Am I overreacting?
For context I’m au pairing in Germany where the law allows 30 hours a week. The parents left the country for 4 days.
My schedule was supposed to be:
Thursday 2 hours in the morning and then after school the whole night until Friday at 8 am when they were supposed to go to school.
Off time Friday after 8 am until Sunday noon (the grandma was taking them)
One of the kids woke up sick on Thursday so stayed home all day Thursday and Friday and didn’t go to grandma’s house.
What was supposed to be 1 overnight turned out to be 4 days of 24 hours work where I’m the only adult in the house.
The parents during a call said that it’s no big deal because the kid is independent since she’s 10 years old so I don’t have to spend all the time engaging in activities (which is true) she’s reading and watching TV.
But I do feel like it’s a big deal. When I counted the hours, it added up to 94 hours this week. They already gave me one week off without counting it as vacation time — should that be enough compensation? I just feel so overwhelmed right now with the amount of hours spent alone with a sick kid.