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[quote=Anonymous]Hey nannies and parents!

I have been a nanny for the past 13 years and am also a certified newborn care specialist with additional certifications in infant and toddler sleep training. I have been with the same high net worth family for the past 4 years. They have six children and I am currently only responsible for the youngest, and infant. The other 5 children have their own nannies. I work different hours every single week-and am often scheduled to care for the baby during the night and during travel. My hours vary from 50 per week and can go up to 100+ during a very busy or travel week. The nannies often do not get their schedule until Saturday or Sunday night for the following week. I am often scheduled shifts that are 12-16 hours long, and very often have shifts that are 24+ hours long as well. I often work holidays and am expected to be available to work them no matter what family obligations I may have. I am compensated very well for the New York area. Below is a breakdown of my compensation package:

33.00 per hour
Overtime-time and a half after 8 hours and double time after 12.
Health insurance fully paid for by my boss. (680.00 per month)
2 weeks of paid vacation per year

Now, I realize that I am paid a vey very high salary, but please understand that the things I have to deal with in this position AND my many years of experience with added certifications FULLY warrant that. My problem, is that because I am paid such a high salary my boss feels that she OWNS me. Below I have made a list of the problems I am having:

1. Not receiving my schedule until very last minute, therefor making it to where I cannot schedule things that I need to do or have any sort of a life outside of work.

2. Receiving constant texts at all hours of the day/night when I am not on duty

3. No consideration that I have a family at home as well who I would like to be able to spend at least some holidays with.

4. Not feeling respected or valued-this is due to every move I make with the children constantly being questioned. If baby spits up, I must not have burped him enough, if baby didn't take a nap, it must be my fault, If baby is fussy, I must not know how to soothe him etc.

5. Constant negative critisism. "You're holding baby too much and spoiling him." -which is untrue and unwarranted.

There are a lot more issues, but those are the main ones and a few examples to go along with them. After dealing with these things for many years I dexides to schedule a meeting with my boss last month. I sat down with her and laid everything out onto the table. What I thought was a meeting I had scheduled to let her know my concerns and my suggestions for solving them turned into a meeting where she had her own agenda. What agenda was that you ask? To basically tell me that I am paid a very high salary, and that because of that I should just take the job as it is, and have absolutely no complaints. I tried to explain to her that appreciation and consideration were much more important to me than money, and that the money was a bonus. So basically, what the whole conversation boils down to is that she OWNS me because she pays me so well, and that I should just keep my mouth shut with any complaints from that point forward. None of my concerns/complaints were validated at all, and she is unwilling to make any changes or improvements.

Im wondering your thoughts on all of this? Am I out of line for expecting to be treated like a human being or is she out of line for acting like she owns me because of the high salary? Would you stay on in this type of situation, or would you do your darnedest to find another job that pays a comparable amount of money? (They are out there but are few and far between, and its all about the right timing in finding them)

Please no rude responses, as that's not what I need right now.

Thanks in advance

-Nanny

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