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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I cook most meals at my house, and our live-in nanny usually eats with us.  I knock on her door and let her know when stuff is ready.  She makes her own breakfast and lunch, and is welcome to prepare anything else if what I cooked is not to her liking. [/quote]

Does she help clean up after meals? Clear the table, load the dishwasher?

If we both work all day, I come home from work, watch the kids while I cook dinner (while she relaxes in her room); then I knock on her bedroom door to let her know dinner is ready, she comes down and eats dinner and does not help clear the table or load the dishwasher (my kids revery young) this won't sit well with me.

She is an adult, if she eats dinner that I prepare she should help out.[/quote]

I don't have that expectation.  She works long hours so I want her to rest and relax when her workday is over.  DH or I are cleaning after dinner anyway and one more plate isn't a big deal.  But she watches the baby while I make dinner if he's still awake.  [/quote]

Well, if she is watching the the baby if he is awake (outside her work hours) she is helping out. I am working a regular job. If I come home, and I am preparing meals while watching the kids; while nanny is getting her much needed rest, then comes down to eat when dinner is ready and does not help with clean up it won't sit well with me. I understand the OP feelings about this.

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Not her kids.  You don’t get asked to do work off the clock without compensation.  Neither should she.  Room and board is not contingent on doing housework that involves the whole family instead of just herself.[/quote]

So she gets to relax while the OP comes home from work, prepares dinner,  Nanny comes down the meal OP prepared, eats and goes back to her room?  Come on... Both nanny and OP have full days. The nanny is not being a good housemate. In addition, she is supposed to be preparing her own meals per the OP.[/quote]

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