Erin RUTH ([personal profile] lesmisloony) wrote2012-02-20 06:53 pm
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Host Mom: *walking straight into my room* Ehreen? What are we eating for dinner tonight?
Me: Uhh I don't know? The last two times I started to make dinner your mother told me she had already done it, so...
Host Mom: So-- *wrinkles her nose, looks around my room* You need to open the windows. There's a smell in here. You have to open the windows more often. I don't know if it's your shoes, or-- you don't smell it?
Me: No?
Host Mom: Well it smells. Anyway, will you go buy some bread?
Me: Okay...
Host Mom: So we don't know what we're eating for dinner tonight. *walks away*

(What does buying bread have to do with childcare?)

I'm just gonna start doing this.

[identity profile] mmejavert.livejournal.com 2012-02-20 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't know you got a raise to be their maid, cook, AND au pair...

Can you complain about this to someone? Because I would. You're being paid to take care of their children. If cooking for the family and shopping for the family aren't part of the contract, tell 'em no.

[identity profile] collectingbees.livejournal.com 2012-02-20 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
WHAT A BITCH

[identity profile] mmebahorel.livejournal.com 2012-02-20 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Just remember - stealing bread makes it difficult to continue to provide childcare.

Seriously, talk to your agency/program manager/whatever to clarify the terms of the contract. Then, having proved you're completely in the right, ask them what should be done about a family who is not abiding by the terms of the contract. This needs to go up to the agency level, just like [livejournal.com profile] mmejavert says.

[identity profile] miss-bushido.livejournal.com 2012-02-21 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, REALLY?!