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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Correction, my job is not to make your life easier, it's to take damn good care of your children while you work and do any child related cleaning up after them. If you need someone to make your life easier, hire a personal assistant. [/quote]

What you don't seem to understand is that taking "damn good care" of my children DOES make my life easier. Showing up on time, taking good care of my children, making sure they are happy and well cared floor and leaving my house in the condition you found it in are pretty basic things any halfway decent nanny should do and those are all things that make my life easier. Of course many nannies do much more than just those things and they are the nannies holding the long term highly paid positions. Making my life easier doesn't have to involve emptying my dishwasher or doing my laundry. It means doing your job as a nanny to the best of your ability so I know my children are happy and well cared for while I'm at work so I can do my job. [/quote]

I agree with your post fully, but I think what OP was trying to get at is the frequently expressed attitude that a nanny's job is to make her MBs life easier as a vague and general idea. My job may be to make your life easier but I firmly believe that means only within a certain scope. It might make it easier for you if I did adult laundry, cooked gourmet dinners, or drove you to and from work each day, but that doesn't inherently make it my job. My job is whatever we agreed upon, and that's it. A lot of MBs construct basic childcare only jobs, paying an average rate for an average job, THEN start expecting anything under the sun that "makes their life easier" without any adjustment to compensation or consideration for the fact that your nanny signed up for the job you outlined for the reason. I don't do adult laundry or housekeeping, and I don't take jobs that include those duties. [/quote]

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