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[quote=Anonymous]The defensive "I'm not a maid!!!" nannies are carrying on as if the argument being made by moms is that the nannies must clean the entire house, toilet scrubbing and all, make everyone's beds, do everyone's laundry, and otherwise accomplish each and every domestic task one can think of. That's not the case, and I certainly haven't seen anyone arue for it.

What a number of employers ARE saying: those nannies who draw a like in the sand and declare that they will ONLY do child related tasks are typically just plain lazy. The extreme aversion to even considering the task of emptying the dishwasher of ADULT dishes (oh, the horror!) or running a load of adult laundry (but the undergarments...dear god!) is just silly. Most families I know don't ask the nanny to do adult laundry or adult bed making. But dishwashers? Sure. Sweep or vaccuum? Maybe. The adamant refusal to even consider a non-child related task is what makes you seem lazy and entitled. I have a professional, white collar, private office sort of job. Is filling copy paper part of my job?  Nope, but I do it. Is setting up for a lunch meeting part of my job, or cleaning up dishes after?  No, but I do it. I do plenty of "menial" tasks that fall well outside of my job description every day, as well as tasks that I could claim are the responsibility of another person or another department, because I have work ethic, a sense of personal responsibility, and a desire to function as part of a well oiled machine that is my office team. Sure, I COULD stand in my office and whine that those things aren't in my job description, but then I'd be behaving like a lazy entitled brat, and despite my stellar professional accomplishments in my area of expertise, would be viewed far less favorably by my employer. [/quote]

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