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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]reasonable request.  she has 3 hours of break per day- it only takes 10 minutes to unload a dishwasher and 15 minutes to fold laundry and you said "Light housework" when you hired her.  
If you have 2+ kids and the nanny was fully utilized, it would be different- she wouldn't have free time.  
You are not that vested in her- look for a new nanny.
I'm an MB, if I told my boss I wouldn't do something outside my "job description" in my downtime(which is laughable, because in corporate, you just do whatever is asked of you), I wouldn't get a year-end bonus, or worse be put on probation and potentially lose my job.[/quote]

Just because the nanny is in your house does not mean you can request that she take care of anything in sight (I mean sure, request it, but be prepared for her say no). Nanny positions and corporate jobs are a world apart-something that has been beaten to death on these boards-and so your comparison is useless.

This post is MONTHS old but let's just say, for the sake of argument, that this is happening now. The dishwasher is fully of MB/DBs dishes, not nanny's or baby's. Why should this fall under the nanny's responsibilities just because it's a crappy chore the boss doesn't want to do themselves? Yeah, it takes 10 minutes, the adults who make the dishes should be perfectly capable of finding this time in their day to do the job themselves. [/quote]

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