S/O what things does your nanny do that annoy you?

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Anonymous wrote:Our previous nanny was lazy. I would find dried play dough and paint on the chairs. Every weekend I would organize the toys and by Tuesday everything would be all over the house. She was the type who would let the kids scatter pieces of game or stuff all over the house and then throw whatever into bins. My kids napped for 3+ hours a day and she would sit on the couch and read a book.

At first the messes she left were just annoying BUT after awhile I realized that we were wasting money paying someone a high amount to sit on the couch for 3 hours. We replaced her with a nanny that is not lazy and does light housekeeping. SO MUCH BETTER!!!

Was this nanny shocked when you fired her? She deserved it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our nanny is also wasteful. I no she isn't as wasteful with her own items so it does bother me alot.

Also, her constant texting annoys me. I've had a talk with her and she still does it but when i'm around she tries to hide it.

What also annoys me is the way she comes a minute or two late and then takes several minutes to situated.

There's alot of little things that annoy me. She does have good qualities as well.

My AP is SOOOOO wasteful also. BUT, not with her items. She will use half a tube of $10 diaper rash cream on one diaper, 30 oz's of dish soap in one week (WE HAVE A DISHWASHER AND ONLY HAND WASH POTS AND PANS), a thick stack of wipes when changing a small poopy diaper, cook WAY too much food for the kids and throws it away when surprise surprise, they dont eat it etc. It is getting on my last nerve! I noticed that her facewash in the bathroom hasnt gone down much in months, so she DOES know how to use things without excess.

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Anonymous wrote:14:31 not a nanny but I use paper towels (I only use Bounty) for absolutely everything. Imcluding washing my face, showerinh, cleanup. I think kitchen towels germ dispensers.

You use paper towels to shower?

+1

Yes. I used to use a loofa mitt but broke out in rash and dermatologist told me to stop using it, and washcloths, because they were laden with nacyeria. Even though I poured boiling water over loofa every week. That was 10 years ago and haven't had a rash since then. Four sheets of Bounty, filded ovrr, makes a great wachcloth.

You do know you can...wash...washcloths, right? After each use, if you like...

No way for real?

[Anonymous]

Overall I think my nanny is amazing but there are 2 things that drive me nuts about her. The first is she organizes dc's closet to where I feel bad to touch my own Kid's clothes to dress him! Everything is by size then season then color. It's like a damn rainbow in there. My mother thinks this is awesome of my nanny, which is probably why it bugs me so much. The second is that she is strictly a baby and toddler nanny. Zero-2, which I thought was fabulous when DC was a newborn. He will be 2 at the end of summer and I know I have to let her go. She is so amazing with DC. I worry all the time I won't be able to replace her with someone like....her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Overall I think my nanny is amazing but there are 2 things that drive me nuts about her. The first is she organizes dc's closet to where I feel bad to touch my own Kid's clothes to dress him! Everything is by size then season then color. It's like a damn rainbow in there. My mother thinks this is awesome of my nanny, which is probably why it bugs me so much. The second is that she is strictly a baby and toddler nanny. Zero-2, which I thought was fabulous when DC was a newborn. He will be 2 at the end of summer and I know I have to let her go. She is so amazing with DC. I worry all the time I won't be able to replace her with someone like....her.

Seriously? That drives you nuts? You are lucky!

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Bull shit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:14:31 not a nanny but I use paper towels (I only use Bounty) for absolutely everything. Imcluding washing my face, showerinh, cleanup. I think kitchen towels germ dispensers.

So do I. In fact, I use three squares as a washcloth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Overall I think my nanny is amazing but there are 2 things that drive me nuts about her. The first is she organizes dc's closet to where I feel bad to touch my own Kid's clothes to dress him! Everything is by size then season then color. It's like a damn rainbow in there. My mother thinks this is awesome of my nanny, which is probably why it bugs me so much. The second is that she is strictly a baby and toddler nanny. Zero-2, which I thought was fabulous when DC was a newborn. He will be 2 at the end of summer and I know I have to let her go. She is so amazing with DC. I worry all the time I won't be able to replace her with someone like....her.

Maybe you could try being as good as she is.

[Anonymous]

Ah yes, the age old paper towel issue.

Nannies need a ton of paper towels, ok MBs? To wipe your kids' hands, mouths and in some cases snotty noses, to clean up after you and your children (which can take many depending on the size of your counters & table and how messy your kids are), to dry their own hands after a lot of washing to prevent themselves from getting sick for your kids (no offense, but its kind of gross to use our employer's bathroom hand towel), cleaning up after crafts and activities, etc. Some nannies even need to take them to the park to dry off slides so your kids can play more comfortably.

The point is, stop it. We work hard enough as it is, and MBs like you come along and want to make it even harder by limiting our abilities to do it. If you're that concerned about paper towels, switch them all our for dishrags.

The rest of this stuff is also really petty. No nanny is perfect and each has different ways of doing things, which will always include some flaws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ah yes, the age old paper towel issue.

Nannies need a ton of paper towels, ok MBs? To wipe your kids' hands, mouths and in some cases snotty noses, to clean up after you and your children (which can take many depending on the size of your counters & table and how messy your kids are), to dry their own hands after a lot of washing to prevent themselves from getting sick for your kids (no offense, but its kind of gross to use our employer's bathroom hand towel), cleaning up after crafts and activities, etc. Some nannies even need to take them to the park to dry off slides so your kids can play more comfortably.

The point is, stop it. We work hard enough as it is, and MBs like you come along and want to make it even harder by limiting our abilities to do it. If you're that concerned about paper towels, switch them all our for dishrags.

The rest of this stuff is also really petty. No nanny is perfect and each has different ways of doing things, which will always include some flaws.

thank you! I was shaking my head reading these ungrateful women complaining about someone being clean. they don't realize that while it may be second nature for them to touch things around their homes or certain parts of their kids even, nannies are not as comfortable and usually have worked with many kids and had many training hours agonizing over proper hand washing which includes using disposable towels.

the family that i nanny for now allows their ds to wipe his mouth and nose with the dish cloth in the kitchen, and then won't say a thing when he puts it back on the counter! they will also use it to dry hands and wipe things not even thinking about it. its so incredibly gross. they have no idea the lengths we have to go through in order to stay healthy and avoid calling in. I love when they leave and I get him to take all of the cloths straight to the laundry room. And they keep removing the roll I put in their master bathroom for myself when i wash. I don't want to share towels with them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the value of this thread. My nanny does some tiny things that occasionally mildly annoy me. I'm sure she can say the same about me. I can also say that about my kids, my husband, my best friend, my boss, etc...

But overall my nanny is terrific. She is loving, responsible, reliable, experienced, honest, fun, engaged, creative, etc... I could focus on the quirky little things that I don't love, or I can focus on the huge, important things that make her a major reason for my children's happiness and health and my family's well-being overall.

If you focus on the negative then that's what you see/think. If you hired someone you value and trust, and he/she does the job you want in a way you want, then you should focus on the big picture. None of us are perfect and I really think the whole focus of this thread (and often this whole forum) is really counter-productive for healthy nanny/boss relationships.

THIS! The negativity in this forum is overwhelming.

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Troll poster resurrected this 3 year old post to start up a nanny-MB war. Do not feed.

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Anonymous wrote:Troll poster resurrected this 3 year old post to start up a nanny-MB war. Do not feed.

Agree!!!

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Anonymous wrote:14:31 not a nanny but I use paper towels (I only use Bounty) for absolutely everything. Imcluding washing my face, showerinh, cleanup. I think kitchen towels germ dispensers.

You use paper towels to shower?

+1

my nanny is so annoying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

My AP is SOOOOO wasteful also. BUT, not with her items. She will use half a tube of $10 diaper rash cream on one diaper, 30 oz's of dish soap in one week (WE HAVE A DISHWASHER AND ONLY HAND WASH POTS AND PANS), a thick stack of wipes when changing a small poopy diaper, cook WAY too much food for the kids and throws it away when surprise surprise, they dont eat it etc. It is getting on my last nerve! I noticed that her facewash in the bathroom hasnt gone down much in months, so she DOES know how to use things without excess.

I know this post is years old, but when I saw this post, I thought Yes!!! That sounds a lot like DC's nanny. She goes through, I kid you not, 32 oz. of dish soap in TEN DAYS. I have told her NOT to hand wash dishes (we have a dishwasher) except a handful of things that add up to maybe five items daily. But she washes everything, which is annoying because she does a mediocre job (I always find crud on dishes she washes) and probably would do better if she washed just the few things I asked and she often leaves something or another not done, which she could have done if she left the dishes! Plus, even with washing all the dishes, I still don't get how you can use up a full-sized bottle of dish soap in less than two weeks...!

Also, I try to always have an extra whatever it is, pack of diapers, box of oatmeal, tube of eczema, but occasionally it slips my mind and we're on say our last pack of diapers. I've asked the nanny DOZENS OF TIMES please please let me know if we run low of something so I can get more before we run out. She NEVER does. Back when I kept asking her to do this, she would tell me once out of maybe ten times. I got so tired of being a broken record and not getting through to her that I've stopped asking her. Now she never tells me. It has happened that I came home from work early and before heading to the drugstore, I asked the nanny, is there anything we need for the baby? She said no. I left, came back, nanny left. As I'm getting DC ready for bed, I notice there are ZERO DIAPERS. Luckily, I had a spare in the diaper bag, but I was pissed! And this happens all the time. I swear that the nanny has something mental going on.