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Women want equal pay? Stop babysitting

Posted on 10/18/14 at 4:44 am
Posted by snake23
NOLA/BR
Member since Dec 2011
4438 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 4:44 am
It's not the "glass ceiling" stopping women from what they are worth. It's the fact that they aren't worth what they think they are. And it's all the fault of the "babysitting" phenomena. Girls from teenage to young twenties all babysit and this is usually their first "job". Well everyone over-pays their babysitters. Oh you watched my kid for 5 hours ( 4 of which he/she was asleep for) well here's 100 bucks. And then they get in the real world and realize that that's not th way "real" jobs pay and all of a sudden it's a sexist thing. STOP OVER-PAYING YOUR BABYSITTERS. thanks
Posted by RebelOP
Misty Mountain Top
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Posted on 10/18/14 at 4:51 am to
Do you like fish sticks?
Posted by snake23
NOLA/BR
Member since Dec 2011
4438 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 4:54 am to
Back in my youth I did
Posted by RebelOP
Misty Mountain Top
Member since Jun 2013
12478 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 4:56 am to
You gay fish
Posted by DeepSouthSportsman
frick Bama
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Posted on 10/18/14 at 5:13 am to
Posted by mikrit54
Robeline
Member since Oct 2013
8664 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 5:25 am to
Dumbass.
Posted by NoHoTiger
So many to kill, so little time
Member since Nov 2006
45719 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 5:42 am to
I'd like to volunteer for this $100/5 hour babysitting gig. You know anybody in the LA area hiring?
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
123739 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 5:51 am to
quote:

I'd like to volunteer for this $100/5 hour babysitting gig. You know anybody in the LA area hiring?


I can hook you up with one...but babies won't be the only thing you'll be sitting on.
Posted by LSUfan4444
Member since Mar 2004
53702 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 5:51 am to
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I'd like to volunteer for this $100/5 hour babysitting gig.


Oh, you mean something that pays the same as grass cutting?
Posted by Dire Wolf
bawcomville
Member since Sep 2008
36550 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 6:20 am to
Sorry you are too poor to pay your baby sitter.

Posted by TheSexecutioner
Member since Mar 2011
5247 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 6:30 am to
quote:

Oh, you mean something that pays the same as grass cutting?


You think grass cutting and baby-sitting are comparably hard? Grass cutting requires gasoline, your own equipment, and the grass doesn't cut itself for 4 of the 5 hours. The OP is kind of right on his point. Baby sitters are often times family friends who get overpaid, rather than a market wage, as a favor.

I don't know if that contributes to the phenomenon of women thinking they deserve more pay or not. But I could certainly see a case of being in for a rude awakening when a girl realizes that her brother's "grass cutting" and her "babysitting" are no longer valued the same in the real world.
Posted by Rouge
Floston Paradise
Member since Oct 2004
136768 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 6:34 am to
$20 an hour? Ha!

$50 from 6p to 12a. Kids in bed by 9p. Good sitters used to do the dishes and pick up after kids went to sleep
Posted by ksayetiger
Centenary Gents
Member since Jul 2007
68234 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 6:34 am to
I thought this thread was going to be about why employers dont like to hire women. many know they will have kids so they will have to train somebody to fill their role during maturnity leave, and when mommy does come back to work she will be missing time constantly for kid doctor appointments or whatever.

but since this thread isnt about that, we need pics of these babysitters. only 18 yo and over of course
Posted by cleeveclever
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2008
2046 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 7:52 am to
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This post was edited on 9/24/20 at 8:21 pm
Posted by Darla Hood
Near that place by that other place
Member since Aug 2012
13839 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 7:52 am to
Stupid premise.
Posted by jose canseco
Houston via Houma via BR via NOLA
Member since Jul 2007
5667 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 8:00 am to
quote:

You think grass cutting and baby-sitting are comparably hard?


Hell no. One is caring for the well being of human life. The other is pushing a lawn mower.

Would you let the Spanish speaking immigrant watch your child when you were away? Would you let him cut your grass?
Posted by LSUisBetterthanU
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2007
765 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 8:34 am to
This is stupid. I overpay my babysitter on purpose. She always answers my calls, shows up on time, and babysit when I need her to.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
70572 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 8:41 am to
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This is stupid. I overpay my babysitter on purpose. She always answers my calls, shows up on time, and babysit when I need her to.


I kige this. You get what you pay for. And with it being a one-ff contract labor deal, it's very much a free market phenomenon.
Posted by Yewkindewit
Near Birmingham, Alabama
Member since Apr 2012
19994 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 8:47 am to
I saw a request for a babysitter for 8.5 hours a couple of days a week. The pay worked out to be $2.50 an hour. Needless to say, it just drew comments and no takers.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
123739 posts
Posted on 10/18/14 at 8:55 am to

quote:

Would you let the Spanish speaking immigrant watch your child when you were away?


You hire a Russian one
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