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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like others I think only you can know whether it is a deal breaker. We are all bad at some thing and she may have discuvered her achilies heel. I personally am terrible at dealing with any sort of violence or agressin. I learned that by working for a DB who liked to dominate women. I was a great nanny but if you called him today he would disagree because I threw some four letter words at him on my way out the door with no advance notice. I know that if the same situation played out again then I would probably react the same way. Aggressive men bring me to my limit, unfortunately, masking that I am very professional at all other times.[/quote]

That was quite an honest post! I'm the nanny that posted upthread about the disgruntled employer who couldn't pay me on time. I was very young when I had that job and wasn't so great with confrontation. Looking back on that time now, I recognize that while they were terrible employers I could have done a better job of sticking up for myself. I don't know that I could have said anything to make them better employers, but at least it wouldn't have come as so much of a surprise when I did quit. I would be happy to explain what I've learned from that job to a prospective employer, and even let them speak to my former employer, if I could trust them to be honest. When I quit they kept brushing off the missed paychecks as a non issue, and acting like I was breaking our contract (which would be a huge deal to prospective employers, I imagine). [/quote]

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