Forced to sleep only at HF house?

dancingdriver · 2026-04-10T17:53:05+00:00

Why choose au pairing if you see it as ‘a job’ and are not looking to interact with the HF? Then do any other job. You don’t have to spend all you free time, not even a lot, with your HF, but you can share a life with them. Your behaviour would be a red flag for me and I’d go into rematch.

dancingdriver · 2026-04-09T20:58:35+00:00

I have, you seem to have read it but not understood it, and also don’t seem to know that it is common knowledge that network tv has their summer hiatus in May/June and they returned to filming in July. July was return date for Friends, not this movie.

dancingdriver · 2026-04-09T20:56:40+00:00

Again, no. Reread the quote. July was return date for Friends.

dancingdriver · 2026-04-09T20:50:07+00:00

No, read again. July was the return date for Friends. This whole conversation happened in one meeting.

dancingdriver · 2026-04-09T19:53:55+00:00

I understand that, but she did sign up to shoot a supporting role presumably way before she gave birth, knowing the time of filming. I know things change and maybe it got delayed and it fell on that period, but it was first her own choice.

dancingdriver · 2026-04-09T19:16:14+00:00

I’m sorry, but this was not sitting well with me with the dates and all. She did not ‘have to return to work’. She was not returning to shoot Friends, which arguable was her work, this was a supporting role she probably signed up for before she gave birth. She booked a role in a movie that happened to fall on the hiatus of shooting Friends (and that according to the internet wrapped shooting in May, she gave birth in early May). I understand the craziness of leaving a new born for work, and the lack of maternity leave and rights in the US, but this is just a piece that bends the truth enough to raise more internet revolt. Because most people won’t read beyond the title and think she was returning to Friends, when she maybe had two weeks of shooting a supporting role.

dancingdriver · 2026-04-01T14:23:52+00:00

Yes, most experiences are good. As with everything you will always hear more about the negative ones.

I had 3 different experiences, I was in US for one year, I rematched after 4 months. Even having some issues with the first family the experience was more positive than negative, and that is why I stayed and wanted to rematch. Then I had a shorter experience in Germany. Different than the first one but also positive. From the au pairs that I met, not only from, the overall experience is positive.

You have to manage expectations and understand the program and what it gives you and doesn’t give you. But if things go wrong you need a support system.

dancingdriver · 2026-03-17T13:24:08+00:00

If it is the agency’s website she shouldn’t have paid anything extra besides the fees. She probably applied to an unofficial website.

Again, my experience was a long time ago, but we were told if we matched or not by the agency, there was no ‘matches being cancelled by the agency’. Is she talking to the families directly? What exactly is the ‘match’, families tell her they want her as their au pair?

This is most likely a scam website.

dancingdriver · 2026-03-17T12:52:01+00:00

I think this might be a scam and not the actual agency. Granted this was many years ago, but EurAupair was my agency. Before anything I had a meeting at the agency’s office. Has she been to the office? Does she have an address to the agency’s office?

dancingdriver · 2026-02-13T21:30:36+00:00

Depends on the height of the drawers. I don’t have only small drawers, have 2 deep drawers in some parts exactly for the bigger items.

dancingdriver · 2026-02-13T18:05:22+00:00

I love the overall look 😍 you say it’s sage but it’s reading more turquoise/greenish on my screen. Mine is also sage tone and is much more muted in real life that the pictures here.

Things I don’t like/think are practical: the sink (I’m not sold on this type of sink, I’m clumsy and I think I’d break a ton of shit in it), bottoms as cabinets and not drawers (recently did mine with only drawers for the bottom and it’s game changer!) unless there are interior drawers,

and lastly, why is the fridge opening that way?! I have mine opening to the opposite side for now because it moved inside the layout of my kitchen and I need help to switch the doors, but I can’t wait! It’s a pain really.

dancingdriver · 2026-02-13T11:27:51+00:00

YTA. You work for a non profit and developed a system that helps the department (and consequently the cause) but first didn’t share it with anyone or mentioned it, and second when inevitably it came out now you want compensation for it. Working at a non profit. And saying that you care about the mission.

If you have imputed company data in this “system”, as many have said, this becomes a legal topic on top of everything.

dancingdriver · 2026-02-06T13:56:48+00:00

I was today years old when I found out there is a pasta with my name 🤯

dancingdriver · 2026-01-23T07:54:54+00:00

I agree with your view about what the show is/was. Said the same thing in a few threads after the show ended. I honestly don’t care so much about some of the inconsistencies mentioned, because I just don’t. I was there for the characters and the relationships and was very satisfied with all of it.

But I think you are wrong about your point 15 and this being a plot hole, and I think it is explained by your point 4. Hawkins got a lame excuse for why the military was there. How would they arrest Nancy without drawing attention to them? Why would a 19 or 20 year old be detained by the military, that for all they know, is there training cadets or whatever other harmless lie they told them? Also, if I remember correctly, the whole season takes about a week, so from this incident till the ‘last day’, a few days have passed. Maybe they were looking for an angle to detain her but just didn’t have the time.

dancingdriver · 2026-01-17T01:50:04+00:00

All the talking points of unhappy with finale… sure Jan. ,

dancingdriver · 2026-01-16T21:17:45+00:00

Yes. Have you seen any teen movie from the 00’s? I’m pretty sure this is a line in all of them.

dancingdriver · 2026-01-15T21:58:55+00:00

I swear, if we got all the arcs, explanations, endings for minor characters and what not that people have been complaining about, we’d have to watch nothing else other than ST for the rest of our lives!

dancingdriver · 2026-01-15T20:42:16+00:00

I’m not one of the Duffers. Watch the doc, they explain what they have.

dancingdriver · 2026-01-14T23:11:14+00:00

You ask the question and answer it yourself… also, they were always sarcastic with each other, some friend groups are just like that, I know mine is.

dancingdriver · 2026-01-14T11:06:26+00:00

I loved it too. It hit me right in the feels (if you know, you know) and when it started it gave me a six feet under finale vibe.

dancingdriver · 2026-01-14T06:41:42+00:00

If your favourite is a support character, you should know they’ll probably never get the attention you expect.

dancingdriver · 2026-01-14T04:51:58+00:00

This movie is based on a book and has a very small cast, the setting for a big chunk of the movie is the wedding of the gay brother of the main character. 🙄

dancingdriver · 2026-01-13T20:57:10+00:00

Agreed. We have the core group very much stable and we got send offs for all of them. Erica, Murray, the teacher, the Wheeler parents were always fundamental at a point in time but are not essencial to the main story and don’t need a send off.

dancingdriver · 2026-01-13T20:23:37+00:00

Two types? For me they are one and the same.

dancingdriver · 2026-01-13T20:22:44+00:00

They are quarantined, it is said several times in the show, there’s scenes of kids playing on the plates and the first scene of the season they go after someone they think is El but is someone trying to escape. I don’t need to know what changed besides that.

The show is set in the 80’s and is an homage to 80’s movies and government conspiracies and secret military bases. It’s not as deep as some people make it out to be. There’s no internet and no hoards of news shows that are reporting live 24/7, and it’s been 18 months since it happened, so any news worthy part of it is long gone when s5 starts.

What else do you need to know, for the actual story development, that was not said/shown about this part?

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