Let go by my nanny family today...

[Anonymous]

Baking cookies is something you do as a project with an older kid- not with an infant. I bring some of my bosses treats, but they are ones I baked at my own house, on my own time.
Doing laundry for the children IS PART OF BEING A NANNY. I'll never understand why this is debated. If my nanny baked cookies instead of helping with baby chores, I would be mad too.
Both OP and her boss sound awful. I have no sympathy for either side.

OP, I'm sure you mean well, but remember, your job is to do all baby related chores to the best of your ability- I take care of twins and still help with laundry as much as I can, as well as changing crib sheets, and I help mom and dad with keeping the kitchen clean. We are team members. Baking isn't going to make anyone happy if the childs laundry is piled up.

[Anonymous]

My question is this: did you make the cookies during nap or when you were SUPPOSED to be with the nanny, doing baby things?

[Anonymous]

You’re very lucky she even gave you severance. She is the mom, you follow any and every rule. Your job as the nanny is to take care of her baby any way she tells you to. There is much more to being a nanny than just caring for the baby. While the baby sleeps you are to clean their stuff, make their food, etc. etc. I’m sorry but it just sounds like you were lazy. Taking a nap while being paid?? That’s absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re very lucky she even gave you severance. She is the mom, you follow any and every rule. Your job as the nanny is to take care of her baby any way she tells you to. There is much more to being a nanny than just caring for the baby. While the baby sleeps you are to clean their stuff, make their food, etc. etc. I’m sorry but it just sounds like you were lazy. Taking a nap while being paid?? That’s absurd.

Bull crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re very lucky she even gave you severance. She is the mom, you follow any and every rule. Your job as the nanny is to take care of her baby any way she tells you to. There is much more to being a nanny than just caring for the baby. While the baby sleeps you are to clean their stuff, make their food, etc. etc. I’m sorry but it just sounds like you were lazy. Taking a nap while being paid?? That’s absurd.

You are grossly misinformed. A good nanny would resign before following ill-conceived whims of irresponsible parents. Remember the lawyer mom who told the nanny to spank her child? You are nuts!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re very lucky she even gave you severance. She is the mom, you follow any and every rule. Your job as the nanny is to take care of her baby any way she tells you to. There is much more to being a nanny than just caring for the baby. While the baby sleeps you are to clean their stuff, make their food, etc. etc. I’m sorry but it just sounds like you were lazy. Taking a nap while being paid?? That’s absurd.

You are grossly misinformed. A good nanny would resign before following ill-conceived whims of irresponsible parents. Remember the lawyer mom who told the nanny to spank her child? You are nuts!!

Most parents have enough common sense to recognize there are things a nanny should never be asked to do. Anything else should be done, or the nanny should raise her concern with the parent.

More to the point, this thread is not about unreasonable requests... The nanny clearly was fired for incompetence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The MB and I kept butting heads over issues and it finally came to a head and she let me go with 2 weeks severance.

She was so strict with me and wanted me to stick to her schedule. She wanted me to take their baby for a walk in their neighborhood every morning at 10am. This drove me so stir crazy. I wanted to get out, go to the museum of zoo but she refused to buy passes so her baby and I could do that. Instead I drove and went for walks in the park each week, but she only wanted me to do outings in the afternoon, not morning.

Then there was the job creep. She would ask me to do more and more things. She wanted me to take out the baby’s nursery garbages or put in a load of laundry when he went down for his nap, she chastised me for taking a break on his nap and catching a snooze myself or scrolling my phone. I told her that if she wanted to add chores to my job duties she would need to pay me $25/hr, not the $20 she was paying me. Which is low to bring with!

Then she took issue with the times I did nice things for them. I decided to bake them cookies one day and was playing with her baby with some music on in the kitchen and she came out to tell me the noise was too loud as she was trying to work! She barely thanked me for the cookies. She was mad and always nickle and dimed me. She gave me money to buy baking supplies for their house ($75) because I told her I was running out of activities to do, then she refused to let me do it again a week later because it created “too many dishes” and I “wasn’t sticking to her schedule”

I honestly think she was nuts. She wanted me to stick to the same areas in her neighborhood for walks and never take her baby anywhere fun. She hated it when I left the house and would always demand to know where I was going and when I would be back.

Anyways, I guess this is just a rant but the audacity of these MB’s sometimes makes me wonder if nannying is even a good option for me in the long term.

Her house, her rules.