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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an MB and I think your employers are being obnoxious and overstepping.  You are not on duty when you're not at work and you shouldn't have to be responding to texts all the time.

I've contacted our nanny on occasion when I can't find the lovey and we're having a meltdown at bedtime, or if the kids are really sick and we're not sure she should come to work tomorrow.  Or if she left her phone at the house and might need it.

I think something like that happens perhaps once every other month.  Daily texts after hours are just obnoxious and uncalled for.

I'd try to train them out of expecting a response from you.  Things like "Good morning- I just saw your text from last night, I usually turn my phone off when I'm home w/ my family." or "I tend to have pretty busy evenings and have the ringer off when I'm with friends, at class, out to dinner, reading, watching a show, going to bed early, etc...

Do that enough times and maybe they'll stop.

I'm sorry.  It's obnoxious.[/quote]

Train them?  Her employers are not nice but they aren't dogs to be trained.  All she needs to do is tell them she isn't available to them when she is not on duty, no exceptions.  Tough if you can't find "lovey".  The ONLY allowable reason to contact her is a true emergency and you not being able to find a toy is not an eergency.  If she left her phone at your house, how is she going to read your text.[/quote]

Clearly we are VERY different kinds of bosses.  [/quote]

[b]Well I respect my employees, just as my employer respects me and this means that their time off is sacrosanct.[/b]  Unless it is a fire emergency, I would never contact them when off duty.  Your children are not the responsibility of your nanny when she is off duty.  They, and their problems, petty or real, are your comcern.[/quote]

Yes, I agree, and that was basically my point.  However, a 2 yr old screaming for a lost toy at bedtime qualifies as an emergency for anyone who loves that child.  And an off hours text 4 or 5 times a year is a far, far cry from bosses who text every day.

Get off your high horse.[/quote]

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