Nanny does very little work

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anyone who "sits on the couch for five hours" isn't a nanny. Simple.

I disagree .
I work as a live in nanny 7am to 9 pm mon- fri. The children are in school from 8:30-3:30. I get home from dropping them off around 9 and leave to pick then up at 3. I have 6 hrs I'm paid for where my only job is to do laundry and tidy up the dishes and any other child mess. The house I work in is spotless a housekeeper comes in 3 times a week. During those 6 hrs I sleep, go tanning, run my own errands and do my own thing. My mb might ask me to go to the post office or grocery shopping but that's about it. I'm a great nanny and I do my job.

It doesn't sound like you sit on the couch for five hours, and you do sound like a great nanny.

It doesn't sound like you're a great nanny. You sound pretty lazy if you're sleeping and tanning on your employer's dime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anyone who "sits on the couch for five hours" isn't a nanny. Simple.

I disagree .
I work as a live in nanny 7am to 9 pm mon- fri. The children are in school from 8:30-3:30. I get home from dropping them off around 9 and leave to pick then up at 3. I have 6 hrs I'm paid for where my only job is to do laundry and tidy up the dishes and any other child mess. The house I work in is spotless a housekeeper comes in 3 times a week. During those 6 hrs I sleep, go tanning, run my own errands and do my own thing. My mb might ask me to go to the post office or grocery shopping but that's about it. I'm a great nanny and I do my job.

It doesn't sound like you sit on the couch for five hours, and you do sound like a great nanny.

It doesn't sound like you're a great nanny. You sound pretty lazy if you're sleeping and tanning on your employer's dime.

What else should I be doing during that time that would make me a great nanny then? I work 14 hrs a day 5 days a week for $350 a week. That's 5 per hr or 10 per hr during the time I have the children unless its summer, a no school day or they are sick. When I took the job 2.5 years ago my boss made it clear while the children are in school I just need to keep the house tidy and do laundry along with occasional errands. My boss got me a gym membership and pays for my tanning membership each month.. They gave that to me as a bonus on my 1 year anniversary because I had never been late or missed a day of work. Still 2.5 years later I never have missed a day or been even 1 min late.

[Anonymous]

You only work 8hrs a day. If you are only earning $350/wk, you must be a live in. You have a pretty sweet deal, but there aren't any details in your post that suggest you are a great nanny. Your focus on your tanning and the gym don't show what a great nanny you are.

If you want us to believe you are a great nanny, you would lead with the wonderful things you do with your charges and how you exceed expectations. Yet, you are silent on those points. You also freely admit that the house is spotless due to the housekeeper, so apparently, you don't do much in the way of keeping the house tidy.

You don't sound like a great nanny. You sound like an average nanny with a sweet deal. No problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You only work 8hrs a day. If you are only earning $350/wk, you must be a live in. You have a pretty sweet deal, but there aren't any details in your post that suggest you are a great nanny. Your focus on your tanning and the gym don't show what a great nanny you are.

If you want us to believe you are a great nanny, you would lead with the wonderful things you do with your charges and how you exceed expectations. Yet, you are silent on those points. You also freely admit that the house is spotless due to the housekeeper, so apparently, you don't do much in the way of keeping the house tidy.

You don't sound like a great nanny. You sound like an average nanny with a sweet deal. No problem.

Stating the reasons I'm a great nanny is not what this is about. It's about the nannies that have down time during the day while children are in school. Those nannies are not " bad nannies " because they have a break in the middle of the day. Not every nanny job is cookie cutter and nannies who run errands or go tanning while their charges are in school should not be labeled as bad. That is up to their employers to determine. My employers bought me a gym and tanning membership for me to use during the day while the children are in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you can be a good nanny with 6 hours of nothing to do but go tanning. I mean..reallly...you go tanning while being paid?!?! I just couldn't feel good about myself getting away with that type of stuff.

It may require a bit of imagine to understand that some people are paid to accomplish certain tasks, rather than to be kept busy with busy work.

The more professional you are,
the easier it is to understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you can be a good nanny with 6 hours of nothing to do but go tanning. I mean..reallly...you go tanning while being paid?!?! I just couldn't feel good about myself getting away with that type of stuff.

It may require a bit of imagine to understand that some people are paid to accomplish certain tasks, rather than to be kept busy with busy work.

The more professional you are,
the easier it is to understand.

imagination

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you can be a good nanny with 6 hours of nothing to do but go tanning. I mean..reallly...you go tanning while being paid?!?! I just couldn't feel good about myself getting away with that type of stuff.

It may require a bit of imagine to understand that some people are paid to accomplish certain tasks, rather than to be kept busy with busy work.

The more professional you are,
the easier it is to understand.

Do you think a doctor can go home early if she wraps up her appointments early, or is she supposed to finish her clinic hours until the scheduled time?

Do you think a lawyer can go home at 2 pm if he finishes the brief he planned to do that day, or is he supposed to find other things to do until the end of the day?

You think a cop can clock out early if he finishes his patrol ahead of time?

If nannies were paid to accomplish "certain tasks", they wouldn't be paid per hour.

[Anonymous]

As we see on this thread, one size doesn't fit all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You only work 8hrs a day. If you are only earning $350/wk, you must be a live in. You have a pretty sweet deal, but there aren't any details in your post that suggest you are a great nanny. Your focus on your tanning and the gym don't show what a great nanny you are.

If you want us to believe you are a great nanny, you would lead with the wonderful things you do with your charges and how you exceed expectations. Yet, you are silent on those points. You also freely admit that the house is spotless due to the housekeeper, so apparently, you don't do much in the way of keeping the house tidy.

You don't sound like a great nanny. You sound like an average nanny with a sweet deal. No problem.

Stating the reasons I'm a great nanny is not what this is about. It's about the nannies that have down time during the day while children are in school. Those nannies are not " bad nannies " because they have a break in the middle of the day. Not every nanny job is cookie cutter and nannies who run errands or go tanning while their charges are in school should not be labeled as bad. That is up to their employers to determine. My employers bought me a gym and tanning membership for me to use during the day while the children are in school.

I wouldn't waste my time, explaining myself in this thread if I were you. As long as your employers, and the children you care for are pleased with what you bring to the table, everything else, is just an opinion, on a messageboard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. She is being paid $19 an hour. She started at $17 and we've given her a $1 raise every year. I just don't see how talking with her will change things. She might start folding laundry twice a week during her 5 hour break but this still wouldn't justify what she is being paid and how little she is doing. When DC#2 started preschool I did bring up extra tasks and she resisted. She offered to organize clothes and unload the dishwasher but this only needs to be done twice a year. She doesn't want to do the rest of the laundry or any housekeeping tasks. She makes a big deal of how busy their day is all the time.

Why would you give her a raise for bad performance? Sends the wrong message.

[Anonymous]

Maybe she thinks she's a nanny, not your housekeeper?
The horrors!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe she thinks she's a nanny, not your housekeeper?
The horrors!

So your theory is that the nanny who does literally nothing all day, does housework instead of focusing on the child in the afternoon and leaves the older child in aftercare late so that she doesn't have to care for both of them doesn't want to take on housekeeping tasks because she is TOO professional?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe she thinks she's a nanny, not your housekeeper?
The horrors!

Well she does a whopping three hours of nannying a day. For the rest of her day, she's a professional ass-on-couch sitter.

[Anonymous]

Kind of like some "fulltime" moms. Some kick ass. Some slouch on the job.
Maybe something in-between would be wise?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you can be a good nanny with 6 hours of nothing to do but go tanning. I mean..reallly...you go tanning while being paid?!?! I just couldn't feel good about myself getting away with that type of stuff.

It may require a bit of imagine to understand that some people are paid to accomplish certain tasks, rather than to be kept busy with busy work.

The more professional you are,
the easier it is to understand.

Do you think a doctor can go home early if she wraps up her appointments early, or is she supposed to finish her clinic hours until the scheduled time?

Do you think a lawyer can go home at 2 pm if he finishes the brief he planned to do that day, or is he supposed to find other things to do until the end of the day?

You think a cop can clock out early if he finishes his patrol ahead of time?

If nannies were paid to accomplish "certain tasks", they wouldn't be paid per hour.

Not sure about lawyers, but as a doctor, yes I go home early if I get through my patients. I don't punch a clock, I provide a service. I'm "employed" and my group management knows that if my schedule isn't full, I'm not going to sit here picking my nose at my desk for 8 hours. However, if something comes up, I also don't get overtime for returning to the office at 6pm or taking call or rounding on weekends on partners' patients or coming in to operate in the middle of the night.

I suppose if my Nanny offered me THAT kind of flexibility, I'd be ok with her napping "on the job" when the kids weren't around. Don't think I'll ever find a Nanny that fits that bill, though...