What's the most ridiculous thing you're been reprimanded for?

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Anonymous wrote:One time I got in trouble for wearing shorts (they weren't at all revealing) and had to wear leggings to work the whole summer. Same lady told me not to bring lunch and I could eat whatever I liked from the kitchen. I didn't eat much and mostly still brought my lunch well one day I guess she had a bad day and i occasionally had a peanut butter sandwich, until she said 'do NOT eat the organic peanut butter that is for my CHILDREN NOT YOU. It is too expensive to keep buying it'
Anyway I quit haha

Come on now, that is a duh. Why would you think the organic stuff is for you. Chips and crap like that you may help yourself too (as long as it's a small serving) but not their good things.

Was that really the first time you had ever been offered food at someones home??

You're reaching. PP clearly said she was told not to bring lunch. Any reasonable person would assume that freed up peanut butter sandwiches for consumption; we aren't talking steaks or $9 frozen meals here.

Sounds like you haven't bought a jar of organic peanut butter and a loaf of organic bread before.

[Anonymous]

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Reprimanding house hold employees for silly things is one way harried working moms can feel like they have some small control over their homes and children. It's hard psychologically to leave these things in someone else's hands fifty hours a week and one way for MBs to feel as if they are managing things is to give orders and sometimes find fault with seemingly trivial matters.


I don't know about this, the MB I work for seems to love hearing about something new I did with the kids while she was at work or a new way I am doing things that makes X activity faster/better/easier. I don't think she has ever reprimanded me for anything. She has asked me to do certain things for specific events (i.e. guests coming into town or a dinner party at the house) but I have never been told "you are doing this wrong please do it this way."

My guess is if you are being reprimanded you deserved it for messing up.
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Or, you happen to have a secure, well balanced MB who knows how treat her employer with respect and dignity.; is capable of engaging in healthy relationships. Verses the MB who is torn with guilt because she is not with her child during the work week. And of course, there really is the MB who is mentally and/or emotionally (dys)functional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One time I got in trouble for wearing shorts (they weren't at all revealing) and had to wear leggings to work the whole summer. Same lady told me not to bring lunch and I could eat whatever I liked from the kitchen. I didn't eat much and mostly still brought my lunch well one day I guess she had a bad day and i occasionally had a peanut butter sandwich, until she said 'do NOT eat the organic peanut butter that is for my CHILDREN NOT YOU. It is too expensive to keep buying it'
Anyway I quit haha

Come on now, that is a duh. Why would you think the organic stuff is for you. Chips and crap like that you may help yourself too (as long as it's a small serving) but not their good things.

Was that really the first time you had ever been offered food at someones home??

You're reaching. PP clearly said she was told not to bring lunch. Any reasonable person would assume that freed up peanut butter sandwiches for consumption; we aren't talking steaks or $9 frozen meals here.

Sounds like you haven't bought a jar of organic peanut butter and a loaf of organic bread before.

I buy almost exclusively organic ($$$$$) but that's beside the point.

If you invite someone to eat from your kitchen - EAT, not snack - and you stock organic bread and peanut butter as a matter of course, that's what you've invited them to eat. I don't invite someone over for dinner and then tell them to stick to the veggies, don't they know these steaks were expensive? That's insane. I invited them to eat what I have, it's not their fault what I have happens to be expensive. It's not like this nanny pushed some Wonderbread aside and sliced into the fresh bakery loaf or something.

She was invited to eat. She ate the most basic of essential foods. If the family decides to buy expensive essential items (as I do) then they must expect those will get eaten. What if she was reprimanded for eating an organic apple? Those are expensive. Or how about some sliced organic pineapple? That's even MORE expensive. But they're basic fruit sides, right?

I really think you're reaching. Unless the nanny went into the "special" pantry or the outdoor freezer or something odd, she's been told to make lunch there. So, she should be able to make lunch. Honestly I'd rather you eat my PB than make a turkey sandwich - that stuff is $9 for eight slices!! - but either way, it's on me because I invited you to eat and same goes for families who invite their nannies to make lunch at work.

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Mb kept commenting that ds' clothes didn't match.

I would look at the color combo and be baffled, colors seemed appropriately matched to me.

One day she asks me to go buy an outfit for a friend's new baby, she specifies Carter's and a price range.... While shopping, it dawns on me, she wants the pants matched with the onesie that it came with, I'd been treating everything as separates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One time I got in trouble for wearing shorts (they weren't at all revealing) and had to wear leggings to work the whole summer. Same lady told me not to bring lunch and I could eat whatever I liked from the kitchen. I didn't eat much and mostly still brought my lunch well one day I guess she had a bad day and i occasionally had a peanut butter sandwich, until she said 'do NOT eat the organic peanut butter that is for my CHILDREN NOT YOU. It is too expensive to keep buying it'
Anyway I quit haha

Come on now, that is a duh. Why would you think the organic stuff is for you. Chips and crap like that you may help yourself too (as long as it's a small serving) but not their good things.

Was that really the first time you had ever been offered food at someones home??

You're reaching. PP clearly said she was told not to bring lunch. Any reasonable person would assume that freed up peanut butter sandwiches for consumption; we aren't talking steaks or $9 frozen meals here.

Sounds like you haven't bought a jar of organic peanut butter and a loaf of organic bread before.

I buy almost exclusively organic ($$$$$) but that's beside the point.

If you invite someone to eat from your kitchen - EAT, not snack - and you stock organic bread and peanut butter as a matter of course, that's what you've invited them to eat. I don't invite someone over for dinner and then tell them to stick to the veggies, don't they know these steaks were expensive? That's insane. I invited them to eat what I have, it's not their fault what I have happens to be expensive. It's not like this nanny pushed some Wonderbread aside and sliced into the fresh bakery loaf or something.

She was invited to eat. She ate the most basic of essential foods. If the family decides to buy expensive essential items (as I do) then they must expect those will get eaten. What if she was reprimanded for eating an organic apple? Those are expensive. Or how about some sliced organic pineapple? That's even MORE expensive. But they're basic fruit sides, right?

I really think you're reaching. Unless the nanny went into the "special" pantry or the outdoor freezer or something odd, she's been told to make lunch there. So, she should be able to make lunch. Honestly I'd rather you eat my PB than make a turkey sandwich - that stuff is $9 for eight slices!! - but either way, it's on me because I invited you to eat and same goes for families who invite their nannies to make lunch at work.

Well when I offer guests to eat, excluding me having just cooked a meal of course, I mean a small snack like some oreos or something, not make yourself a prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich on my artisan bread!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One time I got in trouble for wearing shorts (they weren't at all revealing) and had to wear leggings to work the whole summer. Same lady told me not to bring lunch and I could eat whatever I liked from the kitchen. I didn't eat much and mostly still brought my lunch well one day I guess she had a bad day and i occasionally had a peanut butter sandwich, until she said 'do NOT eat the organic peanut butter that is for my CHILDREN NOT YOU. It is too expensive to keep buying it'
Anyway I quit haha

Come on now, that is a duh. Why would you think the organic stuff is for you. Chips and crap like that you may help yourself too (as long as it's a small serving) but not their good things.

Was that really the first time you had ever been offered food at someones home??

You're reaching. PP clearly said she was told not to bring lunch. Any reasonable person would assume that freed up peanut butter sandwiches for consumption; we aren't talking steaks or $9 frozen meals here.

Sounds like you haven't bought a jar of organic peanut butter and a loaf of organic bread before.

I buy almost exclusively organic ($$$$$) but that's beside the point.

If you invite someone to eat from your kitchen - EAT, not snack - and you stock organic bread and peanut butter as a matter of course, that's what you've invited them to eat. I don't invite someone over for dinner and then tell them to stick to the veggies, don't they know these steaks were expensive? That's insane. I invited them to eat what I have, it's not their fault what I have happens to be expensive. It's not like this nanny pushed some Wonderbread aside and sliced into the fresh bakery loaf or something.

She was invited to eat. She ate the most basic of essential foods. If the family decides to buy expensive essential items (as I do) then they must expect those will get eaten. What if she was reprimanded for eating an organic apple? Those are expensive. Or how about some sliced organic pineapple? That's even MORE expensive. But they're basic fruit sides, right?

I really think you're reaching. Unless the nanny went into the "special" pantry or the outdoor freezer or something odd, she's been told to make lunch there. So, she should be able to make lunch. Honestly I'd rather you eat my PB than make a turkey sandwich - that stuff is $9 for eight slices!! - but either way, it's on me because I invited you to eat and same goes for families who invite their nannies to make lunch at work.

Well when I offer guests to eat, excluding me having just cooked a meal of course, I mean a small snack like some oreos or something, not make yourself a prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich on my artisan bread!

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Well when I offer guests to eat, excluding me having just cooked a meal of course, I mean a small snack like some oreos or something, not make yourself a prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich on my artisan bread!

Do you also tell them they may not bring their own lunch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Well when I offer guests to eat, excluding me having just cooked a meal of course, I mean a small snack like some oreos or something, not make yourself a prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich on my artisan bread!

Do you also tell them they may not bring their own lunch?

I'd rather you not bring lunch to my house, it's not your personal cafeteria... eat before and after your shift like a normal person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Well when I offer guests to eat, excluding me having just cooked a meal of course, I mean a small snack like some oreos or something, not make yourself a prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich on my artisan bread!

Do you also tell them they may not bring their own lunch?

I'd rather you not bring lunch to my house, it's not your personal cafeteria... eat before and after your shift like a normal person.

Are you the one who also doesn't want nanny to have a BM i your toilet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Well when I offer guests to eat, excluding me having just cooked a meal of course, I mean a small snack like some oreos or something, not make yourself a prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich on my artisan bread!

Do you also tell them they may not bring their own lunch?

I'd rather you not bring lunch to my house, it's not your personal cafeteria... eat before and after your shift like a normal person.

Your weird philosophy is against the law unless you work fewer than five hours at a stretch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Well when I offer guests to eat, excluding me having just cooked a meal of course, I mean a small snack like some oreos or something, not make yourself a prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich on my artisan bread!

Do you also tell them they may not bring their own lunch?

I'd rather you not bring lunch to my house, it's not your personal cafeteria... eat before and after your shift like a normal person.

I am a normal person and I eat lunch during my "shift" at work. It is called "my lunch hour". Since my nanny cannot leave to go out for her lunch hour, she eats at work (which is my house).

You're a freak, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Well when I offer guests to eat, excluding me having just cooked a meal of course, I mean a small snack like some oreos or something, not make yourself a prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich on my artisan bread!

Do you also tell them they may not bring their own lunch?

I'd rather you not bring lunch to my house, it's not your personal cafeteria... eat before and after your shift like a normal person.

You're the one a nanny who does what she pleases.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Well when I offer guests to eat, excluding me having just cooked a meal of course, I mean a small snack like some oreos or something, not make yourself a prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich on my artisan bread!

Do you also tell them they may not bring their own lunch?

I'd rather you not bring lunch to my house, it's not your personal cafeteria... eat before and after your shift like a normal person.

Are you the one who also doesn't want nanny to have a BM i your toilet?

Who watches the baby while nanny BMs for 25 minutes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Well when I offer guests to eat, excluding me having just cooked a meal of course, I mean a small snack like some oreos or something, not make yourself a prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich on my artisan bread!

Do you also tell them they may not bring their own lunch?

I'd rather you not bring lunch to my house, it's not your personal cafeteria... eat before and after your shift like a normal person.

Are you the one who also doesn't want nanny to have a BM i your toilet?

Who watches the baby while nanny BMs for 25 minutes?

If you crap for 25 minutes, you should see a doctor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Well when I offer guests to eat, excluding me having just cooked a meal of course, I mean a small snack like some oreos or something, not make yourself a prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich on my artisan bread!

Do you also tell them they may not bring their own lunch?

I'd rather you not bring lunch to my house, it's not your personal cafeteria... eat before and after your shift like a normal person.

Are you the one who also doesn't want nanny to have a BM i your toilet?

Who watches the baby while nanny BMs for 25 minutes?

It takes me about two minutes to drop the kids off in the pool. Don't oark the car until you've arrived at your destination.