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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You consider paying her for the gas to drive your kid around, and paying her extra to do extra work related to a move “accommodations”?

She taught your kid he useful skill of making his own lunch and you didn’t thank her but think she should be grateful you didn’t complain?[/quote]

+1 Many of the things you're citing as treating your nanny exceptionally well are standard practices.  In fact, paying for gas to cart your kid around is not something extra, and I hope that if she used her own car, so I hope you paid her something extra for that, because often parents provide their own car for the nanny to drive., It's also not a bad thing for a 10 year old to make their own lunch.  And allowing her time for doctor's appointments is also par for the course when you have a nanny.  It's a person you're employing, not a daycare center, they'll need time off occasionally to go about their lives.  [/quote]

I paid her IRS mileage rates for her mileage/gas, totally standard. I said “adjustments” not “exceptional benefits.” “Accommodate” refers to her leaving an hour earlier than she was hired for and arriving an hour later, and letting her supervise in her own home instead of ours when she wanted to. I don’t think there are too many nanny jobs where you can do your own work 6 hours a day while a 10 year old is in remote school, and makes his own lunch, it’s a lot easier than watching a toddler or younger child. [/quote]

I supervised remote school for 9 and 13 year olds. My rate was $30/hr and the kids made their own lunches. My bosses never asked me to do their errands (during a pandemic, no less!) and if they asked me to move their ‘bags by the door’ I would have told them to kick rocks. [/quote]

So what did you do all day?

Just sit there?

Talk about a work ethic![/quote]

A lot of people make 30$/hr and up, particularly those with college degrees.   They are not just "sitting there."   I don't think OP's job was that attractive for someone with a college degree.  I'm guessing OP's nanny took this job as a stop gap measure and will move to a more professional education setting shortly.  So there isn't going to be a bunch of gratitude that OP is expecting.  This is going to be the job she looks back on as the reason why I got my degree so I don't have to be subject to the whims of some mom again.[/quote]

OP here and I totally agree with you, but that doesn’t excuse her rude behavior.[/quote]

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