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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An employee at a company might be reassigned (temporarily or permanently) within the company. That is not the same as loaning an employee to another company (??) without ASKING THEM if they'd like to go, while also docking their pay that week/month since, hey, these other folks will be paying them.

You cannot loan out a human being. It is not dramatic to be offended by such a suggestion. The nanny is an employee of a family, and as a PERSON cannot just be given to another family to serve them when they don't need her. That is the exact definition of owning a person and it is thankfully illegal.[/quote]

Ok, PP.  Go ahead and be horribly offended and twist it into a human rights issue.  I 100% agreed that the OP should not do this and that she's most certainly writing herself into losing this nanny if she does go ahead with it.  But I still think the posters were way too hysterical in their reactions.[/quote]

OP asked if the nanny has a say. Meaning, she'd like to make this decision to give her nanny to another family without even consulting her nanny.

You don't find that offensive? REALLY?[/quote]

I find it extremely ill-advised, as I've said.  But it's not a human rights issue.[/quote]

Okay but why is it crazy that nannies would find the question offensive? OP literally asked if her nanny has a say in this matter. To even think that she wouldn't have a say is beyond reason to me, and speaks to OPs lack of respect for her nanny. Who would even dream of doing this without considering what your nanny has to say about it?? It is blatantly offensive, and lets not get into qualifying the emotions of others. We are all entitled to our opinions and our emotions even if you don't agree with them. Some of the PPs, myself included, were offended and found the OP and title disgusting.[/quote]

And even that's fine, seriously.  But I don't think it's a "personhood" thing or an emancipation proclamation ownership thing or a slavery thing.  And see how nicely you just described your reasoning without any inflammatory language and by describing your opinion thoroughly?  That was much more useful than freaking out and using sarcasm, as seems to be the norm on this board.  That's all I'm trying to say.  It's so much more useful to posters (particuarly ones who are as misguided as this OP seems to be) to describe how you feel and why than to attack and resort to slavery accusations.[/quote]

Oh get over yourself.

We all explained ourselves very clearly, then you sauntered in here trying to be the cool nanny who sides with the idiotic MB who thinks she owns her nanny by dismissing our outrage.

You don't have to be outraged, but it's really not helping the cause of nannies as a whole by saying we're being inflammatory by pointing out that the nanny is a human being and cannot be loaned out like property can. That is, full stop, an outrageous idea and OP deserved everything she got.[/quote]

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