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[quote=Anonymous]Nanny watches 2 kids one older toddler and one preschooler from 8:45-5:45. Both kids are in Montessori preschool. DC#2 goes from 9-12 5 days a week. DC#1 was originally in the 9-3 session but since DC#2 naps between 1-4 nanny convinced us to keep in aftercare until DC#2 wakes up. I looked at the sign in sheets and noticed that DC#1 was being signed out later than 4pm, sometimes as late at 4:45. I started watching and fast forwarding through the nanny cams. Yes, nanny knows that we have always had these but we only watched them in the beginning.

8:45 nanny arrives and I leave for work Nanny drops both kids off at preschool immediately. 
9:15 nanny gets home and does no more than 10 - 15 minutes of tasks. She unload a dishwasher with clean dishes and twice a week throws in a load of laundry. 
9:30-11:45 nanny naps on the couch, does something on her computer on the couch, watches TV on the couch. 
11:45 nanny leaves to get DC#2
noon-12:15 nanny gets home with DC#2, makes lunch, they both eat lunch
1pm DC#2 goes down for a nap
1-4pm Nanny goes back to napping, watching TV, or on her computer
4pm DC#2 wakes up, nanny plays with him and folds laundry twice a week while he plays for 30 minutes
4:30 nanny leaves to get DC#1
4:45-5:45 - nanny either plays with both kids at home or gets home at 5:30 (they do go to a nearby park. 
5:30 I get home 15 minutes early each day to guard against traffic, nanny is packed up and ready to go, usually leaves by 5:35 or 5:40

This wasn't one day. I fast forwarded through the video and watched for several days. She is literally spending 5 hours and 15 minutes everyday on the couch. At most she is with the children for 2 hours and 15 minutes a day. Even during this time she is feeding herself and folding laundry twice a week which I wouldn't mind if she didn't have such a huge amount of downtime.

This clearly isn't working for us and a huge waste of money. Nanny is definitely the type that will pout, sulk, and avoid any additional tasks. Nanny is also highly paid, is the type that asks about her Christmas bonus (so she can plan) in early December, calls immediately whenever it snows just to check that we'll be staying home because it *might* be treacherous and would die if it wasn't a paid day off. These things were annoying but on top of how she is basically being paid to sit on a couch all day, its too much for me. DH wants to terminate her and replace her. I agree that this isn't working for us. DH wants to just give her the notice in the contract and no severance because she doesn't do anything beyond the bare minimum. I'm on the fence about this.

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