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[Post New]09/30/2014 15:46
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Anonymous
Hello I'm a Nanny and had the same problem but I was very tired and said my boss that I can't do that... Please do not accept that, you are a Nanny
[Post New]09/30/2014 16:01
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nannydebsays

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And if you choose not to do the housekeeping, and they choose not to have you work those 2.5 hours twice a week, make sure they know you will not be available for sick days or school holidays those 5 hours a week.

If they want you to be available to work, they need to pay you. if they want you to clean their house, they need to ASK you, and accept your answer.

I would consider coming up with other things you could do, like weekly groceries, errands, etc. if you will not clean.
[Post New]09/30/2014 21:01
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Anonymous
The only other thing I asked my nanny to do after adding daycare for 4 hours a day was occasionally go grocery shopping for me. Otherwise she is free to do as she pleases in that time.
[Post New]10/01/2014 12:13
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I've been working for four years with the same family and the boy is going to a daycare school 2 days a week from 9-12 and I drop him off and pick him up. (10 minute drive) Then I stay at their home cleaning. BUT there used to be a housecleaner every other Monday. My bosses recently told me that the two days that I stay at their home, I have to clean their house and do their laundry! Their house has four bathrooms, four bedrooms, a basement, etc. Honestly, the hours that I am there cleaning, I am very tired. When I applied for the job, I specifically said that I am a nanny, which includes doing the kids laundry, meals, and doing everything for the KID. not a housecleaner. Should I continue to clean their house with no extra charge? I talked to my boss and she said "I fired the housecleaner because I need the extra money for my sons school."


MB here w/ a toddler who goes to schools for the same amount of hours plus an additional day (longer hours) somewhere else. We also have an infant, so our nanny watches the 2nd child. Obviously, the infant sleeps a lot more, so if that's the case then the nanny has down time.

It sounds like you would be free from 9:10 to about 11:50 2x a week which is only 5 hours and 20 minutes a week. If you are ok with is, I would suggest that you just do chores related to the boy. If you don't do this already, I would offer to empty out their dishwasher, maybe tidy up the basement (is that the play area), clean/tidy up his room (i.e., do you strip his sheets and make his bed every week?), organize his clothes. I would tell them that you do not do bathrooms. Maybe offer to cook meals for him or the whole family instead of having to clean. Or offer to run errands for the family? Pick up dry cleaning and groceries?

good luck.
[Post New]10/01/2014 12:33
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:The only other thing I asked my nanny to do after adding daycare for 4 hours a day was occasionally go grocery shopping for me. Otherwise she is free to do as she pleases in that time.


Riiiiiiight. So you pay for 20 hours per week for your nanny to relax? (4 hrs x 5 days a week). I don't buy it for 1 second.
[Post New]10/01/2014 12:58
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Anonymous
I psy $25.00 an hour for house cleaner so tell them you charge a higher rate for house cleaning and doing lsunfry. Be prepared to movepn
move on.
[Post New]10/01/2014 12:59
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Anonymous
Laundry not lsunfry.
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