Bottles

[Anonymous]

Hi nannies and parents quick question I wash the bottles that are used during my time with my charge. When I come in mom will have like 6-7 bottles in the sink from the previous night. I've washed them once to help as she was rushing that morning now I'm getting the impression that she thinks it's expected. I don't mind helping if needed here and there but I feel as though mom should be cleaning what she's using when I'm not here. She will put the other dishes away/wash them but leave all his bottles dirty in the sink. How should I handle this?

[Anonymous]

My employers do the same for two overnight bottles. It’s no big deal and not a hill I choose to die on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi nannies and parents quick question I wash the bottles that are used during my time with my charge. When I come in mom will have like 6-7 bottles in the sink from the previous night. I've washed them once to help as she was rushing that morning now I'm getting the impression that she thinks it's expected. I don't mind helping if needed here and there but I feel as though mom should be cleaning what she's using when I'm not here. She will put the other dishes away/wash them but leave all his bottles dirty in the sink. How should I handle this?

Your charge eats 6 to 7 bottles overnight?!

[Anonymous]

You’re a nanny and it’s your job to wash the bottles. If your MB wants to be lazy and not wash them, then I guess you have more bottles to wash.

- nanny

[Anonymous]

Mom here. We sometimes leave dishes in the sink overnight (a few randomly, certainly not the whole previous night's worth) and our nanny will stick them in the dishwasher if she gets to the sink before we do. On the same note, if she is rushed in the afternoon and doesn't get the dishes (kids' lunches, bottles, etc) done before she leaves, we stick them in the dishwasher.

Not a big deal either way. If I were you, I would just wash the bottles.

[Anonymous]

Typical in every job I’ve had. Bottles turn into the kids’ dinner dishes from the night before. So long as it is just children’s items I’m okay with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re a nanny and it’s your job to wash the bottles. If your MB wants to be lazy and not wash them, then I guess you have more bottles to wash.

- nanny

troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re a nanny and it’s your job to wash the bottles. If your MB wants to be lazy and not wash them, then I guess you have more bottles to wash.

- nanny

troll

[b]

Not a troll. I’ve been with my same family for 8 years, because washing a few extra bottles doesn’t bother me. But you do you, and continue to not pick and job hop.

[Anonymous]

*nit pick

[Anonymous]

6-7 bottles, no. 1 or 2, yes. I’ve never ended my shift without fulfilling my duties, so the kitchen is left the same way I arrived each day and we’ve never had an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My employers do the same for two overnight bottles. It’s no big deal and not a hill I choose to die on.

It's not creep and needs to be addressed as it will only get worse. Nip it in the bud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My employers do the same for two overnight bottles. It’s no big deal and not a hill I choose to die on.

It's not creep and needs to be addressed as it will only get worse. Nip it in the bud.

Job creep

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My employers do the same for two overnight bottles. It’s no big deal and not a hill I choose to die on.

It's not creep and needs to be addressed as it will only get worse. Nip it in the bud.

Job creep

Washing bottles from overnight is not at all job creep, it is part of the job! Dishes from the parents’ dinner would be job creep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My employers do the same for two overnight bottles. It’s no big deal and not a hill I choose to die on.

It's not creep and needs to be addressed as it will only get worse. Nip it in the bud.

Is it “job creep”? I don’t think it is. If the nanny is expected to do a child’s laundry, is that laundry confined to only what the child wears in the nanny’s presence?

Washing two overnight bottles is no big deal. And if the parents have always done it, there is no “creep” involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My employers do the same for two overnight bottles. It’s no big deal and not a hill I choose to die on.

It's not creep and needs to be addressed as it will only get worse. Nip it in the bud.

Is it “job creep”? I don’t think it is. If the nanny is expected to do a child’s laundry, is that laundry confined to only what the child wears in the nanny’s presence?

Washing two overnight bottles is no big deal. And if the parents have always done it, there is no “creep” involved.

This. I would feel some sympathy for parents they are up all night feeding 6/7 bottles but you do you