Scheduled break while on the job?

[Anonymous]

Tons of people don’t have a lunch break . What do you think doctors and nurses do ? A nanny is entitled to a 20-30 minute break to eat and use the bathroom . Loosely watching your kids is acceptable for this time as most professional parents can’t take breaks from their work to relieve the nanny . Some nannies do seem to push the line and take extremely long breaks . An hour isn’t really reasonable and it seems like you are dissatisfied with her overall laziness throughout the day . It may be time to find a new nanny .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a nanny and that sounds very rude from you to say. Saying that you are "paying for the whole day"? When the nanny it's suppose to eat her lunch? There is nothing wrong that she prepares her lunch and eat "people need to eat" while they work 40 to 50 during the day. She is still watching their kids while she eats. This is not about taking 20,30 or even an 1 hour of lunch break. This a human thing. A nanny will eat when she is done and will go to the bathroom when she feel like going to No. 1 or No. 2. You must he such a awful employer. I am so sorry for your nanny.

You do realize that many people don't get paid for lunch breaks at their job.

Who? I have never had a job without a paid lunch break. I can go out,
Eat in break room, or at my desk. Nannies get a lunch break. Yn
You sound as cheap as OP

I've never been paid for a lunch break as a salaried or hourly employee. What industry do you work in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tons of people don’t have a lunch break . What do you think doctors and nurses do ? A nanny is entitled to a 20-30 minute break to eat and use the bathroom . Loosely watching your kids is acceptable for this time as most professional parents can’t take breaks from their work to relieve the nanny . Some nannies do seem to push the line and take extremely long breaks . An hour isn’t really reasonable and it seems like you are dissatisfied with her overall laziness throughout the day . It may be time to find a new nanny .

Eh... doctor here. I always have a lunch break. All the docs in my practice do too and so do our nurses and PA’s. And so does our nanny.

[Anonymous]

You’re a doctor ? How is your nanny able to take a lunch break if you’re in clinic ? Only when your child is napping . Older children don’t nap .
I’m also a doctor and I don’t get a lunch break . I eat quickly between seeing patients , something from my pocket , big whoop life goes on .

[Anonymous]

When I nannied, I always ate with the kids while they were eating lunch. That was our lunch time. Even when you are spoon feeding a baby, you can eat yourself. What is the nanny doing while the kids are eating?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re a doctor ? How is your nanny able to take a lunch break if you’re in clinic ? Only when your child is napping . Older children don’t nap .
I’m also a doctor and I don’t get a lunch break . I eat quickly between seeing patients , something from my pocket , big whoop life goes on .

I’m in private practice, Dr., and everyone in our practice gets a lunch break. Our nanny does too when our baby is napping and preschooler is doing his reading/quiet time.

You actually eat something from your pocket after treating patients?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re a doctor ? How is your nanny able to take a lunch break if you’re in clinic ? Only when your child is napping . Older children don’t nap .
I’m also a doctor and I don’t get a lunch break . I eat quickly between seeing patients , something from my pocket , big whoop life goes on .

You out food in your pocket and eat and then see patients. Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it normal or standard for a full-time nanny to get a scheduled lunch break while on the job? During this time, she sits in the dining room while the kids are playing in the living room. She’s not really engaging with them but loosely keeping an eye on them. The eating lunch part is around 15-30 minutes. She usually prepares her lunch on the job—bringing sandwich or salad materials to wash and chop or food to bake in the oven—and all in all, with a bathroom break after, the lunch break is 30-60 minutes. We are paying her for working the whole day (we don't reduce it by 30 or 60 minutes). Overall, the nanny isn’t very active during the day and gets lots of down time reading with the kids or just sitting by them while they play. My question is whether all or most nannies are getting a scheduled lunch break?

Are you ok?? Like seriously; are you ok. Your payment of a service doesn't entitle you to mistreatments. Do you really thing that being sitting in your home while keeping an eye on your children is a break??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a nanny and that sounds very rude from you to say. Saying that you are "paying for the whole day"? When the nanny it's suppose to eat her lunch? There is nothing wrong that she prepares her lunch and eat "people need to eat" while they work 40 to 50 during the day. She is still watching their kids while she eats. This is not about taking 20,30 or even an 1 hour of lunch break. This a human thing. A nanny will eat when she is done and will go to the bathroom when she feel like going to No. 1 or No. 2. You must he such a awful employer. I am so sorry for your nanny.

You do realize that many people don't get paid for lunch breaks at their job.

Ok, then the parent should come relive nanny so she can “clock out” and go to lunch.

Some parents want their cake and eat it too— you don’t want the nanny to have the same benefits as any other occupation but then turn around and compare a nanny’s role to other employee.

Nanny’s get breaks when they can and it’s not always at the same time each day.