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[quote=Anonymous]I used to have a nanny.

She was ... I would say savvy and manipulative. I'd ask her to wrap a present for my kid's friend's birthday party. She says "Oh, you don't want me to do that. I'm terrible at it. It would look so ugly." But surprise! everything she wrapped in the years after she said that looked just fine.

When she didn't want to do the laundry, she would say "I didn't do it today because I wanted to get tomorrow's laundry done together for you so you have one less day of laundry sitting in the hamper over the weekend." I almost bought that but she also took the kids to McDonalds that day and otherwise did absolutely nothing around the house, no play with kids, no baths, no reading, nothing. I know she just let the day slip by while she literally laid on her butt all day long staring at her phone and ranting about Trump on her FB feed.

If I ask her to organize the kids toys, she would take the entire toy shelf to the basement storage without going through a single thing in it and say "Done!! Anything else you want me to do?" That happened week 2 of her employment and after that happened a few more times, I stopped asking her to organize anything for the years afterwards.

She ran personal errands whenever she wanted (average 3x per week) and each time it was an emergency or some convenient reason she just couldn't let me know about before.

She surfed the phone or the laptop she brought to work for her webs surfing while I made the kids breakfast before I headed off the work because of a migraine or whatever reason every morning(reasons such as that's just her routine and what she always did every morning).

She was with us for years and as you know, kids get older and need less and less help. Her job got easier and easier. She asked for a raise and said her job was getting much harder than when she started. I couldn't believe my ears. That was the straw the broke the camel's back. I fired her.

After she left, I hired a professional organizer to go through the house. Then I hired another nanny who is open to doing more around the house. It cost me a fortune but it was worth it. But I'm not giving a raise to someone who doesn't deserve it.

So think about that when you plot out how you can get by doing as little as possible.[/quote]

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