Childcare providers should reconsider their career path if being filmed at work is a problem
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Anonymous
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In preschools, daycare centers and private homes, cameras are both the present and the future. As a nanny and former preschool teacher, I actually like cameras - I want my employers to see how hard I work and how good I am at my job - and encourage their use. Cameras also protect the nanny in the home from false allegations.
However, if you don't like being filmed, please consider other careers. And to the one poster who is digging up old threads and discussing the legality of cameras - find another profession. Cameras aren't going anywhere. |
Anonymous
| Internet access cameras are getting cheaper by the day. Within the next few years, I suspect every family will have at least one or two cameras in their homes. |
Anonymous
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I know it is legal to video record in every single state, but recording audio needs both disclosure and written consent in thirteen states.
And if you secretly film your nanny and she finds out, she likely will feel betrayed and the relationship you have with her may be damaged beyond control. What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? |
Anonymous
I do not secretly film our nanny and she has given consent (as I said, she likes the cameras). I installed them primarily to see my children - I trust our nanny with their lives. No one was ever presumed guilty of anything. |
Anonymous
Our cameras are visible (no hidden filming) and our nanny agreed to them in her contract. We installed them because I heard horror stories about nannies on their damn phones constantly and I wanted to make sure that was not happening to my child. Trust but verify. I have cameras at my place of employment and so does DH. It is the way of the world now, PP. |
Anonymous
| I like pp's statement: Trust, but verify. I'm a nanny who likes cameras, because (ime) they are helpful to both parents and nanny. |
Anonymous
+1. Another nanny here. I am happy with the cameras, too. |
Anonymous
If I were your employer and you were watching your kids on company time, I would fire you in a heartbeat. I hire to do work for my businrss. If you want to watch your kids, stay home . |
Anonymous
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What exactly is the point of this thread? To get everyone all fired up again discussing the technicalities of working with/having cameras?
You said yourself, op, that someone is digging up old threads to talk about cameras. There’s already a discussion about this going on. The same shit is just gonna get rehashed over and over. |
Anonymous
Good think I own my own company and don't work for you. |
Anonymous
Happily, I do not work for you. 
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Anonymous
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Let’s just all agree that:
1. Cameras (with or without audio) should always be disclosed. Secretly filming someone is wrong. 2. Parents have every right to install cameras on their personal property for whatever reasons they choose. 3. Nannies are entitled to feel uncomfortable working with cameras. They will just have to seek employment elsewhere or learn to live with them. 4. There is nothing creepy about someone wanting to know what is going on in their own home. 5. Footage of nannies from cameras are not likely to end up on YouTube. If I’ve missed anything, please feel free to add. |
Anonymous
I just don't want the parents to hear when I pass gas  I am so tired of seeing post about cameras. You don't want to be recorded, then find another facility or family to work for. No one isn't going to take down there camera because you're uncomfortable- they will just find someone who is comfortable. I do believe that you should be informed about camera's and then, it is up to you to accept the position. Once you accept, you have given consent, so deal with it!
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Anonymous
Ah, yes, some valuable input 
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