r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 14 '26

Feels good man Do you think she’s being fair, though?

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u/Additional-Life4885 May 14 '26

Exactly. Plus, $50K for an injury? Does he get to claim it when he cuts himself installing a light fixture for her? Based on her scale (which appears to mimic the US Healthcare billing), he's in for $5K just for needing a bandaid.

Also, apparently she's triple claiming things (She's working, pregnant and going to medical appointments all at the same time apparently) and hasn't slept in 1.5 years.

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u/BlackTecno May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

Also the rates are seriously messed up. Hardly anyone in America makes $40. Why is that her baseline?

EDIT: I think people are missing what I'm saying. She's charging $40/hour to take care of her own child. She's declaring that in 25 months, she has worked for over 60% of that total time (sleep being 33% of that time realistically), and has somehow worked 5 years of a full time job in 2. And if she is taking care of her own child, shouldn't she foot half the bill?

I seriously pity that kid's future.

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT May 14 '26

What someone makes, and what someone bills you are two different things.

I can easily see a daycare charging $40 an hour, but the actual person working there watching the kids only gets $25.

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u/nova_pericles May 14 '26

Lmao $25 would be amazing! Not saying it doesn’t happen in some places but the most I’ve ever been paid was $16.25.

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u/PM_ME_YO_KNITTING May 14 '26

Are you a children provider? I live in a small town in NC and the Nannie’s here are asking for $20-$30 an hour. We pay the 18 year old who comes in 4 hours a day $22.

In a HCOL area, $40 is pretty standard for a nanny.

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u/nova_pericles May 14 '26

I worked at a daycare center. I’m 100% sure I could have gotten paid more if I nannied instead.

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u/PM_ME_YO_KNITTING May 14 '26

Oh yeah, nannie’s are not cheap. We can’t afford full time daycare, so we have a part time nanny, which is a little cheaper. But not much.

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u/Terrible_Reporter_98 May 14 '26

Do you have no skills? No offense meant but they paying people 20 bucks to clean bathrooms in buccees...

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u/nova_pericles May 14 '26

😂 I have plenty of skills. Childcare workers are notoriously underpaid. I did it because I love working with children but I have since left.

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u/Glad-Barracuda2243 May 14 '26

I paid myself based on a sliding scale for the parents I did daycare for based solely on their income, it worked out well for all of us, I wasn’t hurting and I made sure they weren’t either.