Are these parents for real? Is slavery legal again? $400 a week?

[Anonymous]

Saw this on care.com and I am speechless

Kara S.
$400/wk: Nanny Needed For 6 Mo Old In Alexandria. MUST Be Legal To Work In US & CPR/First Aid Cert
Alexandria, VA | Starts Mon, March 06, 2017 | Transportation Required
10-15/hr 1 Child Full Time Recurring
We need a nanny in Alexandria beginning early March 2017. At that time our baby will be 6 months old.
We will pay a flat $400. 00/week for a nanny to come to our home between 30-45 hours each week Monday - Friday.
Parents' work schedules are flexible and both parents sometimes work from home so some weeks you'll be needed only 30 hours, some weeks you may be needed up to 45 hours. We will pay $400. 00/week each week as a flat rate.
You'll arrive around 8:30 or 9 & stay until 5 or 5:30, although some days you'll get to leave sooner.
1. You must have prior infant care experience.
2. You must be legal to work in the US.
3. You must be Infant/child CPR & First Aid Certified.
4. We have a dog, so you must be an animal lover.
5. Current Vaccinations
If you respond to this ad, please address all 5 of these points in your response. THANKS
Number of children:
Number of Children 1
Who you'll care for:
1 Child
1 Newborns (0-6 mos)
When is care needed:
Start Date/Time: Monday, 03/06/17 at 12:00 AM
We're looking for:
Has Own Transportation
Non-Smoker
Comfortable With Pets
Laundry
Willing to Drive Children

[Anonymous]

On the worst weeks they are paying $8.90/hour, which is above minimum wage. On the good weeks they are paying $13 an hour. Also above minimum wage. They are flouting overtime laws, but so do many.

You know perfectly well they won't find anyone decent with that offer, so it will be their burden to bear.

Why the outrage?

[Anonymous]

I am outraged because a min wage worker and a nanny you leave your kids with is not the same.

If I was underqualified i would go flip burgers at Burger King. And flipping burgers is not the same as taking care of a baby.

As a nanny you will take responsibility for an infant, clean up after her, do her laundry, pretty much raise her all day long, be CPR certified and take home $7 an hour. Right.

I am outraged because there are so many parents like these that they feel they are entitled to a nanny because they are too busy having careers and too busy to take care of their own kid, and their kid is of course too prdiouw to join the others at a local daycare!
And they have no shame in posting an ad like this.

Of course I am outraged.

[Anonymous]

Oh, and who is to say they will not be leaving the kid with nanny for 45 hours all the time?

[Anonymous]

I am w/you on this OP.

Parents who underpay the person to care for & love their child while they need to earn a living make me ill.

Ads like this are an insult to the entire Nanny profession!!

[Anonymous]

I agree with the OP. I think this post is very offensive. It shows how parents see us nannies.

[Anonymous]

I applied for this job! We are speaking on the phone tomorrow =)

Will let you know how it goes.

[Anonymous]

Oh my. Please so let us know how your phone interview goes.

[Anonymous]

I suppose with $1300 the nanny can secure a better corner on the street to sleep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the OP. I think this post is very offensive. It shows how parents see us nannies.

What is it with the nanny outrage? It doesn't show anything except how one family is trying to hire a nanny. You wouldn't accept those terms, nor will the next nanny. So the parents with either not be able to fill the position and will be forced to offer more or will wind up with someone with very little experience. No one gets any particular salary because they "deserve" it. They get the salary that the market will bear for the job. It's just a supply and demand issue. I often see jobs in my own field posted for 1/2 of what I make. I'm not outraged, I just move onto the next post.

[Anonymous]

You don't even know if they mean $400 net or gross. Chill. BTW, minimum wage is $7.25 in VA.

[Anonymous]

Those parents don't have the budget for a child care . They are some kind of jerks that think child care is not a professional job. So let them try and see how thing are. Poor child. with those parents.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps they just need a savvy, professional nanny to apply who ca n explain the benefits of a nanny share. That would be a great rate for their portion of a share, and the nanny might be willing to have it be a little less, for the weeks with fewer hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those parents don't have the budget for a child care . They are some kind of jerks that think child care is not a professional job. So let them try and see how thing are. Poor child. with those parents.

I'm just curious how much you can afford monthly for child care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the worst weeks they are paying $8.90/hour, which is above minimum wage. On the good weeks they are paying $13 an hour. Also above minimum wage. They are flouting overtime laws, but so do many.

You know perfectly well they won't find anyone decent with that offer, so it will be their burden to bear.

Why the outrage?

+1. The employers won't get anyone great but they know that already and probably are not expecting high quality nanny. People who are just so so nannies also need jobs. Not everyone who wants to nanny qualifies to get even "average" rates. So the market will sort it out. Why the outrage?