About Patricia

Reviewed on 8/31/2024

TLDR: repeatedly late, mental health concerns, harassment Our experience with Patricia was so bad that I feel a moral obligation to leave a review to help protect other families. We live in a very small town, and hired Patricia to help care for our 2 year old daughter for a total of three days (Thursday, Monday, and Tuesday) before it was clear that she was not a fit. On Thursday, Patricia showed up about 30 minutes late. After her arrival, I walked with Patricia and my child to the local coffee shop so they could get to know each other. En route, I explained to Patricia that there's a blind road/hill near our house, and physically showed her the safe route to walk with a stroller (in the opposite direction, through a school property that is open to the public). We walked around the school property and I showed her the campus (there's a hill with a nice view of the area, with walking trails). She seemed nice enough, so we invited her to return the following week. On Monday morning, Patricia showed up 15 minutes late. I got a bag ready with everything we would need, walked (the safe way, avoiding the blind hill, through the school property) with Patricia and my daughter to the Community Center and Library in our small town (a 1/2 mile walk, about 10 minutes). On the walk home, Patricia was very disoriented, had no idea where we were, or how to get home -- despite the fact that this was now the 4th time we had walked this very simple route. It did not occur to her to look at her phone for a map. If I had not been there, I am certain that she would not have been able to safely navigate (or perhaps not able to navigate at all) to our home with baby and stroller. On Tuesday morning, Patricia arrived 15 minutes late. Again we planned to walk to the Community Center and Library together, since I still couldn't trust her to walk alone with my child. We exited my neighborhood and I said, "Okay Patricia, show us how to get to the Library!" She took off and started to walk up the road toward the blind hill that I'd repeatedly warned her NOT to ever walk up with my child!! I couldn't believe it. I stopped her, and asked again the safe way to walk into town. (Again, we had already made this journey 4 times together.) She legitimately didn't know. After I told her yet again to NEVER ever walk up the blind hill, and told her to walk in the other direction through the school property, she then ... started to walk through the property... but in a totally different direction than the path into town. She said "Hmm.. well yesterday we had to walk up the big hill to go into town, so let's go that way." (Neither of those things are true.) I was supposed to be working at this point and started to get quite frustrated and also concerned for the safety of my child with this woman. On the .5 mile walk into town, she *yet again* had NO idea how to get to the Community Center and Library, needing directions multiple times. After the Library, we spent about 5 minutes at the playground (it was 11:30am, getting hot, and lunchtime). On the walk home, I asked Patricia to navigate. She was again very confused, and admitted that she had no idea how to get home. This walk is .5 miles. It is not complicated. There are THREE streets. I was absolutely aghast -- how could I ever safely leave my child alone with her? I asked the best way to pay her. Patricia gave me her email address and asked me to pay her via Venmo, which I promptly did. I never expected to her from her again. I was wrong. Two days later, Patricia contacted me. She said that she was having technical issues with Venmo, and demanded that I send her a second payment. I explained that I had already sent Venmo payment to the email address she provided, and sent a screenshot. According to Venmo, the transaction couldn't be cancelled. I told her that I would not be sending a duplicate payment. She responded with a vitriolic message that was both incoherent and threatening. I wondered if she was mentally unwell and/or involved in a payment scheme. She threatened to sue me if I didn't send a second payment, blamed her confused mental state on me (because it was hot and I made her go outside, of course), THEN she threatened multiple times to report me to child protective services, and THEN she told me it was "unprofessional" of me to nurse my child on demand. Pasting the actual message she sent me below. Do not walk -- RUN away. Fast. " Incompetent I can turn you in for hiring people then pulling your b**b constantly, breakfast on Monday was terrible you kept playing with her while she ate then told me she had sensory issues being talked to eat when she eats I purposefully came five minutes I wanted you to be done feeding her food instead of belittling if I tried to talk. You bragged to your land lady that H was superior to everyone else her age . I really would have like little H . You had us out in really hot weather at the playground my knees hurt so much . She could have called asleep but you constantly overed her your b**b. I was so overwhelmed with your behavior I went to the next day for a changing table and you changed her on the floor. If she had been with me she would have been developing friendships at her local library . On that Tuesday I was so thrown by your behavior I had trouble thinking straight. When I asked you which way to turn you wouldn’t tell what the he*k it was so hit out bad air quality I asked and you made me guess was right but you where terrible totally un professional pulling your b**b out for every reason . Thats not normal. I asked you on the way you were so mean I asked you at the end which way . You wouldn’t tell me you guessed right me not being professional I would have never that way to someone. I am turning you into social services. You got me to be there for free and the two times in the heat you wouldn’t tell me which way to turn . I will sue you for abuse to nd and turn into social services."