This Teen Got Into An Argument With A Woman He Babysits For After She Wouldn’t Pay Him The Extra $10 He Earned
Were you ever a babysitter during your teenage years? It’s a great and easy way to make some spending money at a young age, and it allows you to learn how to take care of kids.
Babysitting can be a wonderful experience, but that’s highly dependent on the kids and parents you babysit for.
One teenager recently got into an argument with the woman he babysits for after she refused to pay him the extra $10 she was supposed to after a recent job.
He’s 16-years-old and often babysits for a single mom named Ann. Ann has two kids, a 9-year-old son named Max and a 7-year-old daughter named Mia.
At least once a month, Ann needs a night out and asks him to babysit Max and Mia for her. She pays him $8.50 an hour and is usually gone for four hours.
Sometimes she shows up later than she promises, so she always leaves him with a list of emergency contacts he can call if she’s running late and he has to get home.
He and Ann struck up a deal where if he ever did have to get an emergency contact over to the house because she couldn’t get home, she would pay him $10 and called it “crisis pay.”
“The last time I was watching the kids around a month ago, Ann stayed out an hour and a half past her specified return time and wasn’t answering my texts or calls,” he remembered.
“I got worried, so I called one of the emergency contacts.”
Mariia Nazarova – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
The emergency contact was Ann’s sister Jenn, who stayed at the house to watch the kids and get a hold of Ann while he went home.
Thankfully Ann was alright. She said she had gone out stargazing and got lost in the countryside with no reception. She didn’t get home until around midnight that night.
The next morning, Ann was at his door to pay him. The cost of watching the kids for over five hours and the added “crisis pay” added up to $57. But that morning, Ann handed him an envelope with only $47 in it.
When he reminded her that he had to call one of the emergency contacts, so he should be receiving the extra $10, she claimed the situation wasn’t a real “crisis” because she had only gotten lost for a while.
Once again, he reminded her that the deal was if he ever needed to call one of her emergency contacts for any reason, he would be given $10.
Then, Ann got snippy with him and said, “Look, just take it and be happy. A kid like you doesn’t need that much money for five and a half hours of screwing around on your phone.”
Their conversation ended there, and he was very angry.
A few weeks later, Ann contacted him and asked him to watch her kids again while she went out for a girl’s night. He told her he would, under one condition, that he gets the $10 she owed him.
Ann tried arguing with him once again and said she didn’t cause a “real crisis” that night and therefore didn’t need to pay him.
For some reason, she simply refused to give him the $10. He put his foot down and told Ann that he wouldn’t babysit for her if she didn’t pay him the rest of the money.
“She says that she really needs this break and calls me entitled for refusing,” he explained.
Eventually, he heard that she had found another sitter. When he filled his mom in on the situation, he was shocked to find out that she agreed with Ann and thought he was acting entitled.
She told him he should cut Ann some slack because he doesn’t understand how difficult being a single mom is.
Was he acting entitled with Ann, or was he right to demand that he get paid in full?
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