Underpaid... how to approach the subject

[Anonymous]

That is the parents' or housekeeper's job. My sister did not get a masters' in educational psychology and teach for 20+ years to do some lazy ass parents' housekeeping. She is raising the goddam kids; parents are too busy at the office to raise their own kids.

[Anonymous]

I would ask for $8 more an hour with the baby. Then you can look for another job. You are a nanny not a maid!! They are taking advantage of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would ask for $8 more an hour with the baby. Then you can look for another job. You are a nanny not a maid!! They are taking advantage of you.

Yep - those first two sentences go hand in hand. Asking for a 40% raise pretty much guarantees you'll be looking for another job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would approach this as a conversation about the scope of the job with a second baby coming. You're in a perfect place to do that appropriately and to simultaneously address the job creep.

"Jane and Bob, can we talk about your expectations when the second baby comes? " See what they say. Be prepared with language like:

- I'm really excited about the new baby but it will change the job significantly so what I wanted to see what you were thinking in terms of my rate, the scope of work, revising our contract, etc...

- One thing that has happened over the past year is that I've slowly expanded my responsibilities to include.... I have two concerns, one is that it probably won't be realistic for me to continue doing those things when the baby arrives, and also I feel that they were tasks that were fairly significantly outside the scope of the contract so if you wanted me to continue trying to do everything I would ask for consideration of that in my compensation.

- I really enjoy working with all of you, and therefore have hesitated to raise any of these concerns, but I really appreciate that you treat this job professionally, use a contract, etc... so I wanted to be professional in my approach to this conversation also, and to ask for this discussion before the baby comes.

Good luck OP.

This is the first helpful response. Ignore anyone in life that jumps to extremes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is the parents' or housekeeper's job. My sister did not get a masters' in educational psychology and teach for 20+ years to do some lazy ass parents' housekeeping. She is raising the goddam kids; parents are too busy at the office to raise their own kids.

People who work are too lazy to raise their children!?! I hope you’re just a troll and in no way rearing (because they aren’t cattle) children.