MBs! Please weigh in. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. My current MB poached me from another family, and brought that up as well. How underhanded I am.
The thing is I WAS looking only for fall jobs and was keeping their needs as forerunner in my search. Then this new family offered me a great position with the same level of pay I have now (I'm paid far over market)

How is $120 for 96hrs well over market? I'm calling serious BS.

It's NOT. Hence my point about how they only paid a pittance and why I feel no loyalty. My normal rate, 1dc, is 20$ an hour. Market rate here is 10-11$ an hour, 1dc. Roughly 13$ an hour for 2.

So we are to believe that parents are fighting over themselves to steal you away for almost twice the market rate?

I simply don't believe you and I think we've all been wasting our time here.

I second that.

[Anonymous]

I am a nanny OP and I think honestly you are 100% in the wrong here...Sorry, just my opinion.

As a nanny, when I accept a job, while I do not sign a written contact in stone saying I will stay until such and such a date, if I accepted a job and my bosses told me that it would be until a certain date and I said I was okay w/that, then it would be assumed that I would stay w/them until that date. I mean, it would be unfair for me to bail on them because then they would have to start all over and search for a nanny for the remaining few mos. right?

I mean legally you gave two weeks notice, so yeah, you did the proper thing legally.
But morally, you should have kept your word and stayed w/her and completed the job for the time frame that you agreed upon.

I would have been pissed off too if I were her.

[Anonymous]

Why don't we hear of any MBs 'sticking it out' (to honor the agreement) after it's inconvenient or "uncomfortable?"

Please explain this, MBs.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Why don't we hear of any MBs 'sticking it out' (to honor the agreement) after it's inconvenient or "uncomfortable?"

Please explain this, MBs.....

Because MBs only want what is in THEIR best interest. After all, the nanny really is just the help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Why don't we hear of any MBs 'sticking it out' (to honor the agreement) after it's inconvenient or "uncomfortable?"

Please explain this, MBs.....

It's a mom boss posted that her nanny was leaving in August and that the nanny was good enough that she did not fear for her child's safety but was not doing a very good job beyond that, most posters would in fact encourage her to stick it out until August. The situations in which MBs are advised to fire a nanny right away our situations in which the child is not getting adequate safe care.

[Anonymous]

True story, MB's act crazy if you quit with two weeks notice!

[Anonymous]

I would do the same OP. So many times I was offered great positions but out of loyalty stayed with current family and regretted it. You agreed as per your contract to give 2 weeks notice and did. Your mb will be fine getting a short term nanny. For her to get on you about initially agreeing to be employed with her when you were with another family is laughable and hypocritical. She sounds horrid. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:True story, MB's act crazy if you quit with two weeks notice!

Yes. It's called a MB toddler temper tantrum.

[Anonymous]

Why don't we hear of any MBs 'sticking it out' (to honor the agreement) after it's inconvenient or "uncomfortable?"

Please explain this, MBs.....

What exactly do you mean by this question? Describe an uncomfortable situation you think an MB should 'stick it out' for.

[Anonymous]

You are probably a great nanny but definitely lacking in integrity. I also would never hire you. I have always given my nannies several months notice of a job ending and none of them took advantage of our consideration like you did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you were wrong to accept a job a quarter of a year before your end-date. I think you were wrong to allow yourself to be poached from your old employer. I think your MB was wrong to yell at you - she could have told you without yelling how frustrated and disappointed she was in you for leaving them a quarter of a year early.

Another nut job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are probably a great nanny but definitely lacking in integrity. I also would never hire you. I have always given my nannies several months notice of a job ending and none of them took advantage of our consideration like you did.

Another entitled MB who thinks she owns her nanny's employment choices.
The end game is nanny is allowed to find a new job at any time in the course of her job with you.

[Anonymous]

Wow, yet another thread of mean nannies bashing MBs and polite MBs trying to be reasonable while actually answering OP's question.

Further proof that the troublemakers on this forum are the nannies. Not all of them, but many of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, yet another thread of mean nannies bashing MBs and polite MBs trying to be reasonable while actually answering OP's question.

Further proof that the troublemakers on this forum are the nannies. Not all of them, but many of them.

it's sad. OP asked specifically for MB opinions and those that do provide honest answers are bashed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, yet another thread of mean nannies bashing MBs and polite MBs trying to be reasonable while actually answering OP's question.

Further proof that the troublemakers on this forum are the nannies. Not all of them, but many of them.

it's sad. OP asked specifically for MB opinions and those that do provide honest answers are bashed.

Amen to both of you.