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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Good luck, Sox.
Someone just posted on our local listserv for a babysitter to spend overnights with her 2 kids three nights a week (she's a nurse) for $5/hour, so I sent her a list of wage and hour laws (off-list) that are applicable.
I don't think I should have to mind my own business if she posts publicly for an illegal arrangement, but she seems to think so. IN ASSCAPS.
$5 an hour? wow.
Sparky, you did the right thing. She's just pissed about being called out on being an unethical beeyotch.
Huh. Perhaps my wedding plan to have my bride ride a T-Rex requires some fine-tuning....
Especially since Marc Bolan is dead. I guess she could ride a zombie Marc Bolan, but that doesn't sound particularly elegant.
Hell, you were being nice doing it off list. I might not have.
I think maybe if you can't ride a horse you're more likely to think it's a deeply romantic thing to do for your wedding, but then it's also a much more unpredictable thing to happen on a fraught enough day anyway. If you seriously need your horse led that 20 feet, Nellie has no place in your wedding day.
Or possibly find a very calm horse.
overnights with her 2 kids three nights a week (she's a nurse) for $5/hour
Jesus. That would be criminal even if it weren't, you know, actually criminal.
(Granted, most of the nannies I know are paid under the table, but at legal-except-for-the-tax-dodge-thing wages. And with contracts.)
I don't believe in a calm enough horse that will trump you evidently not knowing how to ride in any useful manner. Not one that will actually go anywhere.
Where was her groom in that scenario? Standing behind the beast? Nice.
Wait--was she marrying a human?
I guess I don't get the big deal. She stayed on it.
Hell, you were being nice doing it off list. I might not have.
I looked up her other posts and she generally participates reasonably in the give/take of the list. So I decided to be kind.
Jesus. That would be criminal even if it weren't, you know, actually criminal.
The argument seems to be that since s/he'd be sleeping for a number of those hours, they shouldn't count. Also, she's a single mother and this is all she can afford. There are so many issues here, and I honestly sympathize, but none of it adds up to $5/hour being okay.