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VENTING- SO ANNOYED AT FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES STILl USING NANNIES AND CLEANERS
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Anonymous
| The house cleaners and lawn services do make me laugh. What else are you doing on the weekends? |
Anonymous
We aren’t using a lawn service or house cleaners, but on the weekends we are taking care of our small children, working, and catching up on sleep, because I can only fit in 5 hours a night during the week, given work and childcare. |
Anonymous
| People judging others with no facts is typical on DCUM. My brother and SIL have 2 babysitters rotating because they're both front line workers. Do you think they're happy that they can't be at home with their child? Yes its a risk they took when took on front line jobs and had kids, but at least they are passing on the values of how to be the type of person who works to save others, rather than the person who stays safe and judges others with no facts. |
Anonymous
Not OP and I don't feel as strongly as OP, but: They are not just putting their family at risk! (Especially if their system is not completely closed, like the person with the nanny home alone, and for whom they are the ones to get groceries, which I think is rare.) They are putting their nanny at risk, even with their consent, and they are putting everyone else at greater risk by increasing the risk that their family and the nanny's family will be exposed, bring it into stores, etc. It may be a smaller risk than some other activities, but it doesn't magically become a non-risk because they need or "need" it. I'm ambivalent about the nanny thing depending on the circumstances, much more judgey about cleaning and lawn care (but know some folks have disabilities and other special circumstances). But I do have one acquaintance/friend who is apparently bringing her nanny in 5 days/wk and she has a hobby job that nets her $0. She really does not need a nanny. She just wants one. I'm sure she feels that her work keeps her sane, etc., but I do resent her because she talks the absolute most smack about eating the rich and burning down capitalism and it's like... really? This whole thing is bringing out a lot of true colors. |
Anonymous
| Why on earth would I fire my landscapers? |
Anonymous
Who cares about a lawn service? |
Anonymous
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I fully agree. Our neighbors two doors down work from home in very good jobs (lawyer and non profit executive). They have had visitors, construction workers, cleaners, you name it. Their kid's nanny is also still coming daily. Meanwhile, we are paying our nanny to stay home and juggling two kids, cleaning, cooking and two ful time jobs.
They are absolutely increasing everyone’s risk - we live in a block of row houses. |
Anonymous
It actually is, especially when you are talking about businesses like landscapers and nannies that are specifically allowed by the governor's orders. |
Anonymous
| Do you think posting this is going to change their behavior? Or do anything other than raise your blood pressure? |
Anonymous
| YOU MUST BE A CAPS FAN. ALL CAPS |
Anonymous
| Just don’t say you are in for flattening the curve if you can’t clean your own house or do minimal yardwork. Mowing once a week doesn’t take that long. |
Anonymous
| Why can't you have a Nanny? If it is required so you can feed your kids and pay your rent so be it. |
Anonymous
| How does me having our house cleaner come in once a month affect you? I’m sorry, I don’t buy all the mass hysteria. |
Anonymous
 thanks for the morning laugh!
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Anonymous
Explain how firing your lawn guy flattens the curve. You are nowhere near him! |