You can not be a nanny employer if you need to ask:

[Anonymous]

...otherwise you'll have to be reported. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Dc nanny

I work 64 hrs a week, I make $52/hr.

Id like to think I'm making a professional salary.

Finally! A living wage.

Good for her. Glad no one is calling her a troll.

[Anonymous]

Do I have to give the nanny paid sick leave? In some states it has been legally mandated. So the answer is yes.

If it's almost the end of her first year and she hasn't been sick, can she used the sick days even if she not really sick?

You have two options:

1. You can offer in advance, to payout unused sick days.

OR

2. You can try to force her to go get you a doctor's note to prove that the doctor agrees that nanny needs a day off.

However, if you choose option 2, you run the risk of the doctor feeling so sorry for the nanny, that the nanny gets a much better job offer from the doctor's friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do I have to give the nanny paid sick leave? In some states it has been legally mandated. So the answer is yes.

If it's almost the end of her first year and she hasn't been sick, can she used the sick days even if she not really sick?

You have two options:

1. You can offer in advance, to payout unused sick days.

OR

2. You can try to force her to go get you a doctor's note to prove that the doctor agrees that nanny needs a day off.

However, if you choose option 2, you run the risk of the doctor feeling so sorry for the nanny, that the nanny gets a much better job offer from the doctor's friends.

*she's

[Anonymous]

Do I have to give the nanny paid sick leave? In some states it has been legally mandated. So the answer is yes.

If it's almost the end of her first year and she hasn't been sick, can she used the sick days even if she not really sick?

You have two options:

1. You can offer in advance, to payout unused sick days.

OR

2. You can try to force her to go get you a doctor's note to prove that the doctor agrees that nanny needs a day off.

However, if you choose option 2, you run the risk of the doctor feeling so sorry for the nanny, that the nanny gets a much better job offer from the doctor's friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP is confused, lol. MBs are the employers and should definitely require references. Nannies are employees and it isn't common or expected for MBs to provide references. They can choose to, and it might be important if there is a nanny they really want to employ, but considering how easy it is to find competent nannies, it isn't necessary. At all.

Ego issues? Why should you and your husband be trusted? Because you made a baby and you want a nanny? If you have no skeletons in your closet, why not share a couple of refs?

Because I have 20 people asking me for a job, and only one is asking me for references? Possibly because I am offering to pay you, and not the other way around?

If your 20 applicants are anything like what I see most of you leaving your kids with, good luck to you. You get what you pay for, but let's keep that our little secret. When you get yourself a sitter, you deserve to have high quality for cheap. Why? Just because you're so extra special, anyone should feel honored to wipe your big a**.
Your standards are low. Maybe take some courses in childhood development and see if your warm body person will make do, without consequences down the road. Good luck with that.
Hint: That "one" applicant who is asking you for references is the one who has her choice of job offers. "How can that be?", you ask. She's the best one, obviously. Everyone wants her, everyone with a brain, that is.

This poster is so very impressed with herself and so very quick to put down every MB who pays market rates and every nanny who works for them. But the thing is, I would be mortified beyond belief if my children ever showed any sign of acting or thinking or speaking like this crass, obnoxious nanny. Competent nannies are not a rare commodity. To me, the real test of quality is the nanny's judgment, personality, social skills, all of which add up to the capacity to be a good role model for my kids. This nanny falls so far below the bar it would be laughable except for the sad fact that she is probably poisoning some poor MB's child with her anger right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP is confused, lol. MBs are the employers and should definitely require references. Nannies are employees and it isn't common or expected for MBs to provide references. They can choose to, and it might be important if there is a nanny they really want to employ, but considering how easy it is to find competent nannies, it isn't necessary. At all.

Ego issues? Why should you and your husband be trusted? Because you made a baby and you want a nanny? If you have no skeletons in your closet, why not share a couple of refs?

Because I have 20 people asking me for a job, and only one is asking me for references? Possibly because I am offering to pay you, and not the other way around?

If your 20 applicants are anything like what I see most of you leaving your kids with, good luck to you. You get what you pay for, but let's keep that our little secret. When you get yourself a sitter, you deserve to have high quality for cheap. Why? Just because you're so extra special, anyone should feel honored to wipe your big a**.
Your standards are low. Maybe take some courses in childhood development and see if your warm body person will make do, without consequences down the road. Good luck with that.
Hint: That "one" applicant who is asking you for references is the one who has her choice of job offers. "How can that be?", you ask. She's the best one, obviously. Everyone wants her, everyone with a brain, that is.

This poster is so very impressed with herself and so very quick to put down every MB who pays market rates and every nanny who works for them. But the thing is, I would be mortified beyond belief if my children ever showed any sign of acting or thinking or speaking like this crass, obnoxious nanny. Competent nannies are not a rare commodity. To me, the real test of quality is the nanny's judgment, personality, social skills, all of which add up to the capacity to be a good role model for my kids. This nanny falls so far below the bar it would be laughable except for the sad fact that she is probably poisoning some poor MB's child with her anger right now.

I am the person who recognizes and compliments excellence in employer / employee relations. Some people may not like that. So sorry.

[Anonymous]

Can I take advantage of my nanny, and still get good job performance? No, not for long. Please don't do that to your own child. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Dc nanny

I work 64 hrs a week, I make $52/hr.

Id like to think I'm making a professional salary.

Sweet.