This Mom’s Requirements For A Babysitter Are So Crazy Someone Posted It On A Shaming Group
Looking for a babysitter can be tough, especially if you need to look outside the circle of close friends and family. You’re essentially inviting a stranger into your home to care for your precious progeny, so it’s perfectly understandable to have some basic requirements for this person, who you’ll invest so much trust in. (Facebook cover image: Michael Coghlan)
Image credits: SupportPDX (not the actual photo)
This mom took this concept and ran with it to the hills. The post, originally found on Facebook but shared on the subreddit ChoosingBeggars, attracted the astonishment of many, who just couldn’t believe how delusional a person can be. Some of the requests, like having a car and driving license, are perfectly reasonable. But no traffic tickets or problems with the law? This could also be forgiven if she didn’t immediately propose tax evasion while offering her minuscule payment for all these services, which also include teaching her children a language, taking care of the two pit bulls and paying for snacks too.
The final request sheds some light on matters, this mom is clearly accustomed to living with a certain amount of cognitive dissonance. The thread sparked an interesting discussion about acceptable rates for childcare, as well as some funny observations about the sheer nerve of this deluded mom.
It's a trap: she'll immediately be in breach of contract, as soon as she accepts her first under the table cash, no tax deducted payment, since number 7 clearly states "no problems with the law."
100% attendance under the worst conditions ever, but with no promise of regular work, and she must be willing to pay for the children's "snacks" and $10 an hour for three children, and be an english (white) person. No wonder she's a Trump fan, she's a self-entitled creep. She also doesn't understand that no one with those qualifications would accept such a horrible proposition.
9 years experience ... her oldest kid is 5, so even the mother won't be accept for this job ! lol
Trump supporter looking for a bilingual babysitter threw me off for a minute
Load More Replies...Must be a Trump fan and have a bachelor's in child care. No run-ins with the law. Does Trump University offer this degree? Ironic that the Donald would be rejected for this position for his "run-ins" and his "university" was adjudged to be a fraud - which is another crime!
There is such a thing as a degree in Early Childhood Education...that may be what she meant. However, specialists like that can demand pretty good salaries - better than most teachers.
Load More Replies...$10 per hour and I have to pay for snacks. Did you fall and bump you head?
I absolutely pity this woman's children.....she sounds like a bloody ogre....
I'm surprised that people haven't noticed that she's trying to hire a nanny AND a petsitter for $10/hr. I bet she has a bumper sticker that says "Repeal the 13th"
this "mom?" is searching for a free slave, not a baby sitter. and what does "Trump's fan" has anything to do with baby sitting? does Trump is teaching baby sitter or something? she's nuts
She doesn't want any snowflake liberals influencing her children with compassion and facts
Load More Replies...Cash payment is fine if you are working very part time and not making a lot of money. I am payed in cash and find it more convenient. For something like this though it is super sketchy.
Load More Replies...my eyes rolled so hard they like...popped! lol, that has never happened before!
Why 9 years? Why is that a magic number? Why not 10 or 8? Looks like she is wanting a nanny but for cheap, babysitter wages. And it only makes sense that she is a Trump supporter since she is only offering $10/hour and having to pay for snacks occasionally.
She also doesn't know how to spell Pit bull even though she has two, but ok...
Probably wants a qualification in animal husbandry too - for the Pitts - wonder if they are called Brad and Angelina?
Load More Replies...Some people are weird. I inquired about a private rental one time, just for funsies- the person renting reached out to me with a list of requirements and one of them was: Must be a God fearing citizen. Needless to say, we didn't follow up on that.
While that is illegal (discrimination), a renter certainly doesn't want to talk god with the landlord.
Load More Replies...And this is why people, abortion should be legalized all over and promoted. Coz some people just shouldn't have babies, nd their parents shouldn't have either.
I have been a nanny for 15 years. This ad is pretty standard, unfortunately. Everyone wants to pay $10 for a bilingual, CPR and first-aid trained college graduate. Just have a look on care.com if you don't believe it.
Parents ultimately expect more from their nannies/daycare providers than they are willing to do themselves. Is the mom bilingual, CPR trained, fully bilingual and ECE educated? Unlikely
Load More Replies...i desperately want to find out who this lady is and see this post for myself and the comments she's received on it.
I see a couple other problems here: Being a "Trump Fan" means being ok with a man who's a pedophile. Not sure that's someone I want watching my kids. The other thing (encouraging the person to be an accomplice breaking the law while expecting 100% zero history of law-breaking) someone else mentioned.
She's basically asking for someone who's willing to work for the same wages the people she doesn't want in the US, immigrants, would probably work for with those same conditions. At least that's what I'm assuming since she's a Trump supporter... "Build the wall after I've hired someone."
All I can say is clearly you didn't want them children otherwise you'd be willing to offer more money for a reliable and responsible person don't even get me started on the pit bulls do you want a babysitter or a petsitter pick one
If you think this ad is REAL, then I have some beachfront property to sell you in Kansas!
Load More Replies...Ok - here is a ridiculous - real life scenario of proving ID to be employed by an agency to work with Vulnerable People - I just cracked up it was so ridiculous - tell me if you want me to go on
My CV was fine - they wanted to employ me - I had many years experience(which I had references for. but they wanted many loads of ID. The Police records showing I had no record of any crime were not enough.I dont drive - so have no driving licence - clean or otherwise My utility bills proving I had lived at my adress for 5 years - were not enough. My slightly expired passport was not enough. my utility bills were not enough. My references were not enough. They wanted a divorce certificate - WHY??. The questions they asked were were ridiculous. the final question. This is for an admin job at a retirement home - Do you have a shotgun certificate? - that would be ok for ID for the job" - elderley people at a rest home - FFS - This is 100% true - I could even dig out the e-mail requesting it just wanna give up sometimes - i mean -- your other references are hard to verify - but a shotgun certificate is fine???
Load More Replies...TwiceRice23: Dingdingding! You win the prize for being one of the only ones smart enough to see that this is a completely FAKE ad.
Load More Replies...While this is absolutely terrible and disgusting that the woman is expecting this of a babysitter", what is it the sudden increase in "shaming groups"? Do we really need online groups specifically to shame people?
So, basically she wants somebody born in America (‘English speaking’ ‘Trump supporter’) who is also fluent in a second language, has a college degree but no job (‘open availability’ ‘100% attendance’), has extensive childcare experience but no children of their own (‘open availability’ ‘$10/hr’), and despite the ambition and education (‘bachelor’s degree’) needed to drive, feed, and teach three kids under the age of six, is willing to work for $10 an hour. Oh, and they have to be the kind of person whose morals allow them to accept under the table pay that they can either claim and pay taxes on later or not claim at all and risk an audit or legal action, but they can’t have tattoos or drink socially or do anything on social media that looks less than perfect. TOTAL ENTITLED DELUSIONAL PSYCHO.
People are so gullible. And I thought Utah was full of gullible people. That state doesn't have anything on all the people who think this ad was a real ad on Facebook. There are a bunch of teenagers laughing their butts off at everyone who believes this ad is real.
a 2nd language, is that like native baltimorean or dundalkian? where i grew up it's kind of a different accent and slight language of it's own...also same when i lives in SE louisiana neaar new orleans~
No, it's a complete fake troll ad. Any smart person knows a troll ad when they see one. Some teenagers are laughing their asses off at how gullible you all are.
Load More Replies...This is so obviously fake. They make the "republicans are a-holes" claim just blatant enough for the average reader to think they are making the inference for themselves. Calling BS.
Pretty sure this is fake, guys. Notice how they just slipped the "cool with Trump" bit in there?
And notice that all you got for telling it like it is was downvotes from the hateful mobs who are so blinded by their hatred for trump that they can't even recognize an OBVIOUSLY FAKE ad.
Load More Replies...I had that 'would be worried if someone with a degree works for 10 dollar''. I am a child nurse, female, 28 years old. Moved to a new town. I saw an add in the local supermarket for a babysitter. I thought about the awesome experiences I had as a teen as babysitter, how bored I am in the evenings in this new city because I don't know anyone, and this might be a fun thing to do to get to know more people in the neighbourhood and have something fun and usefull to do in the evening. So I responded, telling about myself. She asked how much I wanted to be paid. I hadn't thought about that, I don't really need the money, I have no clue what babysitters now-a-day ask, so I said the amount that I got as a teen; '5 dollars'. She went mental, said I asked too little as a registered nurse and I was a pedophile and she was going to report me. Well..okay..Geez. =/ Luckely I used an e-mail adres which has not my real name in it but a fake name (I work with children that are victim of criminal parents, due to my own protection, and my friends and family, and others like me, it is a safety procaution to go by an other name.) because if she actually did report me for this I could have said bye-bye to my carreer since I actually work with children... And there is 0% tolerance policy; better safe then sorry. Which is good; but also really annoying and wrecking when someone tells people that you are pedophile because you ask too little money.. one's illogical underbelly is my exit in my career and into wellfare. If I was a pedo comming for you children I probably knew the right amount to ask to not raise any suspicion *facepalm*
Holy.. What are these? The requirements that Mr Banks sang in Mary Poppins?
That mother, she obviously is narcistic or something... simple way to find you self a baby sitter is to call agency, they investigate all their employee and guarantee the job good done.
Mothers who use young people as slaves are disgracefull you have a choice between gving attention to the child/children, who are screaming, bored in playpens - or cleaning the house - you will be wrong whatever
sorry Maam - the children wanted attention -so I never got to clean out your wardrobe
Load More Replies...The thing is, I hired a sitter, based on a few good references. She abused my kids, stole from us, showed up late, no-showed, stole our car when she house sat for a weekend and threw a party as well.... she was only 17 so all her previous "run-ins" with the law were not out there because she was underage. The car theft and party weekend ended our relationship and the rest of it came out as my kids stopped being afraid of her to open up and tell me all the horror stories from when she was there. My children ended up with severe trust issues after that. I stopped even looking for sitters after that. It was horrible. You have to back-check babysitters. They are caring for the most precious possessions you have! And when your kids are traumatized by a sitter, it's not pretty or easy after that at all.
I'm so sorry for your kids. You definitely have to check and be vigilante about who you hire--you are not this woman.
Load More Replies...She's a bad mother. She doesn't care how stressed this nanny would be, being on call 24/7. Stressed nannies don't make for healthy children. If for no other reason, that one requirement makes the mom terrible.
Is she supposed to talk politics with the infants? All her claims are ridiculous, but the Trump reference surprised me the most.
Am I missing something... let's just imagine for a moment there actually is someone crazy enough to take this job. She is offering an "extra $10" if you like Trump. So if the person doesn't like Trump they are only getting $5/hour? What? I made more than that per hour in High School babysitting on weekend 30+ years ago.
"The final request sheds some light on matters, this mom is clearly accustomed to living with a certain amount of cognitive dissonance. " Well, well, we're not prejudiced at all, are we? (I'm no fan of the man, but a comment like that is super unprofessional.)
this is typical stay-at-home mother b******t. Never worked a day in her life yet still needs a babysitter even though she doesn't do anything, to begin with. These types of women are utterly stupid and only good for procreating.
This has nothing to do with being a stay at home mom. Stay at home mothers are doing valuable, important work. This is about entitlement, something plenty of people engaged in the formal labor economy have as well.
Load More Replies...Her requirements don't sound so horrible (well minus the child care BA...is that actually a thing? That aside...call me judgemental but I think I would prefer a nanny with no law issues for my baby as well if I had one=x), though she could've definitely worded them nicer...until you see the price. I'm not overly familiar with babysitter prices, let alone those in the US but for THREE kids and all her demands that's just wow.
Except she asks the babysitter to break the law by working under the table.
Load More Replies...I think I saw this same article somewhere else, but without the trump reference. I smell a rat. Yawn...
So you had to come here and whine about it? Colour me surprised.....
Load More Replies...It's a trap: she'll immediately be in breach of contract, as soon as she accepts her first under the table cash, no tax deducted payment, since number 7 clearly states "no problems with the law."
100% attendance under the worst conditions ever, but with no promise of regular work, and she must be willing to pay for the children's "snacks" and $10 an hour for three children, and be an english (white) person. No wonder she's a Trump fan, she's a self-entitled creep. She also doesn't understand that no one with those qualifications would accept such a horrible proposition.
9 years experience ... her oldest kid is 5, so even the mother won't be accept for this job ! lol
Trump supporter looking for a bilingual babysitter threw me off for a minute
Load More Replies...Must be a Trump fan and have a bachelor's in child care. No run-ins with the law. Does Trump University offer this degree? Ironic that the Donald would be rejected for this position for his "run-ins" and his "university" was adjudged to be a fraud - which is another crime!
There is such a thing as a degree in Early Childhood Education...that may be what she meant. However, specialists like that can demand pretty good salaries - better than most teachers.
Load More Replies...$10 per hour and I have to pay for snacks. Did you fall and bump you head?
I absolutely pity this woman's children.....she sounds like a bloody ogre....
I'm surprised that people haven't noticed that she's trying to hire a nanny AND a petsitter for $10/hr. I bet she has a bumper sticker that says "Repeal the 13th"
this "mom?" is searching for a free slave, not a baby sitter. and what does "Trump's fan" has anything to do with baby sitting? does Trump is teaching baby sitter or something? she's nuts
She doesn't want any snowflake liberals influencing her children with compassion and facts
Load More Replies...Cash payment is fine if you are working very part time and not making a lot of money. I am payed in cash and find it more convenient. For something like this though it is super sketchy.
Load More Replies...my eyes rolled so hard they like...popped! lol, that has never happened before!
Why 9 years? Why is that a magic number? Why not 10 or 8? Looks like she is wanting a nanny but for cheap, babysitter wages. And it only makes sense that she is a Trump supporter since she is only offering $10/hour and having to pay for snacks occasionally.
She also doesn't know how to spell Pit bull even though she has two, but ok...
Probably wants a qualification in animal husbandry too - for the Pitts - wonder if they are called Brad and Angelina?
Load More Replies...Some people are weird. I inquired about a private rental one time, just for funsies- the person renting reached out to me with a list of requirements and one of them was: Must be a God fearing citizen. Needless to say, we didn't follow up on that.
While that is illegal (discrimination), a renter certainly doesn't want to talk god with the landlord.
Load More Replies...And this is why people, abortion should be legalized all over and promoted. Coz some people just shouldn't have babies, nd their parents shouldn't have either.
I have been a nanny for 15 years. This ad is pretty standard, unfortunately. Everyone wants to pay $10 for a bilingual, CPR and first-aid trained college graduate. Just have a look on care.com if you don't believe it.
Parents ultimately expect more from their nannies/daycare providers than they are willing to do themselves. Is the mom bilingual, CPR trained, fully bilingual and ECE educated? Unlikely
Load More Replies...i desperately want to find out who this lady is and see this post for myself and the comments she's received on it.
I see a couple other problems here: Being a "Trump Fan" means being ok with a man who's a pedophile. Not sure that's someone I want watching my kids. The other thing (encouraging the person to be an accomplice breaking the law while expecting 100% zero history of law-breaking) someone else mentioned.
She's basically asking for someone who's willing to work for the same wages the people she doesn't want in the US, immigrants, would probably work for with those same conditions. At least that's what I'm assuming since she's a Trump supporter... "Build the wall after I've hired someone."
All I can say is clearly you didn't want them children otherwise you'd be willing to offer more money for a reliable and responsible person don't even get me started on the pit bulls do you want a babysitter or a petsitter pick one
If you think this ad is REAL, then I have some beachfront property to sell you in Kansas!
Load More Replies...Ok - here is a ridiculous - real life scenario of proving ID to be employed by an agency to work with Vulnerable People - I just cracked up it was so ridiculous - tell me if you want me to go on
My CV was fine - they wanted to employ me - I had many years experience(which I had references for. but they wanted many loads of ID. The Police records showing I had no record of any crime were not enough.I dont drive - so have no driving licence - clean or otherwise My utility bills proving I had lived at my adress for 5 years - were not enough. My slightly expired passport was not enough. my utility bills were not enough. My references were not enough. They wanted a divorce certificate - WHY??. The questions they asked were were ridiculous. the final question. This is for an admin job at a retirement home - Do you have a shotgun certificate? - that would be ok for ID for the job" - elderley people at a rest home - FFS - This is 100% true - I could even dig out the e-mail requesting it just wanna give up sometimes - i mean -- your other references are hard to verify - but a shotgun certificate is fine???
Load More Replies...TwiceRice23: Dingdingding! You win the prize for being one of the only ones smart enough to see that this is a completely FAKE ad.
Load More Replies...While this is absolutely terrible and disgusting that the woman is expecting this of a babysitter", what is it the sudden increase in "shaming groups"? Do we really need online groups specifically to shame people?
So, basically she wants somebody born in America (‘English speaking’ ‘Trump supporter’) who is also fluent in a second language, has a college degree but no job (‘open availability’ ‘100% attendance’), has extensive childcare experience but no children of their own (‘open availability’ ‘$10/hr’), and despite the ambition and education (‘bachelor’s degree’) needed to drive, feed, and teach three kids under the age of six, is willing to work for $10 an hour. Oh, and they have to be the kind of person whose morals allow them to accept under the table pay that they can either claim and pay taxes on later or not claim at all and risk an audit or legal action, but they can’t have tattoos or drink socially or do anything on social media that looks less than perfect. TOTAL ENTITLED DELUSIONAL PSYCHO.
People are so gullible. And I thought Utah was full of gullible people. That state doesn't have anything on all the people who think this ad was a real ad on Facebook. There are a bunch of teenagers laughing their butts off at everyone who believes this ad is real.
a 2nd language, is that like native baltimorean or dundalkian? where i grew up it's kind of a different accent and slight language of it's own...also same when i lives in SE louisiana neaar new orleans~
No, it's a complete fake troll ad. Any smart person knows a troll ad when they see one. Some teenagers are laughing their asses off at how gullible you all are.
Load More Replies...This is so obviously fake. They make the "republicans are a-holes" claim just blatant enough for the average reader to think they are making the inference for themselves. Calling BS.
Pretty sure this is fake, guys. Notice how they just slipped the "cool with Trump" bit in there?
And notice that all you got for telling it like it is was downvotes from the hateful mobs who are so blinded by their hatred for trump that they can't even recognize an OBVIOUSLY FAKE ad.
Load More Replies...I had that 'would be worried if someone with a degree works for 10 dollar''. I am a child nurse, female, 28 years old. Moved to a new town. I saw an add in the local supermarket for a babysitter. I thought about the awesome experiences I had as a teen as babysitter, how bored I am in the evenings in this new city because I don't know anyone, and this might be a fun thing to do to get to know more people in the neighbourhood and have something fun and usefull to do in the evening. So I responded, telling about myself. She asked how much I wanted to be paid. I hadn't thought about that, I don't really need the money, I have no clue what babysitters now-a-day ask, so I said the amount that I got as a teen; '5 dollars'. She went mental, said I asked too little as a registered nurse and I was a pedophile and she was going to report me. Well..okay..Geez. =/ Luckely I used an e-mail adres which has not my real name in it but a fake name (I work with children that are victim of criminal parents, due to my own protection, and my friends and family, and others like me, it is a safety procaution to go by an other name.) because if she actually did report me for this I could have said bye-bye to my carreer since I actually work with children... And there is 0% tolerance policy; better safe then sorry. Which is good; but also really annoying and wrecking when someone tells people that you are pedophile because you ask too little money.. one's illogical underbelly is my exit in my career and into wellfare. If I was a pedo comming for you children I probably knew the right amount to ask to not raise any suspicion *facepalm*
Holy.. What are these? The requirements that Mr Banks sang in Mary Poppins?
That mother, she obviously is narcistic or something... simple way to find you self a baby sitter is to call agency, they investigate all their employee and guarantee the job good done.
Mothers who use young people as slaves are disgracefull you have a choice between gving attention to the child/children, who are screaming, bored in playpens - or cleaning the house - you will be wrong whatever
sorry Maam - the children wanted attention -so I never got to clean out your wardrobe
Load More Replies...The thing is, I hired a sitter, based on a few good references. She abused my kids, stole from us, showed up late, no-showed, stole our car when she house sat for a weekend and threw a party as well.... she was only 17 so all her previous "run-ins" with the law were not out there because she was underage. The car theft and party weekend ended our relationship and the rest of it came out as my kids stopped being afraid of her to open up and tell me all the horror stories from when she was there. My children ended up with severe trust issues after that. I stopped even looking for sitters after that. It was horrible. You have to back-check babysitters. They are caring for the most precious possessions you have! And when your kids are traumatized by a sitter, it's not pretty or easy after that at all.
I'm so sorry for your kids. You definitely have to check and be vigilante about who you hire--you are not this woman.
Load More Replies...She's a bad mother. She doesn't care how stressed this nanny would be, being on call 24/7. Stressed nannies don't make for healthy children. If for no other reason, that one requirement makes the mom terrible.
Is she supposed to talk politics with the infants? All her claims are ridiculous, but the Trump reference surprised me the most.
Am I missing something... let's just imagine for a moment there actually is someone crazy enough to take this job. She is offering an "extra $10" if you like Trump. So if the person doesn't like Trump they are only getting $5/hour? What? I made more than that per hour in High School babysitting on weekend 30+ years ago.
"The final request sheds some light on matters, this mom is clearly accustomed to living with a certain amount of cognitive dissonance. " Well, well, we're not prejudiced at all, are we? (I'm no fan of the man, but a comment like that is super unprofessional.)
this is typical stay-at-home mother b******t. Never worked a day in her life yet still needs a babysitter even though she doesn't do anything, to begin with. These types of women are utterly stupid and only good for procreating.
This has nothing to do with being a stay at home mom. Stay at home mothers are doing valuable, important work. This is about entitlement, something plenty of people engaged in the formal labor economy have as well.
Load More Replies...Her requirements don't sound so horrible (well minus the child care BA...is that actually a thing? That aside...call me judgemental but I think I would prefer a nanny with no law issues for my baby as well if I had one=x), though she could've definitely worded them nicer...until you see the price. I'm not overly familiar with babysitter prices, let alone those in the US but for THREE kids and all her demands that's just wow.
Except she asks the babysitter to break the law by working under the table.
Load More Replies...I think I saw this same article somewhere else, but without the trump reference. I smell a rat. Yawn...
So you had to come here and whine about it? Colour me surprised.....
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