Phones & Cellphones

When Your Au Pair Loses Your Smart Phone

by cv harquail May 7, 2013
droid meets pavement

Yeah, it happens.  The phone falls out of a pocket into a puddle. Or a purse gets stolen. Whatever the reason … If your au pair loses or breaks the smart phone that you provided for her/him, it is up to her/him to replace it, or to pay to replace it. One of our au […]

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Hello? Your Au Pair needs good “phone manners”

by cv harquail June 25, 2009
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I just got off the phone with the au pair of one of my friends, and I had two serious problems during the call. Neither problem was caused by the au pair’s still-limited English. Both of these problems were cause by bad phone manners. Said another way, the problems would not even have occurred if […]

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