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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=nannydebsays]I am really truly not sure how my last post on 1/21 at around 19:30 is indicating that I think no one should ever help with anything.

"[b]Yes, your Nanny has the right to decline additional duties.[/b] And you have the right to fire her for being stupid and shortsighted enough to refuse to help with child's laundry.

You: Nanny, I need you to take the time to spot treat and soak stained clothes.

Nanny: I don't want to do that.

You: (as soon as you have alternate care) Nanny, I am letting you go
a) because you are not fulfilling the terms of our work agreement that states you help with child laundry.
OR
b) because you are unwilling to add minor help with child's laundry to your duties.
Today is your last day.

No one is forcing anyone to retain the services of a Nanny too lazy to assist with laundry or anything else. YOU define the job parameters, and YOU are responsible for hiring someone willing to fulfill those duties."

Sincerely, Puzzled Nanny who has always and forever done kid laundry because it's a part of the job of being a nanny.

P.S. You might all fall over if you knew what my list of duties entails. So I find your collective crazy pretty hysterical. :-)[/quote]

This is the issue we collectively think is ridiculous.  That treating a stain on your charge's clothes made when you, the nanny, were feeding him is an additional duty.  Any more than cleaning up food he dropped on the floor when you were feeding him is considered an additional duty!

I'm sorry you cannot see that your statement is simply wrong and stop being so defensive.  [/quote]

Good grief you all are crazy and not so bright. Reading comprehension ladies. Work on it.

All that nannydeb was saying is that OPs nanny has the RIGHT to refuse anything not laid out in her contract. Nowhere did she say that she should, nowhere did she say OP was asking something out of line, and she even indicated that OP had every right to decide that this rigid nanny isn't for her.  And I think we can all agree that OPs nanny is rigid and stupid.

A further example would be that many nanny contracts do not include dishes as a duty. I could certainly refuse to wash a single dish if I wanted to be a jerk, and that is my right in this lovely free country, where we are all free to be assholes and idiots. I however don't mind cleaning the dishes while I'm cleaning up lunch for the children, and because of that attitude I have a very flexible relationship with my nanny family.

Laundry is outside of this nanny's contract and she can refuse to do anything she damn well pleases. And OP can fire her ass. Lay off of nannydeb. [/quote]

Not PP but now you are being stunningly defensive and childish with your ridiculous name calling.  No one has reading comprehension issues, Angel.

I agree 100% with the earlier poster who said that if cleaning up spilled food from the floor (that your charge dropped while you were feeding him) wasn't a part of the nanny's contract, she would still be expected to do it.  Same with treating stains on the child's clothes that were made when you were feeding him.  It is COMMON SENSE.

For God's sake, just admit that you are wrong and get on with your life and careers!!!  You are both wrong on this.  [/quote]

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