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[quote=Anonymous]We have a temporary nanny for one week to cover a gap before school resumes. She is 23 and a fully qualified teacher who graduated with a 4.0 GPA, and so far in general she seems great, i.e excellent at deailing with quite feisty kids, plans fun activities. However, I work from home, so I could see just now that while the kids played in the garden after breakfast, she sat down and looked at her cell phone for about 10-15 minutes. Not only is this just basically wrong, but it's not like there isn't anything to do - she should be getting them dressed etc! I don't even mind when nannies carry their cell phones around and check them briefly from time to time. In particular I know that this nanny is looking for a permanent full-time job so needs to be able to communicate with prospective employers, but her cell phone attachment has seemed a bit excessive so far and today is already too much, it's just so unprofessional. I also overheard her talking to my 5-year-old daughter yesterday about John Lennon being shot and George Harrison dying of cancer, which does not seem like an age appropriate conversation. For someone with an impeccable educational background and very successful school placement experiences, you would think she would show better judgement than that, and it is so surprising as she is so great in many other ways and otherwise very intelligent.

She has limited nanny experience so is probably using us as a reference and I dread getting a phone call. I think I'd have to emphasise to a prospective employer that they need to have a very explicit cell phone policy. We have always had a written contract / guildelines in the past that included limiting cell phone use, but as this was just for a week we didn't bother with this aspect of things. Also we had a nanny before who was a qualified teacher and she usually only looked at/answered her phone during break times or if she was out and might be getting a message from us, so I didn't expect to have to micro manage this person since she had a similar background. Lesson learned. I'm thinking maybe I should give her a copy of our contract and tell her that I think it might be helpful for her to understand what some employers' expectations might be since this is all quite new to her, and then I can at least tell anyone who phones for a reference that I've done that. [/quote]

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