Nanny cooking for herself

[Anonymous]

I think there was a similar thread a while back but I couldn’t find it. Our new nanny ( approx a month , we have a new born ) has started cooking Her lunch at our house a few days a week. She bring her groceries in and does full scale cooking from scratch ( chopping veggies etc) with multiple pots and pans going. She then stores the leftovers in our fridge and I saw her taking a Tupperware Home in the evening presumably for her dinner. She does not cook for our family. This obviously takes a lot of time and I feel she should be bringing a packed lunch. The baby sleeps a lot but Am I being taken advantage? Has anyone dealt with this?

[Anonymous]

OMG. Should she be scrubbing your toilets instead?
Some of you are insufferable.

[Anonymous]

So she's using electricity and there's wear and tear on your pots and pans and silverware. As long as she's cleaning up after herself and not letting an infant cry while she cooks, it's okay.

I would not like her to be taking home my Tupperware to her house, but other than that it's fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So she's using electricity and there's wear and tear on your pots and pans and silverware. As long as she's cleaning up after herself and not letting an infant cry while she cooks, it's okay.

I would not like her to be taking home my Tupperware to her house, but other than that it's fine.

How about if she returns it the next morning? Or would it get contaminated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So she's using electricity and there's wear and tear on your pots and pans and silverware. As long as she's cleaning up after herself and not letting an infant cry while she cooks, it's okay.

I would not like her to be taking home my Tupperware to her house, but other than that it's fine.

+1. And the only reason I'd care about the tupperware is because we use ours to store dinner leftovers, and I'd be frustrated to go get it and not have any available. But that problem is an easy one to solve. Otherwise this is NBD assuming the kitchen is left clean. And nannies who like to cook once your child is old enough to eat are great to have!

[Anonymous]

I am a former nanny and find this inappropriate and unprofessional. Heating up food, making tea and coffee is fine but not cooking from scratched....should be done on her own time. Plus people tolerate certain spices, food smell and I wouldn’t want someone’s strange food smell lingering in my home, especially fish. Talk to her nicely about if and if she won’t stop look for another nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a former nanny and find this inappropriate and unprofessional. Heating up food, making tea and coffee is fine but not cooking from scratched....should be done on her own time. Plus people tolerate certain spices, food smell and I wouldn’t want someone’s strange food smell lingering in my home, especially fish. Talk to her nicely about if and if she won’t stop look for another nanny.

Fire your kid's nanny because she "might" leave a lingering smell in the kitchen?

One can hope you're not a parent.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't care right now while your baby is sleeping a lot. Some nannies read, watch tv, take a class ...

But if this has become her routine (basically do her dinner prep during the workday at your house), and she is still doing it when your child is older, I might have a problem with it. It just depends on how she works it into the day. I kind of feel like if she has time to do full-scale cooking for herself, maybe she does need something else to do, like cooking for you guys.

It's on the border of inappropriate, because it basically advertises that she has a lot of nothing to do all day long, presumably at a high rate of pay. That doesn't generally endear you to your employers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't care right now while your baby is sleeping a lot. Some nannies read, watch tv, take a class ...

But if this has become her routine (basically do her dinner prep during the workday at your house), and she is still doing it when your child is older, I might have a problem with it. It just depends on how she works it into the day. I kind of feel like if she has time to do full-scale cooking for herself, maybe she does need something else to do, like cooking for you guys.

It's on the border of inappropriate, because it basically advertises that she has a lot of nothing to do all day long, presumably at a high rate of pay. That doesn't generally endear you to your employers.

Why would you make the asinine presumption of a high pay rate? Ninety-nine percent of you can only afford average (or below average) wages for your average babysitters.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t mind if she was also going to cook for the kid once old enough. My kid isn’t going to learn cooking from me so I want her to learn it somewhere.

[Anonymous]

She should do her meal prep at her house and bring a Tupperware contain for lunch. Not the other way around. I would tell her that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't care right now while your baby is sleeping a lot. Some nannies read, watch tv, take a class ...

But if this has become her routine (basically do her dinner prep during the workday at your house), and she is still doing it when your child is older, I might have a problem with it. It just depends on how she works it into the day. I kind of feel like if she has time to do full-scale cooking for herself, maybe she does need something else to do, like cooking for you guys.

It's on the border of inappropriate, because it basically advertises that she has a lot of nothing to do all day long, presumably at a high rate of pay. That doesn't generally endear you to your employers.

Why would you make the asinine presumption of a high pay rate? Ninety-nine percent of you can only afford average (or below average) wages for your average babysitters.

Anything over the $12/hr minimum wage in this area is a high rate of pay for doing nothing. You really can get a "good enough" babysitter to sit in your house and websurf while your baby sleeps. That's why if you come with lots of credentials and such, making it clear that you aren't using them a lot of the time is probably not the best plan.

[Anonymous]

Your nanny is not American, is she?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't care right now while your baby is sleeping a lot. Some nannies read, watch tv, take a class ...

But if this has become her routine (basically do her dinner prep during the workday at your house), and she is still doing it when your child is older, I might have a problem with it. It just depends on how she works it into the day. I kind of feel like if she has time to do full-scale cooking for herself, maybe she does need something else to do, like cooking for you guys.

It's on the border of inappropriate, because it basically advertises that she has a lot of nothing to do all day long, presumably at a high rate of pay. That doesn't generally endear you to your employers.

Why would you make the asinine presumption of a high pay rate? Ninety-nine percent of you can only afford average (or below average) wages for your average babysitters.

Anything over the $12/hr minimum wage in this area is a high rate of pay for doing nothing. You really can get a "good enough" babysitter to sit in your house and websurf while your baby sleeps. That's why if you come with lots of credentials and such, making it clear that you aren't using them a lot of the time is probably not the best plan.

I simply have no words for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't care right now while your baby is sleeping a lot. Some nannies read, watch tv, take a class ...

But if this has become her routine (basically do her dinner prep during the workday at your house), and she is still doing it when your child is older, I might have a problem with it. It just depends on how she works it into the day. I kind of feel like if she has time to do full-scale cooking for herself, maybe she does need something else to do, like cooking for you guys.

It's on the border of inappropriate, because it basically advertises that she has a lot of nothing to do all day long, presumably at a high rate of pay. That doesn't generally endear you to your employers.

Why would you make the asinine presumption of a high pay rate? Ninety-nine percent of you can only afford average (or below average) wages for your average babysitters.

Anything over the $12/hr minimum wage in this area is a high rate of pay for doing nothing. You really can get a "good enough" babysitter to sit in your house and websurf while your baby sleeps. That's why if you come with lots of credentials and such, making it clear that you aren't using them a lot of the time is probably not the best plan.

Smh...and sadly this is the logic used to justify paying a nanny so little. And if someone called you cheap you would be oh so offended.