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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't do their laundry, make their beds, vacuum their entire house, or dust. If an employer were to ask me to take on those tasks, it would cost them about $400 more per week.

I do load/empty the dishwasher, take out kitchen and diaper trash, do all the cooking for my charges, do family groceries and errands, vacuum the main living/play area every other week, do kid laundry, organize toys/outgrown clothes, etc. [/quote]

I wouldn't hire you because the tasks that you list don't take much time at all. My kids nap for at least 3.5 hours every afternoon. This is 12.5 hours a week on top of a daily one hour break. It takes 10 minutes to unload the dishwasher. Kid laundry is not a daily task and no one needs someone organizing outgrown clothes more than a few times a year. You are just being dishonest trying to claim that any of these things add up to actual work.

I pay our nanny a reasonable rate which may or may not be more than your rate + 400 to actually do something during nap time. Luckily, my nanny has a good work ethic which I think is the real probably with so many nannies on this site. You have no work ethic. You only want to maximize your downtime or expect some extra compensation to get yourself off the couch. You will not go far with this approach. [/quote]

Nannies get paid between $10 and $20 per hour so you can't be too picky. It has less to do with nannies trying to maximize THEIR downtime, and more to do with MB's trying to fill in each hour with duties and get their money's worth. There will be downtime and unless you're paying $30+ an hour, nannies will continue to have their downtime. If you come home to a happy, healthy, content baby and a clean home then why rock the boat?

You think your nanny has an amazing work ethic but the truth is, when you come home and kick up on the couch while ignoring yours kid and pouring a cold drink, what you're really doing is pouring a glass of your nannies resentful spit![/quote]

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