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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. My current MB poached me from another family, and brought that up as well. How underhanded I am. 
The thing is I WAS looking only for fall jobs and was keeping their needs as forerunner in my search. Then this new family offered me a great position with the same level of pay I have now (I'm paid far over market)[/quote]

How is $120 for 96hrs well over market? I'm calling serious BS. [/quote]

It's NOT. Hence my point about how they only paid a pittance and why I feel no loyalty. My normal rate, 1dc, is 20$ an hour. Market rate here is 10-11$ an hour, 1dc. Roughly 13$ an hour for 2.[/quote]

So we are to believe that parents are fighting over themselves to steal you away for almost twice the market rate?

I simply don't believe you and I think we've all been wasting our time here.[/quote]

And that is your prerogative to feel that way. But the truth of the matter is, I have marketed myself (rather successfully) as a newborn nanny and new parents want the best for their baby. I cornered that market here and my rates reflect that. 
In two nanny groups I belong to, one fairly good sized and one smaller, there is only one other nanny who enjoys the new baby stage. Nannies like her and I aren't as plentiful in this area. [/quote]

MB here.  I agree with everyone that your MB acted badly by yelling at you.  Of course yelling is never professionally appropriate.

That said, you are showing yourself to be just a really obnoxious terrible person.  You would not be my nanny.

It is not the letting yourself be poached for higher pay, or leaving early.  It is the idea that you are so adamant that the posters here should tell you how great you are and how badly your MB is.  It is how you brag about yourself and how great you are.  Yet one of the things I expect for paying over market is an over market sense of professionalism.  Of going above and beyond.

Of course your MB screwed you if they didn't pay your weekend rate.  But if you felt uncomfortable then, of course you should have started looking and explained why you were leaving.  Even better, you should have agreed up front about the pay for that weekend.

A nanny is a person I interact with perhaps the most every day, and certainly is the person my child interacts with most.  Your negativeness and spitefulness would have no place in my home.  
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