She’s Refusing To Help Care For Her Nephew Because Her Sister Expected Her To Move To Europe For Eight Months And Only Offered To Pay Her $370 A Month
This woman’s older sister recently welcomed her first baby into the world. But only now is her sister starting to realize just how expensive childcare really is.
Her sister also lives in Europe; meanwhile, she resides in South America. However, she has years of experience working with children between the ages of 5 months and 7-years-old.
That’s why, due to her sister’s tight budget, she was ultimately asked to move into her sister’s apartment in Europe for eight months to take care of her sister’s baby while her sister and brother-in-law were at work.
The real kicker, though, is how much her sister actually offered to compensate her. She would be expected to work 10 hours a day (or 50 hours a week). Yet, her sister only offered to pay her about $370 dollars per month!
Now, her sister would also pay for her food, as well as her travel expenses. But, prior to basically asking her to uproot her entire life, her sister was not even speaking to her.
“Due to a fight where my sister had accused me of only caring for her unborn son and not her,” she recalled.
So, while she does love her sister and her nephew, and she did consider moving there to help out, the whole situation just doesn’t add up to her.
Apparently, her sister only recently got married and claimed she couldn’t afford to pay any more money. Yet, she knows that her sister rented out a six-person apartment to go skiing in January.
“And my sister is spending her money on online shopping, which she receives at our sibling’s building. So, they see the amount of money my sister spends on random stuff,” she added.
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To be clear, she isn’t just upset about the compensation, either. She’s also upset that her sister only reached out and spoke to her because her sister needed something.
Finally, she’s annoyed that her sister “pretends” to be broke and borrows money from their family despite both her sister and brother-in-law having good jobs.
“My sister works as a jeweler for very big fancy companies, and her husband is an electrician,” she said.
So, she really does not want to spend over a year of her life working for her sister– and putting her own projects on hold– just to make basically $1 an hour.
Her sister just didn’t understand that, though, because after she didn’t immediately agree to her sister’s terms, her sister just went and berated her mom!
That’s why she’s now wondering whether refusing to move in with her sister to care for her nephew was really so unreasonable or not.
Can you believe her sister wanted to pay her that little? Would you want to move to Europe to help your sibling out for such little pay after they weren’t even speaking to you? How would you have reacted if you were in her shoes?
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