viral San Francisco nanny ad

[Anonymous]

I’m a nanny in LA for school age kids and make $35/hr. I don’t do 1/10th of this list. Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a nanny in LA for school age kids and make $35/hr. I don’t do 1/10th of this list. Ridiculous.

Nice to know there are some professionals out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It might be that she has a particular immigrant in mind. Maybe it is a relative of a friend or a former au pair. If you can prove you tried to find an American to do the job but can't find an American to do the job you can help someone with specific skills to get a green card.
A relative did this in California. They loved their nanny who overstayed her visa. They wrote an outlandish job posting exaggerating what the nanny did. Like she occasionally cooked Jewish food, ran with the dog (because she liked running), knew how to play tennis and soccer, spoke Spanish, etc. The ad required the person to do all these things and more that were specifically crafted to things the nanny knew how to do. No one applied for the job. The nanny got her green card

I’m calling BS on this unless they committed fraud.

It’s not fraud.

Crafting a very, very specific job posting and then not getting any (qualified) responses due to how specific it is is actually common in the nanny community. That’s why we always recommend that employers list everything they want don’t and the rate they can pay, then reevaluate if the response was lower than expected. It’s the best way to convince prospective employers that the duties and rate aren’t commensurate.

In the above type of situation, there are very few people capable and willing to do the job, because it’s tailored to a certain person. Knowing how to play two sports is implying that the person hired will play them with the kids, but it’s just an implication. Running with the dog is totally acceptable, even if it’s an add on that the current job holder voluntarily started doing. Ability to cook certain types of food is common, with the actual percentage of cooking being lower than 100%. Speaking Spanish as a native language is actually the easiest to find of the four listed qualities. That post is non-discriminatory (don’t have to be Jewish to cook Jewish food, could be born anywhere and still have Spanish as a language in childhood home), and if there aren’t any applicants other than the current person who needs a visa renewal or green card? Exceptions get made.

Nannies don’t get green cards for being nannies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, another gem:

“o Family eats organic and is allergic to cow and goat dairy, chicken eggs, green beans and watermelon. Can eat duck eggs. Must be able to produce simple, delicious meals with consistency and accuracy meeting our allergy requirements”

I also like the juxtaposition of these two bulleted items:

“o Has room in their heart to love the kids and the mom; has a high capacity to be loved deeply by them
o Has appropriate boundaries in relationships and interactions and will teach the children the same including appropriate privacy and safety.”

LOL on those two requirements. The nanny should really, really, really love the kids AND her employer, but not go thinking she's part of the family or anything.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t really a bad deal:

It’s $35 to $40 an hour. Then there’d be time and a half for any overtime. And if the person wanted, they could live in our pool cottage, and the rental value for that is about $3,000 a month. They’d get a car that they could use exclusively for themselves; that’s valued at about $800 a month. There’d be paid days off, paid holidays, vacation pay, health benefits and the person would get to travel with us. We do some pretty cool vacations. We go to Europe a lot. We always stay in really nice places and have a lot of fun. And we travel to Hawaii, Central America. And when that person would be traveling, that person would only be working eight to nine hours a day.