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[quote=Anonymous]Background: I pay my nanny $21/hr to watch my 4 year old as well as housekeeping duties. She does the bathrooms, floors, and laundry each week. She does some minor dusting, cleanup, and tidying when DS naps. She works 5 days per week, 9AM-6PM, receives extended medical and dental from us. She is great with DS and he adores her.

The situation: I have a set shelf in the fridge for meal options for both DS and nanny. I have precut fruit, veggies, homemade soups and chilli's, sandwich meat, cheese, etc. She also has a shelf in the pantry that she is welcome to eat from. Granola bars, cereal, rice crackers, nuts, bread, cans of soup, alphagetti. We try to accommodate her and DS's mealtimes.

That being said: I have outlined strict rules as to what she's not supposed to eat. She's to leave alone the other stuff in the fridge for the family meals. We have a large supply of salmon and meat in the freezer. Over the past couple of weeks I have noticed a flat of chicken breasts, an entire salmon, and a pack of pork chops gone missing. We have no other staff that come into the household, I'm the one who does all the meals for my family so I know what goes in and goes out. But it's just beyond me. I've asked her if she prepared a meat dish for DS and her but she said no. She knows she's not supposed to go in the freezer. Even my "special cupboard" that's above the fridge has been growing thin. I could have sworn a bottle of wine that I just bought is now missing. I would know if my husband drank it because we would still have the bottle.

I don't know what to do. We pay her well enough so that I know she doesn't need to steal to feed herself. If that was the case i'd be happy to negotiate a pay raise in exchange for more care. However, I'm leaning towards letting her go but if she claims unemployment how will that affect me? To be honest, if she just came clean I would be more likely to keep her on. I don't like being lied to and I feel like i'm going crazy wondering where all my food is going!

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