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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would lay out specifics at the start. And from our experience ask for daily unloading of the dishwasher. Doesn’t sound like an issue at first but I ran into the situation where our nanny was loading all her dishes she would use during the day for herself, the baby dishes, and bottles daily. I would come home to a full dirty dishwasher and would have to then run it and Empty it , which lead to me having to be running/ emptying  multiple extra loads. I felt like I was actually doing her dishes. So we had to ask for her to empty the dishwasher moving forward even if it contained our dinner dishes etc[/quote]

So you won’t do the nanny dishes, but you expect her to do yours? What an entitled employer.[/quote]

+1. [/quote]

I can't believe at Starbucks, the barista has to make my coffee but I don't make coffee for him. What an entitled customer I am...
The nanny is paid to do a job. It is up to parent + nanny to define what that job entails and set mutual expectations. Unloading dishes doesn't seem like a big stretch from child-related duties -- in my house 50-75% of those dishes are due to kids' food, and trying to split hairs on whether the nanny only unloads the specific dishes related to kids/herself seems like the kind of nitpickiness that would take you down a bad path relationship-wise.[/quote]

Agree, but if nanny can't be bothered to run/unload dishwasher, ask her to do all dishes used during the day for children and for her by hand. That way, she doesn't have to get bent out of shape doing something she thinks is inappropriate for her role.[/quote]

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