Babysitting BULLSHIT

Why do fucking kids nowadays think they should get paid some exuberant of money for doing KID jobs??? I try to hire a sitter for a few nights a week, and occasional weekends, and these STUCK-UP, entitled little girls who apply have been raised by their idiotic snooty parents to think they should get paid an HOURLY wage, as if they are my full-time employee! AN HOURLY WAGE, and it is always some inane amount! This last girls said she charges $14 an hour PER kid!. WHAT THE SERIOUS FUCK! She is a fifteen year old GIRL, and doesn't even drive! We have to pick her up and drop her off, but she thinks she should get paid more than some adults are making just to watch some kids for a few hours, and not just $14 an hour, but an hour per kid??? SHE IS A KID HERSELF!

When I was growing-up, I used to babysit all the time, and was happy to get $20 for the entire time, and a pizza ordered for me! That is MORE than reasonable! Babysitting is not a career! It is a KID'S JOB, like a paper route, or law mowing, or shoveling driveways! What the hell happened to our society, that we now treat some thing a kid does for a little extra money like a career? What is next? I have to provide benefits? A 401k? A retirement plan? An HSA? Paid time off? Sick days? Paid holidays? Why are parents raising their kids this way!

The whole idea of these jobs is so that a KID can gain some experience. So they can learn responsibility and accountability. So they understand how money works and learn to budget and save. So they can establish references for LATER, when they go looking for real jobs as young adults! They need something to build off of, instead of turning eighteen and having nothing at all! This is how you form trust and relationships with people! When I was a teenager, I was able to use all the people I babysit for as references on my first job applications when I was a Junior in high school and started looking or an actual hourly job. I was THRILLED to make $20 a night, or for a few hours! If I babysit several days a week, I could bring in $100 a week and that is MORE than enough for a KID. Maybe if kids now weren't raised that to believe that anything they want is an entitlement, and they owed phones, gaming systems, laptops, tablets, smart watches, and all this other stuff...they wouldn't be demanding $14 an hour, per kid, to babysit!

That is them most unreasonable, out there, and just....beyond...anything, heaping pile of nonsense I've ever heard! Babysitting is NOT a career path. I am NOT a business. They are NOT my employee. They are watching my kids for a few hours, which is what teenage girls have done for decades and were content getting paid between $10 to $20 a night! I will never ever allow my kids to become teenagers and think they get to demand an hourly wage for doing KID jobs! This all plays into the inflated sense of importance that young people are being raised with, and the absolute nonsense of telling each and every kid they are sooooo special and unique.

You're not special that I am honestly going to pay an hourly wage and WRITE UP A CONTRACT (yes, they are talking about contracts). I will find a normal teenager, with normal parents, who aren't raising a little psychopath!

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anonymous Other December 20, 2020 at 10:01 pm 0 0