I have a very difficult situation. I am not a highly paid nanny and I need my job and cannot lose this job. I work in the Park Slope area and make $10 an hour cash. I live out. I have three roommates at my home. My boss never addressed having company at her house, and I never considered it until I was out and ran into a roommate getting ice cream with my charge. We walked back to my boss's townhouse together. She came in and had some water and played a bit with my charges and I. That was three months ago.
Over the weekend, we were going out to a club and my friend put on a bracelet that I recognized as my boss's because of it's uniqueness. I don't know the cost of it, I don't think it was over the top expensive, but I recognized it because I had noticed it when my boss wore it. I was frozen and I asked my friend, "where did you get that?" She stumbled with her words, but clearly she had taken it from the house I worked at. She apologized and gave it back to me. I didn't go out with her and hadn't spoken to her all weekend.
This morning after my employer's left, I left the bracelet somewhere where the mother could eventually find it. I know where it is and I cannot stop thinking about it. I would never steal from anyone. I was on the fence about whether just admitting the whole truth of the story or leaving it when my roommate called me this morning to ask me if I noticed that Clare's stuff was all gone. Now,I am more nervous to tell them, because I don't know that she didn't take something else. I imagine that she didn't. I don't know the right thing to do.
As we have rent coming up in two weeks and there are now just the three of us to split it, I am especially scared about losing my job. I have only been at this job since January 10. I seriously think I am having an anxiety attack over this.
