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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think what you're describing falls under "job creep." 
 You explicitly agreed to this duty when you negotiated job specifics, so it's not job creep.  It's just more of a task than you expected.[/quote]

I kind of agree.  I guess you could tell them that this is a bigger job than you expected and ask them to take out the trash half the time or something.

Just out of curiosity, how are they producing 2/3 of the trash, compost, and recycling if you are doing all of the cooking and grocery shopping?  I would say that nearly all of our garbage is from food.  What are they doing at night that make so much trash?[/quote]

OP here. I didn't explain how the conversation went very well, I apologize for that. As I said, during initial negotiations MB and DB asked me to take out the bins if they are full. I told them that that had never been part of my official job description as a nanny, but also said that in previous positions if the bins got filled up during my shift I would usually take them out. MB immediately said "yes, that's what we meant, if they are filled during your shift." So at that point I agreed.

I just looked over my contract to see how it's worded there and it's fairly vague. There is a section in the job description that says "to be completed if time allows," and underneath it says "empty out trash, recycling, compost bins if they are full." The issue with that wording is that when I show up for my 11 hour day, and the bins are full, I can't get through my day preparing meals for everyone, and so forth, without emptying the bins -- otherwise there would be garbage and decaying food matter left out on the counter which is pretty gross to even consider! So it's not a matter of "if time allows" because I have to make time for it no matter what, which usually means leaving the baby and toddler alone while I take the refuse outside.

To the pp who suggested stomping the bins down, that sometimes works for the garbage but rarely is effective for the recycling or compost. To the above pp there are a few reasons they seem to fill up the bins so quickly. One is that the bins are all fairly small; the kitchen has a perfect little trash drawer thing, but I think it was meant to hold one or maybe two bins, not three. The biggest reason the recycling bin is always full is because MB and DB receive many packages in the mail, which they open in the evening. They do take the biggest boxes (which wouldn't fit into the kitchen bin no matter how hard they might try) directly outside themselves, but the small and medium sized cardboard boxes are always getting jammed into the kitchen bin, which fills it up quickly, along with the days newspapers and magazines. The recycling bin is the one that most often goes from empty at 6:30pm to completely full at 7:30am and cardboard boxes and newspapers are the biggest reason.

As for the compost bin, the family eats dinner after I leave and MB and DB eat breakfast before I arrive. MB does like to cook; I do a lot of meal prepping but she will still frequently make other dishes, salad, etc, that create compost waste, and there is the inevitable kid waste after dinner as well. MB and DB also frequently entertain guests, both for dinner and also sometimes with wine and cheese/ dessert plates after the kids are in bed.  Even with all that I have to agree it seems odd that the bin gets filled so quickly, but it does.

I hope that explains things a little better, especially with regard to why I consider this job creep, because when we first discussed taking the bins out, MB specifically said she meant only if they were filled during my shift, which isn't what is happening now. While I agree this isn't a hill I want to die on, I was hoping there might be a constructive way to bring this up; unfortunately it seems there is not. [/quote]

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