted regarding their work, nanny or not. Op you shouldn't have contacted her about this whilst she is off sick.

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gen1814 · 15/08/2015 08:03

Thank you all for your responses, it is interesting and helpful to hear the different viewpoints, coolaschmoola I did not know that.

It's not as easy as just go recreating them. I am chronically ill which is why I have the help. These particular pics were taken somewhere I can't get to. I had offered her to use my camera to take the pics, but she said no it would be fine because she could take the pics on her phone and send them to me. I trusted her. She was well enough for 2 weeks before she was sick to send them.

She had also recently taken up a position that was in conflict of interest with her one here. I do have that in the contract, but I stupidly let her stay. My own fault. I guess I will have to write it off as experience. I'm just disappointed that she thinks so little of my children.

I don't know why she is sick, I haven't received the sick note, however she did respond to the one reminding her of when her timesheets needed to be in which was after this one.

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LIZS · 15/08/2015 08:06

If she has been off for more than a week you need the sick note. It is a shame about the photos but I think you have to let it go for now.

MythicalKings · 15/08/2015 08:08

No sick note, no pay for the time she's been off. She's let you and your DCs down very badly.

wizzywig · 15/08/2015 14:38

i just dont want people other than family keeping photos of my kids. whats wrong with that?

Iggi999 · 15/08/2015 14:44

Anyone could say they have a sick note, surely the point is to give it to the employer?

OutragedFromLeeds · 15/08/2015 14:54

There's nothing wrong with it, wizzy. It's just unusual and doesn't speak to a high level of trust. If you don't trust someone to have a photo of your DC, you almost certainly shouldn't allow them sole charge care of your DC for hours on end.

A good test for 'is this the right nanny for us?' could be...'would I be happy for them to have a photo of DC?'. If the answer is no, then probably not the nanny for you.

eeyore12 · 15/08/2015 20:24

I take photos of my charges and email them etc to my boss but also keep them on my phone as I make each family a photobook of our time together whenever I leave. Re thinking this now though and will just email them all over and then delete them. Will always send them over as soon as I have wifi after the event though.

Op hope you get them soon.

OutragedFromLeeds · 15/08/2015 21:24

I do the same eeyore re. the photobook. I wouldn't stop doing it just because some people are a bit funny about photographs of their DC. All the families I've done it for have really loved it, it would be a shame if they had to miss out imo.

Blondeshavemorefun · 17/08/2015 21:26

Did you hear back from your nanny / get pics?

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gen1814 · 17/08/2015 22:28

no, no news yet. no sick note either.

Thanks for asking Blondeshavemorefun

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Blondeshavemorefun · 18/08/2015 08:26

No sick note. No pay

Pay her ssp which I think is £88 ish a week instead of wages and sure she will contact you ......

Blondeshavemorefun · 18/08/2015 08:27

Bloody petty of her do not send pics !!!!

softhedgehog · 18/08/2015 08:52

surely no sick note after 1 week = no SSP?

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gen1814 · 19/08/2015 22:09

I reminded her yesterday again about her timesheets needing to be in. no reply, no email, no phone call, no note through the door, and no sick note.

However, she was spotted at her boyfriend's down the very same road as me.

Well enough to see boyfriend says to me well enough to pop sick note through the door and complete timesheet.

Needless to say, still no photos.

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