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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have had our nanny for approx 4 months. She can’t figure out how to work anything around the house correctly. She can’t unfold/ fold stroller or even take car seat out of it no matter how many times I’ve showed her. She doesn’t follow instructions on what settings to run the washing machine Or what  detergent to use. She can’t figure out baby gates. Diaper genie insert loaded incorrectly often. Took her forever to learn the baby monitor, she could not understand how to set it up If it wasn’t already angled appropriately. Showed her how to use our echo to play music for baby, she could not do it. Anything with an iPad app, forget it. Just  really basic baby things, I even wrote down instructions for her on some items and gave her a print out ( which I think she just took home). Her English is good and she has her own iPad that she uses for internet even! And on top of it she doesn’t really ask questions. Just getting to be really annoying because I feel like I have to have everything set up for her all the time. [/quote]
That's funny. I'm a mother and I can't figure any of those things out. I'm glad you didn't pick me as your nanny. Your home has too many gadgets and too many options (which detergent to use? how many do you have?). 
How many setting do you have on your dishwasher? Write down the one you want chosen and tape it above the DW.
Baby gates? Can't even tell you how many times I've stepped over the baby gates in different indoor parks because I couldn't figure them out.
Once had to squeeze new stroller in the front seat because I couldn't figure out how to fold it.
I couldn't play your Echo either or use a baby monitor (I am the baby monitor-never further than few steps).
I actually feel for her because I find all the gadgets painful.
Some people talk about educated nanny vs uneducated nanny, foreign nanny vs American nanny...
 I got my bachelor's degree in America though my high school abroad was several times more rigorous. I'd say I'm fairly educated, speak 5 languages, and I'm raising 2 great trilingual kids, but all your gadgets would stomp me too. 
As a paid nanny, I'd give it my best try, but anyone could see that gadgets and I don't get along and she might be the same way. Maybe she chose the career so she could be far away from the echos, computers, printers and what have you. I don't use most of the stuff you have and my kids are fine. (The carseat stays in the car and there's a smaller stroller in the trunk). We don't even use the diswasher -too loud and takes too long.
How is she as a nanny? How is she with the kids? How's her driving if she does drive?[/quote]

If you were a career nanny, you would know that part of the job is being careful, attentive and observant as you integrate yourself into a new household.  I might not know how to use a baby device or monitor by default, but I do know that it is my job to care the baby in an environment populated with these things and to make my boss’ life easier, not harder.  In the age of google, it is not hard.  I look up and read the manual on the car seat, stroller, monitor and other devices.  It is pretty standard that you don’t use harsh or highly-scented products on babies, so it is common sense to simply look at the label on detergeant and know that the “free and clear” bottle is for the baby.  And it is part of the job to be able to remember preferences about dishwashers and so on.  I don’t think this stuff is all default common sense, but the awareness that 1) it is your job as a nanny to figure stuff out and 2) there are lots of good sources for that info that don’t burden your employer.[/quote]

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