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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't side with the MB at all - I've repeatedly and in every post said that no, she should not loan her nanny out.  But nannies need to remember that we may have a uniquely personal relationship with our families, but we are also providing a service in exchange for money.  The employer gets to set the stage for what is being offered and what services they want.  You certainly don't have to accept the job or keep the job of course.  But again, it's not an issue of the OP here treating her nanny like property instead of like a person.  It's the employer setting a job requirement that the employee is free to not accept.

Let's say an MB had a week off and asked her nanny to work at a friend's house instead for that week.  As I've said a million times, the nanny is more than free to be insulted and put off by this request.  It's a renegotiation of the terms upon which she was hired.  Similarly, in a business setting, you can most definitely direct someone into an entirely new position or location or department or set of duties.  And the employee can be upset about it, and they can deal with it or leave.

It doesn't then become a human rights issue of employers treating people like property in direct disobedience with the emancipation proclamation.  I would argue that when we fly off the handle and be nasty like this rather than maintaining a professional attitude and explaining our position, that THAT is not helping the cause of nannies as a whole either.

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Wow--a rational nanny![/quote]

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