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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Also as an aside, what makes you all think that you're so much more busy than the rest of the world?? I'm busy.[/quote] While you are on the clock for the employer you aren't supposed to be "busy" doing your own thing. Your employer is paying you for set hours. Your employer can change the % of time spent on tasks. Your employer may decide that its fine if you and the kids don't go on an outing every single day so you can do the laundry or clean up the toys from the weekend. Frankly, I doubt any of you give a second thought about missing out on engaging the kids every single second while you are on the clock. You simply don't want to do things that aren't fun but work isn't always fun. [/quote] You are an idiot. The person you quoted was talking about their weekends. The person they were talking about was an MB saying they were busy on the weekends. The PP quoted above said they are busy on weekends as well. Busy has nothing to do with it. I can be busy all weekend long, but any mess I make will sit there until I get around to doing it, whether it be Saturday, Sunday night, or next Thursday. Parents need to realize that it's not like they have hired a housekeeper whose job duties include picking up after their bosses weekends, that it is not the nannies duty to do so. Asking the nanny to do a few little things occasionally that are not child related, or was from the weekend during their off hours is one thing, expecting the nanny to start being a household manager/family assistant/housekeeper in addition to her actual job duties specified during interviews and contract, is not ok! If you want someone that does all that extra stuff, ASK FOR IT before you hire them. Then you will find the ones that are willing to do it, but also will find that many will expect more money for their pay rate, since you are asking for job duties that are not standard to a nanny position. If I am hired to help tidy up the kitchen, I will occasionally empty the dishwasher and put my stuff and kids into it, but I will not load your nasty dishes from the whole weekend, wash the pots and pans by hand, and do this every freaking Monday morning. I will help the kids clean up all week long, but I also expect that the parents should be able to handle cleaning up during the weekends the majority of the time. You clean as you go. If you don't end up spending much time at home, less time playing with the toys, then there will be less of a mess and easier to clean. If you spend all weekend at home and they have the time to take out all the toys, then you have plenty of time to go and pick up some of them throughout the day. The people talking about nannies being lazy and not wanting to do something that is not fun are trying to lie to themselves that they aren't lazy asses themselves. If a nanny does it willingly all week long, she is not lazy. But it IS understandable that she doesn't want to clean up after your kids weekend, when it looks like a tornado hit the house sometime after they left on Friday. That is your duty, stop shirking it![/quote]
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