Grandma saying for weeks/months, Ring cameras in every room of the house

[Anonymous]

Just started this job a few weeks ago and I really like the family…
However, two issues that are really starting to annoy me
1.) they never told me in the interview that the grandmother would be visiting from overseas for weeks or even months (I’m assuming all summer long). She’s very nice and doesn’t bother me, but she doesn’t speak English and it’s just a little annoying that she’s around me all day long Watching me play with the kids

2.) I’m starting to get creeped out with all the Ring cameras WITH motion sensors, each time I enter a different room, the cameras light up and start recording. there’s one even next to the washing machine, right in my face. At first it didn’t bother me, but now I’m starting to realize that the parents know where in the house I am at any given moment, because of those motion sensors. I guess in public places I don’t care, but being in someone else’s house with their children all day, it’s very different

What are your experiences with nanny cams? How do you deal with all the cameras all day long?

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Took a job like this and lasted 3 days. Family was Indian and pretty much didn’t disclose that her parents would come for 6 months and his parents the other 6. Cameras everywhere except for in the bathroom. Although it was one in the kitchen right next to the bathroom I was to use so they could time how long I was in the restroom. Grandparents would make 3 large meals a day. After they ate the would take the baby for a few minutes “to give me a break” which really meant go to the kitchen and clean up their mess. After that I can take the baby back while they sat and watched me. Wasn’t allowed to go anywhere with the baby unless grandma wanted to go on a walk. I could only sit on the patio which had a camera as well. I quickly figured out the grandparents were there to “watch me” along with mom constantly watching the camera at work she was an ER doctor-how she found time to do that while working with patients was beyond me. The cameras were there to catch me doing anything incase grandma wasn’t hovered around which 98%time she was.

[Anonymous]

I’d leave.

[Anonymous]

I just turned down a job a month ago. I had been told the grandparents were visiting when I talked to the agency, but during the interview, it came out that one grandparent would be there for 4 months, the next grandparent couple for 4 months, and the grandparent/step-grandparent couple for four months. I asked what their involvement would be and was told it would be variabke bc and the child wouldn’t have a consistent daily schedule. Nope, I’m not interested. I could deal with accustoming the children to a new grandparent situation every four months, but I’m not dealing with a variable schedule for the child as well.

[Anonymous]

Run and don't look back.

[Anonymous]

Yikes!
These Nanny jobs sound like living nightmares to me!!

I don’t get why if the Grandparents are staying there - then why don’t they watch their Grandkids??!
I mean after all…..if they have the time to watch YOU!!
Sheesh.

That would piss me off if they never told me about Grandparents being around prior to hire.
I would feel kind of like they tried to pull the wool over my eyes!

And I HATE working around multiple cameras in someone’s house >> most especially when I don’t know them very well.
It’s not the same as being filmed in a public place I agree.

You are in the privacy of someone else’s home + the cameras are directly focused on watching YOU!!

I honestly would not stay at this job OP.

Yes, in the beginning trust does need to be established however your employers are definitely not going about it in an efficient way.

I don’t get why they go through the trouble & expense of hiring a Nanny, then they have them watched like criminals.
They need to stay home w/their children or send them into -> daycare w/cameras on monitors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Run and don't look back.

+1

This.

[Anonymous]

Who puts a Ring camera in a laundry room?! Weird. I’d probably quit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yikes!
These Nanny jobs sound like living nightmares to me!!

I don’t get why if the Grandparents are staying there - then why don’t they watch their Grandkids??!
I mean after all…..if they have the time to watch YOU!!
Sheesh.

That would piss me off if they never told me about Grandparents being around prior to hire.
I would feel kind of like they tried to pull the wool over my eyes!

And I HATE working around multiple cameras in someone’s house >> most especially when I don’t know them very well.
It’s not the same as being filmed in a public place I agree.

You are in the privacy of someone else’s home + the cameras are directly focused on watching YOU!!

I honestly would not stay at this job OP.

Yes, in the beginning trust does need to be established however your employers are definitely not going about it in an efficient way.

I don’t get why they go through the trouble & expense of hiring a Nanny, then they have them watched like criminals.
They need to stay home w/their children or send them into -> daycare w/cameras on monitors.

+100000x

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yikes!
These Nanny jobs sound like living nightmares to me!!

I don’t get why if the Grandparents are staying there - then why don’t they watch their Grandkids??!
I mean after all…..if they have the time to watch YOU!!
Sheesh.

That would piss me off if they never told me about Grandparents being around prior to hire.
I would feel kind of like they tried to pull the wool over my eyes!

And I HATE working around multiple cameras in someone’s house >> most especially when I don’t know them very well.
It’s not the same as being filmed in a public place I agree.

You are in the privacy of someone else’s home + the cameras are directly focused on watching YOU!!

I honestly would not stay at this job OP.

Yes, in the beginning trust does need to be established however your employers are definitely not going about it in an efficient way.

I don’t get why they go through the trouble & expense of hiring a Nanny, then they have them watched like criminals.
They need to stay home w/their children or send them into -> daycare w/cameras on monitors.

+100000x

They don’t want to stay home nor raise their children. They also don’t want to do daycare as they can’t hover and see every second and dictate and micromanage plus they believe their child should have individual attention.

[Anonymous]

From the perspective of a nanny employer, I am quite surprised at these responses. Our children are teenagers, and we have worked with the same nannies since our first was born. She is extraordinary and we are very grateful to be working with her.

From the employer perspective, I work in an office in which, there are cameras that track and record my location. I also have gone through of time where I work mostly alone, and then periods of time where, expectedly or unexpectedly, there are others in my close environment. I just simply do my job. If someone is watching me, I just don’t care. If someone is making a different choice as to how they run their part of the business, not my business I don’t care. I just do my job. I feel like a nanny. Office is their employers home. in the workplace, other than private locations, such as restrooms, employers now generally have cameras. Also, we all have situations in which we wish our bosses, or people who are unexpectedly in our spaces, wouldn’t be there. But I really don’t understand why nannies seem to think that, They are exempt from cameras and others in the room, while that is quite common in any other workplace. I’m guessing maybe nannies don’t realize this if they haven’t had other work experience?

I am a relatively senior executive in my office. I am also aware that , my badge tracks my general whereabouts and that cameras film my location to a large extent. That’s just the world. And that is where many employers are coming from. You may be thinking that, because you are in a person’s home as your place of work that you should expect more privacy and less oversight. I would suggest the contract, that if you are in the private space of your employers, that they would expect greater visibility into what happens in their home.

We have a lot of people in outside of our house, our children’s nanny, people working on the house, lots of visitors and also caregivers for my disabled father. From my view, it is not at all unreasonable to want to have a view a public basis. I don’t generally look at them, and I am very clear with everyone that cameras exist, I don’t see it as any different from the expectations and other workplaces.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Took a job like this and lasted 3 days. Family was Indian and pretty much didn’t disclose that her parents would come for 6 months and his parents the other 6. Cameras everywhere except for in the bathroom. Although it was one in the kitchen right next to the bathroom I was to use so they could time how long I was in the restroom. Grandparents would make 3 large meals a day. After they ate the would take the baby for a few minutes “to give me a break” which really meant go to the kitchen and clean up their mess. After that I can take the baby back while they sat and watched me. Wasn’t allowed to go anywhere with the baby unless grandma wanted to go on a walk. I could only sit on the patio which had a camera as well. I quickly figured out the grandparents were there to “watch me” along with mom constantly watching the camera at work she was an ER doctor-how she found time to do that while working with patients was beyond me. The cameras were there to catch me doing anything incase grandma wasn’t hovered around which 98%time she was.

Never work with Indian families. They are the worst and rarely will they treat you well.

[Anonymous]

Op please get out and do NOT clean up after meals. You aren’t a kitchen maid. The grandparents are so lazy. This sh@@ makes me so mad. They can take their culture back home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the perspective of a nanny employer, I am quite surprised at these responses. Our children are teenagers, and we have worked with the same nannies since our first was born. She is extraordinary and we are very grateful to be working with her.

From the employer perspective, I work in an office in which, there are cameras that track and record my location. I also have gone through of time where I work mostly alone, and then periods of time where, expectedly or unexpectedly, there are others in my close environment. I just simply do my job. If someone is watching me, I just don’t care. If someone is making a different choice as to how they run their part of the business, not my business I don’t care. I just do my job. I feel like a nanny. Office is their employers home. in the workplace, other than private locations, such as restrooms, employers now generally have cameras. Also, we all have situations in which we wish our bosses, or people who are unexpectedly in our spaces, wouldn’t be there. But I really don’t understand why nannies seem to think that, They are exempt from cameras and others in the room, while that is quite common in any other workplace. I’m guessing maybe nannies don’t realize this if they haven’t had other work experience?

I am a relatively senior executive in my office. I am also aware that , my badge tracks my general whereabouts and that cameras film my location to a large extent. That’s just the world. And that is where many employers are coming from. You may be thinking that, because you are in a person’s home as your place of work that you should expect more privacy and less oversight. I would suggest the contract, that if you are in the private space of your employers, that they would expect greater visibility into what happens in their home.

We have a lot of people in outside of our house, our children’s nanny, people working on the house, lots of visitors and also caregivers for my disabled father. From my view, it is not at all unreasonable to want to have a view a public basis. I don’t generally look at them, and I am very clear with everyone that cameras exist, I don’t see it as any different from the expectations and other workplaces.

We don’t work in offices. We have choices. You aren’t the only person in your office and your work is presumably harder to critique with a ring camera.

[Anonymous]

So two nannies have been on this forum complaining about two different Indian families this week. Wow. I don’t know why anyone takes these jobs.