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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]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]

You seem to lack understanding that you were hired to do a job. The employer can choose to outsource whatever she wants. Its not her duty to launder the clothes the kids wore them on the weekend if she decided to hire a nanny to do laundry.

If you don't want the job, you are free to quit. The reason so many of you are angry is that you have this fantasy of a job that requires no work. You don't quit because you know that its difficult to find another job and even harder to find one that requires little work. This should tell you that work is actually work. As a nanny, your job is to make the families life easier not expect the family to do whatever they can to minimize your workload while they are paying you. [/quote]

Obviously you didn't read my whole post. Or you wouldn't have missed this part "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."

You want it to be part of the job duties, THEN ASK FOR IT TO BE while you are in the interview/contract signing process! You cannot say that job duties will be A, B, and C, and then decide later on that you are suddenly going to throw in D, E, F, G, and then maybe H and J as well. That is not what the nanny signed up for, she agreed to A, B, and C. If you find a nanny that will do A-J for you, then great. There are plenty out there that will, and I am actually one of them that DOES for one of my positions since that is what I agreed to do. My other positions, I did NOT agree to do those extras and I am not getting paid the wage that I would be asking for to do all that. So again, if you want something then you have to say something about it beforehand. It is not the MB's right to randomly add stuff to the list of job duties at a later point without discussing it with the nanny first. If you don't ask about it, then it *is* YOUR job duty as the parent to do it (or your duty to hire a housekeeper that will etc).[/quote]

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