Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We've always said to please help yourself to anything you find, but our nanny has always brought her own lunch - from my experience, that's a typical arrangement. I think it's standard to say "help yourself" but not to seriously mean it literally and definitely not standard to have a live-out adding things to the grocery list beyond the very basics.
Honestly what most MBs are going to mean by "help yourself to anything" is that of course a nanny is free to have what she's feeding the kids, help herself to juice/water/milk/sodas, or even have a snack now and then. I imagine they don't literally mean to make yourself every single meal and add things to the grocery list.
Yes, I agree many people don't mean what they say. However, in a professional setting such as this it would help everyone out to be straightforward and honest with your language.