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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Errands groceries etc is not her responsibility. Either pay for the time or find yourself looking for another nanny. Your family has covid I wouldn’t want to work for you either and I’m definitely not helping with any “chores” that’s not the nanny’s responsibility [/quote]

You sound like a real delight. You do realize that every working adult’s responsibility to their employer is to make their lives easier, right? Being so contentious is not helpful for you or anyone. [/quote]

No my job is to care for your child not run errands to make your life easier. If you want an “easier” life I’m happy to up my rate if not it’s strictly childcare only. I’m not a doormat![/quote]

If you are this contentious and conflict seeking with your boss, it’s unsurprising to me that you’re trolling the employer forum and picking fights with potential employers. Here’s the thing - if you’re a good employee, you do your job and more. That’s how you advance - that’s how you get paid more - that’s how you get promoted. You don’t see your job as doing the bare minimum to get by and picking fights with your boss and saying you’re being treated like a doormat. Try to be solutions oriented and useful instead of angry and conflict seeking and you might be amazed at how far you can go professionally. [/quote]

So you do your boss’s grocery shopping then, I take it? I mean, because it’s all about “making their life easier” and all.  :roll:

Buffoon.[/quote]

No, but I realize that “other duties as assigned” is a part of every job and that being useful and helpful is far more likely to earn me the raises I seek than complaining and drawing hard lines in the sand about what I do and don’t do. Trying being pleasant and useful and team oriented instead of oppositional with your bosses and seeing yourself as a victim who is being exploited by them. Nannying is a very cush gig, and nonone just gets to sit on their butt and ask to be paid for doing 2 weeks of no work when they refuse to come in. A service oriented mentality has served me with numerous promotions and I’ve gone from being people’s nanny to literally making 10x my old salary and now being in a position to employ a nanny. I didn’t get there by being indignant and angry and trying to draw hard lines in the sand about what I was and was not being paid to do. See what needs to be done, and do it. More often than not you get rewarded for that. [/quote]

Good for you! Most smart nanny’s have in their contract guaranteed hours. My nanny family and charges were out with covid for 3 weeks. I was paid for those 3 weeks and wasn’t asked/ nor expected to help- in fact they wanted me to stay far away as possible so I wouldn’t get infected! I was paid the 3 weeks so they could retain my services once feeling better. It’s no different than daycare you pay to save your slot or don’t and someone else takes your slot and you’re out of childcare. [/quote]

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