AITA for getting upset that a friend tried to deduct money from our agreed babysitting price because she felt she came home too early?
She only paid half and told me to ask about the other half next Thursday. When I asked she told me she was deducting 10 dollars because she came home earlier than expected and she said I was being weird considering I’m not asking other people who owe me money to repay me.
At first she said she wouldn’t have it until the following week but then sent the full amount and told my sister I kept asking about it so she felt pressured to send it even though it was her last bit of money til next week. I sent it back because the urgency wasn’t the issue it was deducting money and comparing the situation that bothered me.
She told my sister she didn’t even think I was a qualified sitter because she didn’t think I was even cpr certified, which I have been 3 times due to working at a gym. And honestly, who doesn’t know if their babysitter can save their kids life in an emergency but leaves them with that person anyway?
Is $80 for overnight sitting for 3 kids in the Bay Area too much to ask from a friend?
I made everyone breakfast before I left because she had a hangover.
$80 is a steal. I would expect to pay $100 or more for overnight care. EDIT: hell, I’d pay whatever was asked HAHA
NTA for asking for what you were owed. It sounds like your friend needs to straighten out their finances instead of going out.
For context my 25lb dog does overnight care, and it’s $60. They walk her, feed her and lock her in a cage, and I need to bring her there and pick her up, so yeah I’d say $80 is a pretty good deal.
Edit: added the word “dog” as I got a DM asking about locking babies in cages.
NTA
> She said I was being weird considering I’m not asking other people who owe me money to repay me
There’s a difference between paying back a loan (covered someone’s lunch tab) and paying for services rendered (spent the night with someone else’s children while someone was out partying). $80 is hardly anything for an overnight too. I’d have charged double at least for that many kids. And for the CPR thing, people hire teenagers to watch their kids frequently. I understand why it’s an important skill to have but at this point it feels like an excuse.
Is she herself cpr certified?
Exactly
This always amuses me that so many people insist on it for babysitters but aren’t themselves.
NTA, do not babysit for her again.
NTA. She’s negging your service to justify self helping a discount. Some people are like that. I tell all of them to lose my number. I have too many good, normal clients that it would be illogical to spend my time with this kind of person and their off-putting behavior. You don’t need to accept insults.
She’s trying to scam you. She knew sje was too broke to pay you when she hired you, but she wanted to go anyway. Now she’s trying to get out of paying you. She sucks.
Wow, she’s got the money to go out and get trashed but begrudges $80 to pay for the overnight sitting for her three kids. Maybe stay home and save the $80 sitting money and whatever she paid out that night and she’d have enough to make it to payday without trying to skim $10 from you.
Please never ever agree to look after her kids again. She’d have been ripping you off even if she paid you the agreed price.
NTA $80 is incredibly low for an overnight sitter for 3 kids. I pay $400 for two kids overnight. Don’t babysit for her again.
$80 overnight for 3 kids in the Bay Area is already cheap. The deduction thing is weird. If money was tight she should’ve just said that instead of changing the deal after.
Or not gone out if she couldn’t afford a babysitter
NTA. You watched 3 kids overnight, made them breakfast, and she tried to dock pay because *she* left early. that’s not how babysitting works. Coming home early doesn’t reduce the hours you were responsible for her kids, it just means she got a bonus free night.