WWYD? Re: Pet sitter

[Aliceacc]

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Based on the responses here I can see why so many teens are the way they are.

Delicate little flowers who can't hear anything negative or their fragile psyche might be damaged. People tend to live up or down to our expectations of them.

The kid was hired for a job. She didn't do the job as specified. It doesn't matter what she or anyone else thinks of the "directives" of the job. Once she agreed to do the job she agreed to follow those directives. If she didn't want to follow the directives, then she shouldn't have accepted the job.

You're nicer than me OP. If I had hired her to come 4 times at say...$10 per visit, she'd have been paid $30 because she missed a visit. "

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(Sorry, my reply is in response to a comment that landed on the prior page. It doesn't make much sense if you can't see what I'm replying to.)


In my experience, we should be thanking God that so many teens "are the way they are."

In the 31 years I've been teaching high school I've found that the vast majority of teens are wonderful, selfless, caring g people who go above and beyond a lot more often than one might think.

Of course the teen in this thread dropped the ball. But the image of a generation of self centered snowflakes simply does not match my considerable experience with teens

 

[Nancyg56]

In my experience, we should be thanking God that so many teens "are the way they are."

In the 31 years I've been teaching high school I've found that the vast majority of teens are wonderful, selfless, caring g people who go above and beyond a lot more often than one might think.

Of course the teen in this thread dropped the ball. It the image of a generation of self centered snowflakes simply does not match my considerable experience with teens

It does not match mine either. The majority of young people I have encountered are not like the teen in this thread. They are focused, kind and compassionate. WE have a small farm and if the kids I hire are an indication of what tomorrows adults will be, we are going to be very fortunate. They are impressive.

 

[Southernmiss]

In my experience, we should be thanking God that so many teens "are the way they are."

In the 31 years I've been teaching high school I've found that the vast majority of teens are wonderful, selfless, caring g people who go above and beyond a lot more often than one might think.

Of course the teen in this thread dropped the ball. But the image of a generation of self centered snowflakes simply does not match my considerable experience with teens

Yep. The teens and 20-30 somethings I know are kind, compassionate, very accepting of other's differences in race, culture and creed, reliable, dependable, very involved in their school, community and work.

One misstep by a young person only one person in this thread knows and now the whole world is falling apart...

 

[Scootypuffjr]

FWIW, I just went through the same thing with our new(er) dog sitter. We hired her (and paid her well) to stay with our dogs at night while we were away. We don't kennel them because they are rescues and get very anxious and those types of facilities because they think we are abandoning them. The girl we hired is in her 20's. We saw on our security cameras that she did not stay the first night. That was it for us. Our friends picked them up that day and our old dog sitter took over a few days later. The dogs chewed up our couches in the basement, which they never do, I'm sure because they have never been left alone all night. I didn't want to have an altercation while we were out of town, so I told her a friend needed a place to stay and was going to watch our dogs. I had paid her half up front, and told her she could keep it but she needed to drop the keys off asap (which she did). We had used her before for a very short weekend trip prior to the cameras and now I feel stupid because I'm sure she did the same thing then too. She is scheduled to watch our dogs two more times in the next few months and I plan to text her sometime this week and tell her that her services are no longer required, she did not provide the care that we agreed upon and leave it at that.

 

[MataHari22]

Based on the responses here I can see why so many teens are the way they are.

Delicate little flowers who can't hear anything negative or their fragile psyche might be damaged. People tend to live up or down to our expectations of them.

The kid was hired for a job. She didn't do the job as specified. It doesn't matter what she or anyone else thinks of the "directives" of the job. Once she agreed to do the job she agreed to follow those directives. If she didn't want to follow the directives, then she shouldn't have accepted the job.

You're nicer than me OP. If I had hired her to come 4 times at say...$10 per visit, she'd have been paid $30 because she missed a visit.

When I first became a manager, I could not understand why a lot of kids were like they were. I tried my best to role model an excellent work ethic, teach, mentor and show them what is expected when you have a job, and then, I'd meet the parents, and I would understand why that particular kid, was like they were. There were parents that allowed their kids to lie, parents that thought it was perfectly fine to eat food that their kid did not pay for, that thought it was acceptable to allow their kid to call off sick for a scheduled shift because their precious snowflake neglected to request off for work.... I could go on and on. I wish I had $5 for every parent that came in and confronted me, sticking up for their kid that didn't do their job and or did something really wrong. They'd come in and try and yell at me, and get me to change my mind. Yeah, not happening. And good luck with your child if you keep allowing them to lie, steal, and not show up for work.

ETA: I'm not saying all teens are like this. A large chunk of the kids that worked for me, were great. I still keep in touch with a lot of them today. Quite a lot are moms and dads now, and have wonderful lives with excellent jobs, and I'm very proud of them. For a majority of them, i gave them their first job.

 

[wilkeliza]

When I first became a manager, I could not understand why a lot of kids were like they were. I tried my best to role model an excellent work ethic, teach, mentor and show them what is expected when you have a job, and then, I'd meet the parents, and I would understand why that particular kid, was like they were. There were parents that allowed their kids to lie, parents that thought it was perfectly fine to eat food that their kid did not pay for, that thought it was acceptable to allow their kid to call off sick for a scheduled shift because their precious snowflake neglected to request off for work.... I could go on and on. I wish I had $5 for every parent that came in and confronted me, sticking up for their kid that didn't do their job and or did something really wrong. They'd come in and try and yell at me, and get me to change my mind. Yeah, not happening. And good luck with your child if you keep allowing them to lie, steal, and not show up for work.

ETA: I'm not saying all teens are like this. A large chunk of the kids that worked for me, were great. I still keep in touch with a lot of them today. Quite a lot are moms and dads now, and have wonderful lives with excellent jobs, and I'm very proud of them. For a majority of them, i gave them their first job.

I'm still pretty young but when I was a lead at a coffee shop if anyone's mama or daddy came in to talk to me about their kid then they would get a rude awakening when Jr didn't have a job any more. Part of being in the workforce is learning to fight your own battles.

 

[ibob52]

... seems to me you should hire a professional.

Not only will you get the job done more to your expectations

but you will be able to *not* get upset when you are viewing the security system footage

when you are away (I would think that is worth something)

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Perhaps her Mom posted on FB (or whatever) that her Daughter was available

to do House sitting etc .. But her Daughter did not have any interest in doing

the Job or any job (other than maybe just for the money)