Ventures in Babysitting

br1ttany912 07:06:36 PM Jul 04 2009

t reimbursement is unjust. Even more unnerving, though, is the fact that Ms. Wauchope continues to employ unscreened sitters; her demonstrated lack of quality control within the company puts well-paying families and their children at great risk. Let my brief, yet thoroughly vexing experience with Vanessa Wauchope serve as a lesson learned for all clients and sitters, both current and prospective: Sensible Sitters is not so sensible, after all.

br1ttany912 07:05:45 PM Jul 04 2009

ope an email. After several days had passed with no response from Ms. Wauchope, I proceeded to send her another, more urgent email, two text messages and a voicemail message, to all of which she did not respond. However, I did receive her weekly email of babysitting opportunities – evidence that she had accessed her email account. I found her avoidance strange for someone who runs her business and earns her livelihood through her Blackberry. I had reason to believe that she had pulled this scam before; I know several other sitters who encountered similar difficulties and frustrations when they tried to inquire about their overdue paychecks. It was not until my mother used the loaded phrase “legal action” in a voicemail message that Ms. Wauchope finally returned my phone calls. Although the situation was eventually resolved, I am still irked by Ms. Wauchope’s deceitful approach to entrepreneurship. The way in which she attempts to exploit the services of her sitters withou

br1ttany912 07:05:13 PM Jul 04 2009

having a formal conversation with Ms. Wauchope. An unsolicited job offer via text message implied that I was hired as a part-time sitter. In my opinion, the fallible hiring methods exercised by Ms. Wauchope are unsafe and unfair to families who trust the Sensible Sitters enterprise with the security and wellbeing of their children. Luckily for Ms. Wauchope and her clients, I am a trustworthy sitter with years of childcare experience. I eventually met Ms. Wauchope at a group information session at Starbucks in Hampton Bays. She asked some brief questions and informed the group of how we would be paid for our babysitting jobs: we were to submit a time sheet every Thursday in exchange for a paycheck every Friday. When I returned home after the meeting, I immediately submitted time sheets for the jobs I had done so far, expecting a check within the next week or two. When three weeks had passed and I still had not been paid for my work, I became concerned and decided to send Ms. Wauch

br1ttany912 07:03:50 PM Jul 04 2009

I am writing to unveil the truth behind Sensible Sitters, the Hamptons’ “couture childcare” provider. Sensible Sitters is a private babysitting agency servicing families in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and The Hamptons. In the New York area, Vanessa Wauchope serves as the primary liaison between families and sitters. In exchange for exorbitant hourly premiums and membership fees, she provides her clients with the convenience of what they believe to be reliable and secure on-call childcare service. The Sensible Sitters website claims that each sitter is personally interviewed, background-checked, and CPR-trained with a legitimate resume on file. However, in the short time I worked as a sitter for the agency, Ms. Wauchope never interviewed me or performed a background-check; I am not CPR-certified, and Ms. Wauchope never asked me to provide a resume with contactable references. Referred by a friend who was hired under similar circumstances, I babysat for three clients before ever

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