Anonymous wrote:Always remember that if your new family needs you right away, you don't need to do the 2 weeks. Your choice can depend on how well they've treated you.

No, you are not legally required to. But 2 weeks is the accepted standard MINIMUM in every industry. If I was looking for a nanny and you offered to quit your current job with no notice, I would not hire you unless it was out of desperation. It shows poor character. A prospective employer is making note of how you treat your current employer, because this is how they will be treated.

Always remember that if your new family needs you right away, you don't need to do the 2 weeks. Your choice can depend on how well they've treated you.

If you are currently employed, it is understandable that you may not want your employer contacted, because you want to have a job lined up before you give notice.

If you are not employed, and do not want your most recent employer contacted, that is a red flag.

Also, I have seen offers (in other industries) be contingent on contacting your current employer. At that point, you have an offer, so contacting your current employer should be okay.

16:45, Do you mean you'll give yourself a rest? How can you go wrong?

The only pretend double standard is from the fool nanny who thinks she should get recommendation letters every 6 months.

Nothing to do with the OP, 14;54.

As for 14:42, she's nothing but a nonsensical, trouble making troll.

Dumb. thread. buried.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/nanny-forum/posts/list/275523.page

How quickly we forget the BS we spout. No double standard my ass.

Anonymous wrote:No, OP, there is no double standard. If you don't want your current employer contacted, no problem. Just have verifiable references to check, like everyone else does in every other profession.

I'm not sure I understand what you're upset about. This is not at all a
n issue worthy of a thread. Unless, of course, you're the trouble making poster everyone is talking about.

No, *I* am the poster everyone wants to talk about. How many of us could there be?
How about this....
Will the real "most talked about poster" please stand up? Please keep talking. If nothing else, it should keep you busy every time you're bored with your child.
In response to your question, you may have missed whatever thread it was where at least one prospective MB insisted that she have the most recent/current ref. Are you sure that was't you?

No, OP, there is no double standard. If you don't want your current employer contacted, no problem. Just have verifiable references to check, like everyone else does in every other profession.

I'm not sure I understand what you're upset about. This is not at all an issue worthy of a thread. Unless, of course, you're the trouble making poster everyone is talking about.

The woman who was discriminated against, won a $250,000. settlement in court.

Check out the link.

Take note, nannies.

Document everything!

You never know......

Of course we have a double standard for nanny. Isn't she supposed to be the magical Mary Poppins? Then again, Mary Poppins didn't much care about anyone else's standards. She always knew with complete certainty, how to do her job.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/292323.page

Found this thread in the main forum and found the responses interesting. We have this discussion in this forum regularly, and the nannies are told how we just don't understand "how it works in the real world" but in a different context everyone acknowledged that its normal and no red flag at all to ask that your current employer not be contacted. Double standard??