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[quote=Anonymous]I was just thinking back on the experience that I had this summer, and at this point I'm kind of laughing over the whole situation. I've never worked for a family like this before, and I will definitely take my time in choosing a family to work with for next summer after everything that happened.

-The lady I worked for hired me basically so she could get some school work done (she went to school online) and also get house work done as well since she never had time. My hours were 11-3 Tuesday and Thursday, and she would sleep until 2 everyday, so obviously school and house work wasn't really getting done. I honestly don't care what she did while I was there, but I think her husband would have been pissed to be paying me and not see stuff getting done, so she kept asking me to clean everything since she wasn't doing it.

-That brings me to the cleaning. She would leave piles of dirty dishes on the counter without even rinsing them. Since I was only there Tuesday and Thursday she would just leave dishes that had syrup and other things on them without rinsing from Thursday until the next Tuesday.

-She would ask me to do weeks worth of laundry at a time. I swear her and the kids had to be wearing 2-3 outfits per day because the amount of laundry that would pile up between Thursday and Tuesday was just insane.

-She basically wanted me to plop the kids in front of the TV (a big no-no for me personally) so that I could do her housework. Some days I would take the kids to the pool for the entire four hours just so she wasn't able to tell me to do any of her cleaning.

Looking back, I wish I would have stood up to her more in the moment, but I knew I was only going to be working for them for about six weeks, so I just let it all slide. She actually asked me a few weeks ago if I could watch her kids in the morning before school for 1.5 hours everyday. I told her I already have another job that is full day on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so that wouldn't be possible. She actually asked me if I would quit my job where I work 15 hours per week over three days to take her job that is 7.5 hours per week spread over five, but she also wanted to pay me the same as I make at my other job. No thanks! After I told her I wouldn't be able to do it she contacted me again and asked if she could put me down as an emergency contact for her kids' schools. I told her I'm at work MWF and in class Tuesdays and Thursdays in the afternoon, so there's no way I'd ever be able to pick them up anyway.

So what are your bad nannying experiences? The kids were so sweet, and we had a lot of fun (when we could actually play together), so I feel bad for leaving them with this crazy lady, but I don't think I could put up with that for more than the summer.[/quote]

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