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OpheliaDev1


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Your last au pair may have been more confident and may have had a good understanding of your preferences. You soon-to-be-ex au pair may well be lazy.

But "I think everyone wold appreciate it being organized" is really not true. My cabinets LOOK disorganized, and messy. There is a pile of boric acid in the pantry to kill moths. If somebody randomly decided to organize it, they'd probably wipe up that boric acid and then I'd have to go buy more and I'd be annoyed.

Not everybody does things your way or sees things the way you do. Nothing wrong with that at all. But it's unfair to expect somebody to intuit that. I really don't get why you don't want to just say, "Hey, can you organize the panty this week when you have free time? Thanks."

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OD the last AP was not as confident as the current one, she just wasn't lazy. I really don't care what the AP does just do something, don't step over stuff, DO SOMETHING ANYTHING.

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Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but I don't see that stepping over something and not cleaning the pantry are in the same category, really. It's very obvious that towels on the bathroom floor should be put in the hamper or re hung. Not obvious that you'd like your au pair to organize your pantry.

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I give up; I am not making myself clear, organizing the pantry or closets or whatever were examples. I just want her to do something besides sit on her ass.

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Okay I get you now 42

I still say the best way to prevent someone not working enough is give them more to do. You may not want to bother with writing out a list, but giving specific tasks is the best way to handle this. 



-- Edited by Balloon Animal on Sunday 18th of May 2014 06:26:31 PM

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I get you 42! I thought you were plenty clear.

I think wanting initiative in an employee is not too much to ask.

And stepping over things is just symptom of overall laziness. Someone that does that does not have an ounce of initiative in their body!

I think you should interview with asking them how they would react in a certain scenario so you can see how well they think on their feet and if they have the wherewithal to actually look beyond their nose at what needs to be done in the house.

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