Nanny cooking for herself

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She should do her meal prep at her house and bring a Tupperware contain for lunch. Not the other way around. I would tell her that.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't care right now while your baby is sleeping a lot. Some nannies read, watch tv, take a class ...

But if this has become her routine (basically do her dinner prep during the workday at your house), and she is still doing it when your child is older, I might have a problem with it. It just depends on how she works it into the day. I kind of feel like if she has time to do full-scale cooking for herself, maybe she does need something else to do, like cooking for you guys.

It's on the border of inappropriate, because it basically advertises that she has a lot of nothing to do all day long, presumably at a high rate of pay. That doesn't generally endear you to your employers.

Why would you make the asinine presumption of a high pay rate? Ninety-nine percent of you can only afford average (or below average) wages for your average babysitters.

Anything over the $12/hr minimum wage in this area is a high rate of pay for doing nothing. You really can get a "good enough" babysitter to sit in your house and websurf while your baby sleeps. That's why if you come with lots of credentials and such, making it clear that you aren't using them a lot of the time is probably not the best plan.

Smh...and sadly this is the logic used to justify paying a nanny so little. And if someone called you cheap you would be oh so offended.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't care right now while your baby is sleeping a lot. Some nannies read, watch tv, take a class ...

But if this has become her routine (basically do her dinner prep during the workday at your house), and she is still doing it when your child is older, I might have a problem with it. It just depends on how she works it into the day. I kind of feel like if she has time to do full-scale cooking for herself, maybe she does need something else to do, like cooking for you guys.

It's on the border of inappropriate, because it basically advertises that she has a lot of nothing to do all day long, presumably at a high rate of pay. That doesn't generally endear you to your employers.

Why would you make the asinine presumption of a high pay rate? Ninety-nine percent of you can only afford average (or below average) wages for your average babysitters.

Anything over the $12/hr minimum wage in this area is a high rate of pay for doing nothing. You really can get a "good enough" babysitter to sit in your house and websurf while your baby sleeps. That's why if you come with lots of credentials and such, making it clear that you aren't using them a lot of the time is probably not the best plan.

People like you get quickly weeded out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So she's using electricity and there's wear and tear on your pots and pans and silverware. As long as she's cleaning up after herself and not letting an infant cry while she cooks, it's okay.

I would not like her to be taking home my Tupperware to her house, but other than that it's fine.

How about if she returns it the next morning? Or would it get contaminated?

That wouldn't work for us because we have four tupperware bowls (they come in a set of four) and we are regularly using all four.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Should she be scrubbing your toilets instead?
Some of you are insufferable.

Unbelievable! Complain, OP and then find yourself a new nanny. You are crazy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So she's using electricity and there's wear and tear on your pots and pans and silverware. As long as she's cleaning up after herself and not letting an infant cry while she cooks, it's okay.

I would not like her to be taking home my Tupperware to her house, but other than that it's fine.

How about if she returns it the next morning? Or would it get contaminated?

That wouldn't work for us because we have four tupperware bowls (they come in a set of four) and we are regularly using all four.

No one here cares about your supply of plastics, or lack there of.

[Anonymous]

OP, I am a nanny and no way I would bring my groceries and cook in my employer's house. It might not be rude for some, but it's not her place to cook from scratch. It's better to talk to he now because you're uncomfortable with that. Your house your rules full stop.

[Anonymous]

The poor woman is probably bored out of her mind. Maybe she'd enjoy cooking for op.

For God's sake...ASK her!

[Anonymous]

this is kind of a weird thing to do, and i wouldn't have done it while nannying. that said, you could probably casually bring it up next time it's happening and ask her about it. maybe her kitchen is small or old, or gas/oven etc. are not working, and she feels this is a good use of her off time. just ask, not in an accusatory way, before you decide what to do about this. if you're so worried about the tupperware why not just buy more and let her know that she can use it if she returns it? or buy some of the glass containers with the snap on lids-better for the environment, won't degrade in the dishwasher, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The poor woman is probably bored out of her mind. Maybe she'd enjoy cooking for op.

For God's sake...ASK her!

Yes this. How old is your chld OP? In a few months she can be making fresh purées for your child and she won’t have time to be bored.

[Anonymous]

Totally have her make a double batch so your family can benefit as well.

[Anonymous]

I would let it go as long as the baby is well taken care of.
She won't have the time to cook once the baby walks etc anyway.

[Anonymous]

At a minimum, the nanny should have asked permission to use the HF home to do this elaborate cooking. It is rather presumptuous of her. Not a "normal" practice at all. I would discourage it. It sounds like she might need more child care duties or more direction.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like it might be normal wherever she comes from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Totally have her make a double batch so your family can benefit as well.

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