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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Maybe I think I'm the boss.[/b]  Maybe the point is that it's my house, my family, my money paying your salary, and my rules.  Maybe the point is you accepted this offer from me, for this job, working for someone you've had ample opportunity to get to know.  If you don't like it you're free to leave but no one forced you to accept the offer after all the time you've invested in getting to know me as a potential employer.  
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I'm sorry, I find statements like these funny. I'm a nanny and I don't really think of you as my boss. You're not better than me, you're not above me, or whatever, and you're not some hot shot CEO at a big company. I don't work for you, I work with you. We are in a mutually beneficial business relationship, you are my customer and client, and I make my own rules and set my own rates and standards. If you don't like it, you are free to do business elsewhere, as am I. I think a lot of MBs would do well to get off their "I'm the boss" high horse, stop thinking you're better than us/own us, and try to find someone you can work with, not someone who makes you feel like the boss. [/quote]
I find it funny that you think being your boss necessarily makes someone better than you.  That's for your therapist to sort out.  I don't think even think I'm better than my cleaning woman.  She sells the service and I buy it, and she performs it to my satisfaction, that's about the sum of it.

I'm no better than you, or I might be, we'll never know and we don't have a scale to measure people. I might be a CEO or not, that's not really the point.  But nannies do in fact work for their parents, taking their direction, and while nannies have some autonomy within the confines of your job, that autonomy has limits and nannies do indeed work under the direction of their boss parents. Not the other way round.  You can't maintain that job without keeping the parents happy. In fact, I can't think of one childcare decision where the nanny's opinion would outstrip the parents', and I can't think of one decision you'd make over the parents.[/quote]

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