Should I pay for my housekeeper to go on vacation with us??

This is seriously the most ridiculously hilarious conversation I have seen on the Brooklynian EVER.

Wow.

Is the first post even real? I'm guessing it's not.

This has got to be a joke. We pay our babysitter for every moment she spends taking care of our daughter. Here in Brooklyn or otherwise. We pay her transportation and any other expenses they incur together. How else can you expect to have the respect of your employee and the very best care for your little one/s?

While I know she loves our daughter, I would never assume that a trip away with our family is her preference or some sort of gift for her. I am certain she would much rather be home with her own family than anywhere in the world with me and mine.

I hope everyone realizes that this is a joke. This person is having a good old time with you.

its a joke for sure after she mentioned maria.

Am I the only one that thought, "er, why not pay her $1K for the month, let her stay in NYC and tell her to come back to work when they return from Paris? Much cheaper than $4-5K for travel expenses!" But I also dearly hope that the OP is a troll, because if they aren't, well, they're certainly a different kind of troll.

Nightnannyuser wrote: Listen everybody. She is going to get her own room at a bed and breakfast in the middle of Paris! Also, we will be going to exclusive restuarants which she would never get a chance to go to if she wasn't with us. Paying $400 of an $800 ticket doesn't seem that ridiculous.

I have a friend who worked as a part time nanny for a family with one child. They asked her to go on vacation with them to Costa Rica and offered to pay all of her expenses - but no salary. She agreed - and proceeded to spend a miserable week in Costa Rica. During her 'time off' (ie at night after she had chased a toddler all day), she slept. The small amount of time she had during the day (ie when her employers went on exciting activities and actually took their child) she wandered around, bored, alone, and unable to afford any activities of her own.

Needless to say, she resented her employers and regretted her decision. She quit that job not long after and never looked back.

Please don't think that you are doing a favor for your employee by bringin her to a foreign place where she will spend all her free time exhausted and alone. If you really wanted to show your appreciation for her good work and low prices, you would pay her expenses in full.

Haven't read the entire thread, but please tell me that none of you are actually taking this tool seriously.

Oh, I forgot to call you boring.

I had to go to Europe for work in June, and my wife came along for a few days. We left our nanny with the kids in Brooklyn and doubled her salary for the week (plus gave her a couple hundred bucks to spend on whatever she wanted to during the week). Plus, she gets her paid vacation time and uncapped sick days, as well as annual pay increases and bonuses for her birthday and at year-end. And, we accomodate her schedule so she can go to college a couple mornings and afternoons a week.

I see it as a very important job that deserves very good compensation -- the care of your kids is not something to haggle over.

(I also have a couple friends in college that used to travel with families to watch their kids -- they received full weekly pay, plus all expenses. Again, this ain't the place to be cheap).

if she is going with you as an employee...you should pay her WHOLE fare and room and board...she's not going for her own sake.

That's my opinion.

Enjoy the city, never been my pie`ce de gateau.