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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No nanny, you are delusional. I work for the government. My hours are FREQUENTLY changed to accomadate the needs of the community. And I know this May seem shocking to you, but I don't get paid just because they scheduled me. I have to, you know, work if I want to be paid.

Secondly, I worked in retail in college. The retail industry employees millions of people. And it is very, very common for a manager to approach his/her employees during a slow period and pick a few to send home because they are not needed. It happens everyday in all kinds of industries.

Nanny, please take a break from the nanny world, go out into corporate America and get an actual job.  Then perhaps you will have a little more perspective about what " no one would do". [/quote]

So, you don't think being a nanny is an "actual job"?  You mean a job that has the lives and well being of your children in their hands day in and day out?  Horrible that you think so little of your own children to put them in the care of such an amateur worker.  [/quote]
Yeah, she's the delusional twit here. If she keeps up her insanity, we should start reporting her garbage.[/quote]

I'll address both of these questions:

By "actual job" I mean one that is not a contract position to work for one person (or family) inside their home, as nannying is. I'm not saying being a nanny is not work, of course it is. But being the only employee working inside the home of a single person for what is typically only a few years is a very different work experience than what most of us (in the US) are doing. If this is the only type of employment you have experienced, you would be very ignorant of the way in which most jobs operate. For example, my nanny answers only to me and does what I desire. She is not required to make me a profit, gain me business, improve my reputation with my customers, represent me to others, or do any of a number of things the typical employee is required to do. It is just an entirely different animal than a normal job, the kind most of us do and are familiar with. The kinds that certainly do not "guarantee hours" or pay us when we don't work.

And to the second poster, what in the world would you report me for?  Especially when you called me a "delusional twit". Strange. [/quote]

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