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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I doubt we're going to feel sorry for an MD, or other typically highly paid worker without certain benefits.[/quote]

But these are the people who can afford to pay your salary, and, as the PP said, continue to pay it even when she's home on maternity leave. You need rich people, or you work at a daycare. I don't understand how you keep getting employed when the resentment you feel toward people who can afford your salary oozes out of every post.[/quote]
I resent the wealthy employers who nickle and dime the nanny at every opportunity. A nanny told me her employer of three years, formally makes her "justify" her COL raise every year, yet they can't throw the money fast enough at their spoiled rotten kids. I saw it.

I am blessed to have employers who shower me with generosity and thoughtfulness. They respect me and teach their child to do the same.

So you must understand, PP, my world doesn't revolve around me and the fact that I already have everything I need. After all, I see so many other hard-working nannies who can't afford basic necessities which you and I may take for granted.

Don't you see them too? I sincerely hope that your nanny isn't one of them. I hope to God you aren't the nasty parent on this forum screaming about how easily replaceable every nanny is. Because a long term primary caregiver, is in fact, never "replaceable."[/quote]

I'm not the PP but I am the MB MD who posted earlier.  Like you, I also resent wealthy employers who nickle and dime any employee, whether that's the nanny or gardener or whoever else they employ.  But I'm not one of those people and what I resent is also nannies who assume I am.  I don't really know you but I actually think you are probably a reasonable person in real life who has seen other people mistreated by employers so when you have an inkling that someone else is you fight back.

I didn't say it in my previous post because it wasn't really relevant but since you have made assumptions I am going to correct them.  Just because I am an MD doesn't make me "wealthy."  I actually make less than we pay the nanny.  I work because if I stopped now, I'd never be able to go back when my children are grown.  It's a decision I made so I'm not asking for sympathy.  We decided to make childcare our priority now but that means we aren't saving any money for the future, for our children's education etc.  DH's car is on it's very last leg (and has been for some time) but we are nursing it along because we can't afford a new one.  We can't buy a house because we can't save enough money for a down payment.  We haven't taken a vacation in years because we are trying to save whatever little bit we can.  My point in saying this is that despite all of this we still paid the nanny while I was on maternity leave because it was the right thing to do but it bothers me that people would complain that because I can afford a nanny I should be able to afford to pay her if she went on maternity leave.  Or, because I am an MD I am obviously wealthy and should be able to pay both the nannies salary and a backup nanny while she goes on maternity leave.[/quote]

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