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Speaker 2: I'm going to read a headline for you, Okay. Suburban
Speaker 2: mother of two refuses to pay gen Z babysitter after
Speaker 2: she watched her kids.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's going to trigger people.
Speaker 2: It's not a laser story. It's an actual situation one
Speaker 2: of our listeners is dealing with, and it's not a
Speaker 2: ton of money. But the reason why this woman won't
Speaker 2: pay her is so ridiculous. She asked for our help. Oh,
Speaker 2: I want to hear it. Now she's gonna have to
Speaker 2: call and confront this lady. Oh, you know this is
Speaker 2: going to be uncomfortable. It's the case of the bitter
Speaker 2: babysitter and the penny pinching parent in your brandline, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we should write for the news brand new awkward Tuesday
Speaker 2: phone call?
Speaker 3: Next, it's awkward.
Speaker 2: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 3: It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 2: If you listen to our show regularly, you know that
Speaker 2: our own Brook Fox is a proud value shopper. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: very proud aka Cheatskate. Jeff, you got that insulted me?
Speaker 2: You thought wrong? No, I know she will take every
Speaker 2: opportunity to pay less money than she probably should. With
Speaker 2: cubea rewards.
Speaker 1: Car, yes, whatever app and loyalty program I need to
Speaker 1: sign up for.
Speaker 3: I'm doing it.
Speaker 2: Whatt a email account?
Speaker 3: Oh? Oh got it?
Speaker 1: I have three just dedicated to that.
Speaker 2: Brook will even tip the weight staff and then once
Speaker 2: they turn around, secretly exchange that twenty dollars note with
Speaker 2: a one dollar bill and sneak out the back door.
Speaker 3: She ran out of her counterfeit.
Speaker 4: You saw that.
Speaker 2: Everybody saw it, Brooke, And I know Brooke will agree
Speaker 2: with me on this. Okay, but the price of child's care,
Speaker 2: not just daycare, but babysitting is higher now than ever before.
Speaker 3: Even I've heard about this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you that's why you need to find
Speaker 1: someone between the age of thirteen and fifteen to watch
Speaker 1: your kids. Oh sure, they may not be super responsible,
Speaker 1: but they're not that into boys.
Speaker 2: Yet, so it helps. And they don't know how to
Speaker 2: sue you when you undertake it. That's kind of nice.
Speaker 2: The thing is, Brook, we do have a babysitter on
Speaker 2: the phone right now. Wait needs our help, Missy. Welcome
Speaker 2: to the show. First of all, how long have you
Speaker 2: been babysitting for? Like, are you a professional nanny or
Speaker 2: is it more of a side gig thing.
Speaker 7: I am actually a nursing student, so this isn't.
Speaker 2: Your professional job. You're just doing it on the side
Speaker 2: to pay for your bills and books and stuff.
Speaker 7: That's correct.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Are you with the same family as it always just
Speaker 1: the one family?
Speaker 8: So I based it for like four to five families
Speaker 8: here and there, okay, and there's one like I don't
Speaker 8: know if I should even say their name, the Fox House.
Speaker 1: Yes, like, if you're going to find a good babysitter,
Speaker 1: it's worth the money. But is that the problem? The money?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it is sort of the money.
Speaker 2: So yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 8: So this family that I watch, I watched they're seven
Speaker 8: and their five year old. They're really great kids.
Speaker 5: The dad is super nice that the mom.
Speaker 8: Is really hit or miss. He's just a very strange woman. Yes,
Speaker 8: So this time the parents go out. Everything's fine. They're
Speaker 8: out for like four hours, and usually the mom then
Speaker 8: love me after. But I've waited a few days and
Speaker 8: I got nothing.
Speaker 1: Okay, did you get her up? Because like sometimes what happens,
Speaker 1: especially with Venmo, is like all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: kid needs you and then you get sidetracked and then
Speaker 1: you just transfer, you.
Speaker 2: Just space it, right.
Speaker 7: So I did text her.
Speaker 8: I usually Venmo request her, but I followed up and
Speaker 8: I said, Hey, if you don't mind, can you please
Speaker 8: Venmo me the eighty dollars when you can cool?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 8: So she texts me back and she goes every I'm
Speaker 8: literally going to read it to you, so it says, Missy,
Speaker 8: every time you're here, I noticed you enjoy our food.
Speaker 8: So if we're counting the ice cream you ate and
Speaker 8: the deli sandwich you made.
Speaker 7: With the chips, we're pretty even.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, that so wild.
Speaker 8: Also, like I'm pretty sure when I first started, both
Speaker 8: her and the dad were like, whenever the kids eat, like,
Speaker 8: you're welcome to make for yourself.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Well, hold on, how much of the ice
Speaker 2: cream did you go through? The entire pint of ven
Speaker 2: and Jerry's and that you made?
Speaker 8: Even if I did, it's not eighty dollars worth of
Speaker 8: ice cream.
Speaker 2: That's the amount that.
Speaker 1: You're And that's so weird. Like, I'm sorry, when you
Speaker 1: invite someone into your house, you give them your food.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just what it.
Speaker 2: Is, even if you're not working for you.
Speaker 1: Yours used to text you that you babysit a.
Speaker 4: She asked me to eat before I come over because
Speaker 4: I always go after practice and eat all their food,
Speaker 4: and she's like, you just eat before you come over.
Speaker 2: Food saved you.
Speaker 3: For how much?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: But she told me she didn't a.
Speaker 8: Duck out of my pay, so.
Speaker 2: But is left with two grocery bags filled with items.
Speaker 5: So she did chop the whole food. She had that
Speaker 5: good stuff.
Speaker 2: I see, all right, that's how did you respond to
Speaker 2: that text? That's a pretty aggressive text.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So furthermore, she offers me twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: What she's like, you ate sixty dollars worth of ice cream?
Speaker 1: She must be tallying like all the other times things.
Speaker 1: Is that what you're thinking?
Speaker 8: I've maybe, But even if that's true, that's kind of
Speaker 8: crazy to be keeping tabs on me like that and
Speaker 8: counting every item of food in your refrigerator, like you
Speaker 8: can afford to have a babysitter, like you can afford
Speaker 8: to give me a sandwich.
Speaker 6: How I feel it's like a restaurant, Like if you
Speaker 6: can't tamp and don't go out.
Speaker 1: And if you're going to invite someone to come over
Speaker 1: to your house, especially at a meal time.
Speaker 6: To take care of your children, you feed them.
Speaker 2: You clearly feel slighted by this mother who's refusing to
Speaker 2: pay you the full amount that you're owed. What what
Speaker 2: are you looking to get out of doing this phone
Speaker 2: call with us?
Speaker 8: I'm confused as to what to do, basically because Furthermore,
Speaker 8: she blocks me so that I can't ask her a
Speaker 8: third time for it.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, and so I don't know if I'm out
Speaker 7: of a job.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're for sure out of a job.
Speaker 3: You don't want a job anymore anyway.
Speaker 7: Yeah, agreed. But like I'm owed eighty dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you need your money.
Speaker 2: So you want our advice on how to call this
Speaker 2: mom and get the full eighty dollars.
Speaker 8: That's you're owed, right, I just want what's oh it
Speaker 8: to me.
Speaker 7: I don't care what happens after that. I just I
Speaker 7: need my money. Wow.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's going to be hard.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure Alexis will give grade advice. She
Speaker 1: is so good demanding money.
Speaker 4: I want to pay ten dollars an hour for two
Speaker 4: kids for four years.
Speaker 1: Maybe I should hire Alexis as my next baby.
Speaker 2: And half of your pantry is going to be rated afterwards.
Speaker 2: Ten bucks an hour, that's so yeah. Okay, So we're
Speaker 2: going to think of our best advice for what to
Speaker 2: give you and what you should say to this mother
Speaker 2: before you make your awkward Tuesday phone call and you
Speaker 2: get sweet sweet financial justice.
Speaker 1: As sweet as that ice cream.
Speaker 2: Forward, we'll have our advice for you when we do
Speaker 2: your awkward Tuesday right after this.
Speaker 3: Hold on, it's awkward.
Speaker 2: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 3: It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 2: If you're just joining us, we've got quite the show
Speaker 2: down on our hands. You've heard of the rumble in
Speaker 2: the jungle. Well, this is the tussle in the toy room.
Speaker 2: A babysitter versus the mom who refuses to pay her
Speaker 2: the rate that they had agreed upon because after four
Speaker 2: hours of child's care, our listener Missy was owed eighty
Speaker 2: dollars for her babysitting work, and the mom texted her
Speaker 2: back saying, well, you ate a bunch of our ice
Speaker 2: cream and made yourself a sandwich while you were there,
Speaker 2: so we're probably equal. And it is important to note
Speaker 2: that the mom blocked her on text and on Venmo
Speaker 2: after that never paid her. That's why we're here to
Speaker 2: help Missy get her hard earned money before she never
Speaker 2: has to work for this lady ever again. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: all we need to do is give her a little
Speaker 2: bit of advice for how to accomplish that. So, Brooke,
Speaker 2: what are your thoughts? What do you think Missy should
Speaker 2: do here?
Speaker 1: Well, first, I think you should start reasonable and nice. Okay,
Speaker 1: you say, listen, this is a pain. Let's just make
Speaker 1: it all go away for the eighty bucks.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: If she doesn't agree with you, Missy, you let her
Speaker 1: know that word is going to get around to all
Speaker 1: the other babysitters in the area. And if she ever
Speaker 1: wants to hire a babysitter again, she'd better pay up.
Speaker 7: So play the blackmail car.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, a mother's greatest fear is not being able to
Speaker 1: get away from her.
Speaker 2: Children, Missy. Do you feel like you're strong enough to
Speaker 2: blackmail a mother of two?
Speaker 7: Honestly, I'm pretty confident myself. Yes, I think I think.
Speaker 4: The other sitters.
Speaker 2: All right. It's not very often we tell people to
Speaker 2: blackmail mothers.
Speaker 1: But listen, sometimes justice is dirty.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, that's one piece of advice for you, Jose.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Well, this lady.
Speaker 6: Has already been mean to you and blocked you, and
Speaker 6: if she ends up hanging up, just call the school
Speaker 6: where her kids go, liquidate their lunch funds and then
Speaker 6: go pick up the money from the front desk after school.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, Jose, you can tell you how that works.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm Amanda's dad would like to cash out all her money.
Speaker 6: I'll there in ten minutes.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, but the babysitter, I don't know if they
Speaker 2: would be able to get the school to agree to that.
Speaker 1: A parent could agree to that box into my kids
Speaker 1: lunch funds, and I don't think I'm ever going to
Speaker 1: see it again.
Speaker 2: Don't feed my children for a month? What do you
Speaker 2: think about that? Missy?
Speaker 8: So at their school, actually they have like a designated
Speaker 8: pickup and it's me. Yeah, so I may be on
Speaker 8: some sort of list.
Speaker 4: You don't want to involve the kids.
Speaker 2: So far, the advice we've given is to blackmail mothers
Speaker 2: and not feed children, sleep with her husband? Is that
Speaker 2: what you?
Speaker 3: Just an option.
Speaker 2: Always on the table, all right. I don't know if
Speaker 2: we've helped at all. We may have actually hurt you.
Speaker 7: Miss I think there's some stuff I could use in there, definitely.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to be on the phone in the background.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to jump in and tell this mother what's up?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a mom and mom. Actually, here we go.
Speaker 2: Hopefully all goes smoothly. She just agrees to pay the money,
Speaker 2: big misunderstanding. Yeah, That's what I'm hoping for me here
Speaker 2: we go. I'm down on it right now.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 7: Hello, Hi, Alice. Hello, who is this Hi? It's Missy.
Speaker 5: How are you missing? How are you calling me? Why
Speaker 5: are you calling me? I blocked you?
Speaker 8: Yes, I'm aware you blocked me. That's why I'm calling
Speaker 8: you because you owe me money.
Speaker 5: I don't owe you running money, sweetheart.
Speaker 8: We want you.
Speaker 7: Oh please don't call me, sweetheart.
Speaker 8: You owe me eighty dollars for babysitting your children. That
Speaker 8: was the agreed upon rate, and I would just like
Speaker 8: it so we can end this whole thing.
Speaker 5: Yes, sure, no problem, as soon as you pay me
Speaker 5: back for all the ice creaming. Ways. You know, I
Speaker 5: have a camera in the house and I think that's
Speaker 5: the food you put on your sandwich. I'm sure how
Speaker 5: you took my son pay up the sandwich and you
Speaker 5: ate it instead of saving it for him. But what's
Speaker 5: the matter with you?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 5: And the last time your baby stopt for me, it
Speaker 5: was for four hours, but the kids were next door
Speaker 5: for two and a half of those hours. You just
Speaker 5: had to be sitting in the house. Meanwhile, you ate
Speaker 5: everything I put out for their smoothies when I came back.
Speaker 5: And what did you do? Nothing? You didn't do anything.
Speaker 5: I know, eighty dollars, get a little break.
Speaker 8: If you could just stop yelling at me for a second,
Speaker 8: I can straighten that out for you. The kids actually
Speaker 8: ate next door, which is why they didn't need to
Speaker 8: have those smoothies at that point in time.
Speaker 7: Also, your son didn't.
Speaker 8: Want to finish his sandwich, so I finished it because
Speaker 8: I hadn't had lunch that day. I didn't think it
Speaker 8: was that big of a deal. Also, you and your
Speaker 8: husband were very clear from the beginning that whatever the
Speaker 8: kids ate and whatever I had prepared for them, I
Speaker 8: was welcome to some too. I am not a glutton.
Speaker 8: I am not eating you out.
Speaker 5: Of house and home, and I sure myself.
Speaker 8: I'm not robbing you. So I don't know what the
Speaker 8: problem is or what are.
Speaker 5: My female products aka tampons?
Speaker 3: They're no.
Speaker 7: Excuse me, Okay, I know.
Speaker 5: What everything messed in my house, and I know what's
Speaker 5: missing on it's missing okay, missy.
Speaker 8: Okay. First of all, it's very strange to you count
Speaker 8: your tampons. But second of all, next time I'll call
Speaker 8: you an ask if I can have one, and if
Speaker 8: you say oh, I'll just bleed all over your couch.
Speaker 5: That's fine. No, your generation, you know, they're so spoiled.
Speaker 5: They're twenty dollars an hour the afferent only fans. Okay,
Speaker 5: there's a bit.
Speaker 7: We didn't agreed upon.
Speaker 5: Four hours an hour in my day. What are you doing?
Speaker 5: You're sitting on your booty button and you're and you're
Speaker 5: on your phone talking to your little buddies and eating.
Speaker 8: My pay our alley. I am entitled to the eighty
Speaker 8: dollars that I earned by watching your children.
Speaker 7: I will never watch them again if that makes you happy,
Speaker 7: but that would be agreed upon.
Speaker 5: Rad Oh my god, you know, Missy, you won't have
Speaker 5: a contract. What are you gonna do ron take me
Speaker 5: to all claims quarter or something that takes forever. And
Speaker 5: you're not going to get a dawn for me? Okay, okay.
Speaker 7: I don't think you.
Speaker 8: Can find a babysitter, to be honest with you, because
Speaker 8: I'm going to tell every babysitter in the area of
Speaker 8: every kid in your kids class that I know not
Speaker 8: to work for you.
Speaker 9: I'm scared.
Speaker 2: Alice, Alice, are you there?
Speaker 9: Who are you?
Speaker 2: We're a radio show. God, your your babysitter. Missy reached
Speaker 2: out for help with this thing.
Speaker 8: Right right.
Speaker 5: That generation does that.
Speaker 2: Okay, A long time. Can't be that old.
Speaker 1: You have a five and seven year old stuck like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing?
Speaker 5: You know one, I don't have the answer to you.
Speaker 5: I don't know you. I was talking to Missy.
Speaker 1: I thought Missy was doing a great job.
Speaker 4: You'll handle yourself so advocating for herself.
Speaker 2: Listen, thank you, Alice. This is called an awkward Tuesday
Speaker 2: phone call. And we're on missy side on this because
Speaker 2: she told us about the situation that you're in. You.
Speaker 2: It sounds like you're trying to throw Missy in jail
Speaker 2: just because she ate some food.
Speaker 5: I never said she could eat the food, Okay, I never.
Speaker 2: We heard the phone call. We heard you talking to her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you said specifically, you ate the ice cream. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to pay you the money.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and the other half of the sandwich.
Speaker 5: All right, So she ate my food. She didn't get
Speaker 5: eighty dollars. You want me to give her to eighty
Speaker 5: dollars so I could get rid of all of you.
Speaker 8: Okay, we will do that, Alice.
Speaker 3: Alice is the problem.
Speaker 1: You can't afford.
Speaker 5: It, Lady, looking at me, Lady, I'm talking to you.
Speaker 5: I make more than you.
Speaker 8: Okay, I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't need this. I make more than you.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, you want to prove it.
Speaker 2: Well, Alice did know about OnlyFans, so maybe there is
Speaker 2: a little bit of it. So I was impressed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you want to use this time to promote
Speaker 1: your channel?
Speaker 2: Alice?
Speaker 5: Don't you slander me. I'm not on that felthy site.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, somebody in your house is to.
Speaker 3: Know the race.
Speaker 2: We're not trying to slander you, were just asking that
Speaker 2: you do the humane thing and pay your babysitter the
Speaker 2: money that you said you would pay.
Speaker 9: Shut up, I would pay her, Okay, okay, we will
Speaker 9: pay her, just to get rid of you and to
Speaker 9: get rid of that woman you're talking to there, and
Speaker 9: you get rid of the other guy you're talking to there,
Speaker 9: and get you the hell off the phone.
Speaker 2: You are very very reasonable, Alice, and I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Missy.
Speaker 2: Do you want to say thank you now to Alice
Speaker 2: for agreeing to pay you the money? She's been so
Speaker 2: nice about it.
Speaker 8: Yes, you are being extremely gracious. Thank you so much, Alice.
Speaker 8: I really appreciate you paying me what you Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: We never have sarcasm on this show.
Speaker 5: There, but you're going to get your eighty dollars and
Speaker 5: don't worry about me. I'll get all the babysitters you.
Speaker 8: Okay, Oh, I'm not worried about you, Alice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I sound like a delight, Jeffine. I feel the
Speaker 2: good vibes, happy, and I know this isn't a second
Speaker 2: date update, but I would like to offer to send
Speaker 2: the two of you out to grab some ice cream together.
Speaker 8: I may eat all of it and she may get upset.
Speaker 2: Screw you.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm done.
Speaker 3: I am done.
Speaker 5: I'm done. I will talk to you. Never count your tampons.
Speaker 7: We didn't bring that up.
Speaker 3: That was weird, weird.
Speaker 5: Jeffrey in the morning so much.
Speaker 2: We didn't even get to really discuss in that call
Speaker 2: because the woman hung up on us so quickly.
Speaker 1: The dampon thing was wild.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, a lot of gangs.
Speaker 6: Out of nowhere accusation that wasn't even true.
Speaker 1: How could this woman sometimes be Okay, she's on the board,
Speaker 1: sometimes she's crazy, not like she.
Speaker 6: Just always is always annoyed by the younger generation always.
Speaker 2: I mean, I honestly, I don't even blame her for
Speaker 2: trying to get away because every single sentence that she
Speaker 2: said was just self and crim so I would have
Speaker 2: wanted to get off the phone with us too. But
Speaker 2: after the call was over, we did get an update
Speaker 2: from Missy. She received the eighty dollars Venmo payment, did
Speaker 2: a certain emoji attached to it? Our producer said, it
Speaker 2: was just one finger. Okay, I guess I'm the phone
Speaker 2: number one.
Speaker 3: You're the best babysit.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you it's the thumbs up because she got
Speaker 2: the money and everything's a okay, that's it, and you
Speaker 2: do two of those at the peace side. Hey, look
Speaker 2: at that. Look if you enjoy these calls, we just
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