Teen claims she wasnt paid for babysitting duties because she wore inappropriate lace tank top
This Brandy Melville-bearing babysitter brought the receipts.A 15-year-old babysitter took to Reddit’s popular R/AmIOverreacting community to ask for help on an age-old issue — payment disputes between babysitters and the families who employ them.Mae, as identified by the text screenshots in the post, shared that she reached out to a family she regularly babysat for after they allegedly neglected to pay her several days after the typical period.The teen prefaced the screenshots by explaining that the parents were “more on the conservative side, and a lot more religious than my family, but they are generally nice,” so she initially approached the situation thinking the settlement snub was simply a mistake.What she discovered once she texted Marianne, the children’s mother, was completely out of left field — the family had purposefully not paid her, claiming that they don’t feel comfortable doing so because of the teen’s “inappropriate clothing.” Mae explained in the post that she was wearing a sweatshirt over the transgressive tank top for the majority of the visit, and only took it off when the two young girls asked her to run around and play with them.
Internet sleuths quickly discovered that the inappropriate shirt in question was Brandy Melville‘s Skylar Tank Top.As she explained in the message to Marianne, the 15-year-old wore the tank top and sweatpants so she could be “in something flexible to run around in” with the kids.Despite this, the teen profusely apologized for making the parents feel uncomfortable.“If they had such an issue with the outfit, they shouldn’t have let OP babysit and should have dismissed her before working a full 7 hours,” reasoned a reply.
“The fact that they’re refusing to pay now, they’re 100% being shady.”Others were simply in awe at the fact that Marianne offered Mae a “second chance” after lowballing her, especially at what many replies agreed was already a fairly low rate for two childr...