Having agreed to do the charge's laundry...

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in the same position, OP and I am at 35 hours a week. So many things I wished I'd made clear at hiring. I also make all my charge's baby food and freeze over half of each batch - and my employers and their free-grandmother-help-one-day-a-week just use the food I made for the baby during my working hours.

I've totally screwed myself out of earning overtime, especially for the day when employers get free babycare - all grandma has to do is watch, feed and change the baby. No one ever cleans the baby's room or disinfects toys but me.

9:24 again. You're getting paid, and Grandma isn't. Why not just make enough food for the week, instead of just enough for your hours? I am a huge advocate for nannies on this site, but come on! This is some petty BS.

Of course, I make enough food for the weekends and grandma's day - isn't that clear from my post?! My point is that grandma would be less likely to watch the baby for free if she had to do what I do in the course of a day. I have screwed myself out of any possible overtime.

I thought you were complaining that grandma uses the food you make, as if there isn't enough. I still don't get your beef? How did you screw yourself out of OT? You think that if you did less, they'd give you more hours? Your logic is just so off here.

Grandma is always complaining about how tired she is after eight hours with the baby. Can you imagine how she would feel if she had to do everything that she is doing PLUS make his baby food, do his laundry, clean his room and bathroom, (which is what I do every day) on top of his basic childcare? My thinking is that they would not be able to keep grandma and have to hire me for the other day.

Up top you referred to your charge as HER now you switched to HIS, did you forget which thread you were trolling?

My charges is a baby boy. OP's charge is a girl. Try to keep up, Dear.

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To the grandma pp, I don't think you are screwing yourself out of OT. DS has a part time nanny (nanny's choice because of school schedule) and my mom watches him 1 day a week. Does my mom do anywhere near as much as his nanny does? No way. But it is important to me that my son have a great bond with my mom, so I'm ok with the fact that there are dirty dishes to do and toys to be picked when I get home.

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Two towels and a floor blanket to be washed every day? New

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Anonymous wrote:Two towels and a floor blanket to be washed every day? New

Hit send too soon.
New pjs before every nap and at night? does MB never clean her house? I wash the floor blanket maybe once a week! Who cares about drool? It isn't spit up. Wow. That stinks, OP.

If it bothers you, you could speak up. But since she's (IMO) rather unreasonable when it comes to killing the environment with her obsessive washing, I doubt she'll be willing to bend on you doing the laundry.