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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're coming to interview with me and you're wearing a wire because you're presuming I'm going to ask illegal questions and you will then be prepared to follow up w/ legal action, you can be damn sure we're not a fit.

We're done before I've even asked if you'd like a glass of water.[/quote]
The wire doesn't exactly get wrapped around her forehead, FYI.[/quote]

Thanks for that bit of enlightenment.[/quote]

Also, you realize this is kind of a grey area in the law but if you wear a wire when you go into someone's home and you don't have their permission to record them it may not be admissible in court anyway so what would you do with it?[/quote]
Hopefully you don't need to worry about that, do you?[/quote]

I already have a fantastic nanny and I'm not hiring so no I don't need to worry about it. I also don't care about nannies religion, race etc. I didn't even know the exact age of our current nanny before we hired her because it didn't matter to me. I was simply pointing out to all the nannies discussing wearing a wire that it's not so simple as recording someone and then suing them. If you met in a public place you might be able to do it but in someone's home there is an expectation of privacy so a judge probably wouldn't allow it.

And by the way, it's not only nannies who have to deal with these kinds of issues. My first job interview out of school I was asked how soon I planned to have children. I was a newlywed and said we really hadn't decided yet. A year later when I was pregnant they asked me if it had been planned (it was) and shortly after that I was let go. So it happens in all sorts of professions. [/quote]

Whoa! Is that legal?? Was the reason because you "lied"? [/quote]

They claimed it was because of "financial difficulty" which to be fair they were having financial problems but until I told them I was pregnant they were willing to work with me. Once I told them I was pregnant they started acting really different towards me and clearly were not happy I was pregnant. Then they let me go shortly after. At first they told me I was wonderful and it wasn't my fault, they just couldn't afford to pay my salary anymore. Then when I tried to collect unemployment they started trying to blame it on me and claim I hadn't fulfilled some duties outlined in my contract. It wasn't true and I still got unemployment. [/quote]

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