Can't help feeling weirded out by camera in home.

[Anonymous]

If you only sit for the family a few days a week, and if the security system includes a camera outside the front door, then as creeped out as you are by them, you have to accept that they didn't' install this system with you in mind. You happen to be in front of the camera but it wasn't put there to watch you.

[Anonymous]

If I wanted to be performing for a camera and viewed by unknown persons, I'd be in Hollywood now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would there be any legal concerns if they put clips of the nanny doing something silly/stupid/embarrassing on YouTube?

I thought that normally employers are legally required to put in writing information regarding possible use of video taping employees.

Anyone know about legal limitations?

[Anonymous]

OP, I think you have gotten a lot of one sided responses, from MBs and nannies here, but I think the best advice is they have a right to the cameras, you have a right to feel a little weird about them. If you have a good relationship with the family you work for, just talk to them. They probably like the cameras because they are new and give some insight in their child's day (as an MB, the only thing I have ever envied about daycare are the ones with the cameras - not to spy on the caregivers, but just because we genuinely love our child's nanny and I would love to see their interaction because I know it is a different dynamic than when I am there). And similar to the horror stories about WAH parents, your DB probably thought he was calling to reinforce you without realizing it would make you feel undermined.

A simple conversation could go a long way here. Just say "I understand your reasons for wanting cameras and I am happy to have them in common areas because we have nothing to hide about our days, but I hope you can understand that having the camera on all day takes some getting used to, and it is particularly challenging if you call to comment on something you see on camera. While I understand you wanting to have input, I think our day goes better if you let me handle correcting DC during the day as we always have. It was jarring to have DB call about jumping on the couch, and while I am happy to discuss strategies for redirecting or discipline if you have ideas, it would feel much less odd for me if we talked after work about any non-emergency issues that you see on camera." Reasonable bosses would get that (and yes, reasonable MBs and DBs do exist), and I would actually feel bad for undermining my child's nanny if I saw it from her perspective and we talked about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i honestly don't see what the big deal is. just go about your day, you'll all get used to it.

How many minutes a day is someday spying on you?

There is a drop cam in the kitchen and also one in the playroom, both of which MB watches from work. She keeps them pulled up on her computer screen all day. It's really not that big of a deal. What are you doing that can't be seen?

[Anonymous]

As a nanny, I have no problem being filmed, but being watched live and micromanaged is not acceptable to me. I would not feel comfortable with live cameras up and this would not be a good position for me. Just my personal feelings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a nanny, I have no problem being filmed, but being watched live and micromanaged is not acceptable to me. I would not feel comfortable with live cameras up and this would not be a good position for me. Just my personal feelings

That's the thing. When MB is the micromanagement type, you never know how far that goes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i honestly don't see what the big deal is. just go about your day, you'll all get used to it.

How many minutes a day is someday spying on you?

There is a drop cam in the kitchen and also one in the playroom, both of which MB watches from work. She keeps them pulled up on her computer screen all day. It's really not that big of a deal. What are you doing that can't be seen?

Does it have sound?