Miscellaneous: Today, I babysat for a woman for the first time. When I arrived,...

By never again - 30/08/2012 01:03 - Canada - Carstairs

Today, I babysat for a woman for the first time. When I arrived, there was a large pile of dishes in the sink. I decided to wash the dishes for her while the kids napped. She came home, noticed it, and bitched me out over how I'd only done it "to try and get more money" out of her. What? FML

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By Anonymous - 24/10/2010 00:52 - United States

Today, a woman got out of a car to scream at me as I was walking with the kids I babysit, demanding to know where I was taking her children. Apparently the woman who pays me is also a babysitter, who I have been "covering" for on her party nights. The mother doesn't believe I didn't know this. FML

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That's not how it works

By Anonymous - 05/09/2021 02:01

Today, I babysat the neighbors’ evil kids. They dropped them over at my house and I played with them for five hours. After taking the brats back home and putting them to bed, their mother asked me what time I came back to the house. She only paid me for the 20 minutes I was in their house. FML

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Little darling

By Anonymous - 21/05/2016 04:27 - Australia - Clayton

Today, I babysat a kid who was such a bratty little prick that I actually considered walking out on the job. After his mom finally got home 4 hours later, he called her a slut. When he got in trouble for it, he claimed that I taught him the word. Needless to say, I didn't get paid. FML

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By hugs511 - 25/07/2009 04:21 - United States

Today, I spent my date night babysitting. After waiting three hours later than I was supposed, the mother finally gets home at 11, too late for me to get out and have any fun. Already annoyed, I take the money as she says, "I hope this is enough, I got hungry and spent some of your money." FML

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By Thanks a lot - 23/10/2015 01:27 - United States - Chestnut Hill

Today, I babysat for my neighbor's brat kid. The mom gave me $15 for 5 hours. I complained to my mom when I got home because last time I got $15/hour. Turns out my mom had told my neighbor that she thought they'd paid me too much last time. Thanks mom. Thanks. FML

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By rachelllynne - 09/05/2013 17:44 - United Kingdom - Manchester

Today, the woman I babysat for blamed me for the cut on her son's face, and fired me with no pay for not looking after him properly. He already had the cut when I arrived. FML

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Keep it clean

By germy germs - 01/07/2021 19:01 - United States

Today, my wife bitched at me for not washing my hands before handling the dishes. The dirty dishes. That were sitting in a sink of hot soapy water. According to her, the dirt from my hands was gonna make the dirty dishes even dirtier. Huh? FML

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Extended play

By Not a babysitter - 09/02/2024 15:00 - United States

Today, I taught a kid piano for a two hour lesson. The mom left to do some errands, and by the time two hours was up, she texted me asking to watch the kid for another "15 minutes" while she returned home. No problem, she had the money too, so I stayed. Four hours later, she showed up, and refused to pay me extra. FML

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By lockedoutbabysitter - 09/03/2010 17:19 - United States

Today, I was babysitting. Being kind, I went to grab their mail, while their 4 year old ate lunch. He locked me out, wrecked the house, and let me in right when he saw their car two hours later. I didn't get paid. I paid them. FML

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**** you, Susan

By Anonymous - 04/12/2022 10:00

Today, I washed all the dishes that had been piling in the sink over the week, and set them in the drying rack before I left for school. I came home to see that my dad’s girlfriend had put them back into the sink, along with her dirty dishes. She told me to re-wash them. Why? “They didn’t smell clean.” FML

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darth1 18

Thursday 30 August 2012 8:46

Yeah because somehow, you doing her dishes sucks the cash right out of her wallet.

peve3 12

Thursday 30 August 2012 8:47

Next time don't do anything and leave the house a mess. Then when she gripes you out, remind her of this occasion. Kind of hard to have it both ways.

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ocrisf 0

Thursday 30 August 2012 8:57

Hmm she probably would have bitched if you didn't do anything either way soooo don't feel bad OP!

Jeffo193 13

Thursday 30 August 2012 9:05

Some people are so unbearably lazy that they can't comprehend doing a job out of personal decency...

annie_nk 22

Thursday 30 August 2012 9:23

I hope you did what your user name says.

kateindeed 5

Thursday 30 August 2012 9:25

That's sad. I was always told to leave houses I babysit for cleaner than when I arrived. Not for extra money, but rather so I would be hired again.. That just seems like a smart thing to do.

xMidna 6

Thursday 30 August 2012 15:11

I always do the same just on principle. I always babysat for working couples, so it was nice for them to come home and not have to clean. Also babysitters get paid shitloads, here anyways the going rate is between $15-20. Most of them just sit the kid in front of the tv and just do whatever, so they may as well earn their money.

JaSM7 4

Thursday 30 August 2012 9:29

For revenge, have sex with her husband! That'll show her!!

Yousuck24 21

Thursday 30 August 2012 10:05

What if OP is a guy? Or a teenager? Also how would that help in anyway?

missmonkie 16

Thursday 30 August 2012 9:37

Wow. I feel sorry for you. I've never been bitched at for cleaning up house a little bit. I never did it for extra money, just wanted something to do while kids napped. Don't go back. She'll figure out something else to bitch at you for

jmac1811 9

Thursday 30 August 2012 9:42

Some people just can't appreciate genuine niceness

perdix 29

Thursday 30 August 2012 10:10

She hired a babysitter, not a maid. Since you did the cleaning without being asked, she thinks you want maid pay as well as your babysitting fee. I go to an accountant for my taxes, and he insists on doing a colonoscopy. You see where going for one kind of service, butt getting another unrequested one can be a real pain in the ass? I hope this analogy helps you understand.

Isoldael 27

Thursday 30 August 2012 10:34

Not sure if you were kidding or not. A better analogy would be if you asked him to do your taxes, and afterwards he tells you that while looking at your taxes, he noticed that you're losing a lot of money because you accidentally pay your utility services double every month. What OP did was something he or she could do during the job without any negative effect on either the kids or the mother, and she was just helping out.

bizarre_ftw 21

Thursday 30 August 2012 13:40

Did you really miss that painfully obvious pun?

thanksforwasting 0

Saturday 1 September 2012 7:54

hehe well don't worry at least some of us got the pun. ;)

Isoldael 27

Monday 3 September 2012 16:32

I guess I just lack a sense of humour. A pun in an analogy that doesn't really compare to the FML just doesn't seem as funny to my, my deepest apologies.

007type 26

Thursday 30 August 2012 10:12

No good deed go unpunished

perdix 29

Thursday 30 August 2012 10:22

goes* I'll bet my good deed of correcting your grammar of this cliché will soon get pilloried and mocked. :(

loohoozuuhuur 13

Thursday 30 August 2012 14:43

I think it's flippin fantastic to point out silly spelling/grammar mistakes. Stay in school kids...!

007type 26

Friday 31 August 2012 9:42

Ah, my bad... I'm usually very careful with spellings/tenses/grammar but I don't know how I made such an obvious mistake. I stand corrected, thanks guys.

Inapprehensible 11

Thursday 30 August 2012 10:35

As they always say "It's the thought that counts." A mother has many jobs. Being the protector of their children, cooking, cleaning ( which she obviously did not do), etc. The fact that she "bitched" you out over washing the dishes showed how unappreciative people can be today. And she accused you of trying to get more money off of her. So sorry, OP.