Anonymous wrote:No the OP is part of the problem. She shouldn't be bragging that she is "all wrapped up like a package ready to go" 15 minutes before her workday is finished. OP- you will not go far with ANY employer with this attitude. No one wants a nanny who is all ready to leave and bolts out the door the minute you walk in early.

Most employers will send you home early or engage in casual conversation with you. Some may not but this doesn't mean you should start clipping your day. Its incredibly unprofessional.

I agree that she should not have left early without saying something, but honestly if there's nothing to be done for 15 minutes what exactly should she do?? All her tasks were done, and the baby was with mom. What kind of boss gets some sick satisfaction out of watching their employee squirm for 15 minutes because they have nothing to do and are being ignored. When OP said she had nothing to do, the mom picks up her food and leaves the baby with her. Why? Really, wtf is the point of that? Some of you MBs, and your egotistical need to control and dominate someone, are really sick.

No the OP is part of the problem. She shouldn't be bragging that she is "all wrapped up like a package ready to go" 15 minutes before her workday is finished. OP- you will not go far with ANY employer with this attitude. No one wants a nanny who is all ready to leave and bolts out the door the minute you walk in early.

Most employers will send you home early or engage in casual conversation with you. Some may not but this doesn't mean you should start clipping your day. Its incredibly unprofessional.

Good grief! I think it's crazy and unprofessional that you just decided to leave before your end-time. You could have asked first (still unprofessional) or waited until she said you can leave early. Otherwise stay until you are paid to stay. Just because you arrive early has no bearing on what time you leave.

Yikes OP!! The real issue here is not that you wanted to leave early...The issue here is that your boss is a crazy and irrational woman. I'd be out of there in a hot minute.

I don't know your financial situation, but damn...Nothing...NOTHING would make me stay for that type of treatment.

I bet ants get better treatment than that and they get stepped on every day.

Point made.

Anonymous wrote:You should have asked to leave early- sorry!

Of course she should have, but anyone who's been in OP's position knows how awkward that is. And nothing excuses the MB's reaction.

You should have asked to leave early- sorry!

Get there 5 min early or 10 at the most. Why are you there half an hour early??

I am pp and forgot another point... Why are you getting in 20, 30min early? I bet you end up working on those minutes so I in Hell would you go in half an hour early without being paid????? I start work at 8 am. If I'm around at 7:30 you bet I am parking somewhere else close and reading the news for 20 minutes (or whatever else for 20 min)

Assuming you are paid till 5:30, I wouldn't make it an issue about staying till 5:30. Sure it is annoying cause you could get a jump start for your way back home but you agreed to a daily schedule that says your day ends at 5:30 right? You dont get to de decide to leave at 5:15 and just say goodbye. You should've either asked her if it was ok for you to leave, since everything is done or if you really needed to leave then you should've offer her to dock 15min out of your pay because you rather get going "right now". Either way, yes she was a bitch, but you didn't act like a professional nanny either. I am a nanny by the way.

I work for families that LIKE being with their kids, so no I don't have this issue. I show up 10-15 minutes early for handover, and if they get home early and everything is taken care of, no one is watching the clock to make sure I don't leave 10-15 minutes, nor am I watching the clock if they are a few minutes late every now and then. I know this is said a lot on here, but find a new job!

Do you enjoy being treated that way, OP? Obviously not, and you know what you need to do. If she handled it in a different manner, thinking you needed to stay until the end of your shift but also not treating you like scum, then you could possibly work with that. The fact that she thinks you should/demands you to stay to the very end of your shift is one thing, but treating you the way she did is unmanageable. You need to search for a new position right away. Don't try to wait it out to see what happens, you can see what happens while you're searching. I'm sure you'll find something better!

She thinks she owns you. RUN!!!!

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If this is true, please start looking for a new job right away. You don't deserve to be treated like that.

Your MB is a bitch. Start looking and get away from her. Are you paid OT for the extra hour you work everyday?

nanny here: I work from 8:30 to 17:30. I always get to work at 20 to 30 min early. By the end of the day when I have finished everything it is usually 17:15/20. Then I stand there like a package that was ordered and never picked up. Today the mom was eating her dinner while the baby was in the bouncy seat on the table infront of her. She was cooing and talking to her while she ate. Tired of always standing there I decided to give the baby a kiss and go. The mom lost it on me and yelled at me asked me in a very mean voice whether I work until 17:30 or 17:15. I explained to her that I there is nothing for me to do now. The bottles have been washed and sanitized, laundry done, kitchen mopped and living room vacuumed and everything is in it's place. She took her plate to the office and ate there until 17:30. My question to you is does your boss make you stay until the last minute even if there is nothing more for you to do?