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Anonymous wrote:Horrible family. They hired you for childcare, not housekeeping (unless just for the child.) You simply should not do the extra chores. Please show them your child care contract. Tell them your housekeeping rate is another $20 per hour. That might be just one hour per day, possibly 2. Tell them that.

My sister is a nanny to 3 kids for $32 an hour and ZERO housekeeping. She made that clear from the beginning. She is mature and not afraid to speak up and the host family appreciates that (she is s former elementary school teacher). You will need to renegotiate the contract , especially if you plan on staying when the new baby comes. Tell them there is simply no time for housework and your new rate is $25 per hour for the 2 kids. You are not slave labor.

$32 an hour and zero housekeeping is absurd.

+1. How do you prepare meals without doing dishes? How about emptying a full diaper pail? Laundering the children’s clothes?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Horrible family. They hired you for childcare, not housekeeping (unless just for the child.) You simply should not do the extra chores. Please show them your child care contract. Tell them your housekeeping rate is another $20 per hour. That might be just one hour per day, possibly 2. Tell them that.

My sister is a nanny to 3 kids for $32 an hour and ZERO housekeeping. She made that clear from the beginning. She is mature and not afraid to speak up and the host family appreciates that (she is s former elementary school teacher). You will need to renegotiate the contract , especially if you plan on staying when the new baby comes. Tell them there is simply no time for housework and your new rate is $25 per hour for the 2 kids. You are not slave labor.

$32 an hour and zero housekeeping is absurd.

You must not have kids bc 3 kids is a lot of work.

Anonymous wrote:Horrible family. They hired you for childcare, not housekeeping (unless just for the child.) You simply should not do the extra chores. Please show them your child care contract. Tell them your housekeeping rate is another $20 per hour. That might be just one hour per day, possibly 2. Tell them that.

My sister is a nanny to 3 kids for $32 an hour and ZERO housekeeping. She made that clear from the beginning. She is mature and not afraid to speak up and the host family appreciates that (she is s former elementary school teacher). You will need to renegotiate the contract , especially if you plan on staying when the new baby comes. Tell them there is simply no time for housework and your new rate is $25 per hour for the 2 kids. You are not slave labor.

$32 an hour and zero housekeeping is absurd.

Yes, way.

Anonymous wrote:I could not continue working for a family that added chore after chore w/out raising my pay.

Clearly your Nanny family has very little integrity + respect for you which would seal the deal for me.

Wait until your final check clears -
Then quit.

I would be so angry that I wouldn’t even give these people any notice, however if I really needed a job I could try to suck it up for two weeks.

But it would be a bad idea in general to stick w/a family who would disregard all that you do for them by taking FULL advantage of you as described.

Good luck.

$5 dollars raise,no way....

I would approach this as a conversation about the scope of the job with a second baby coming. You're in a perfect place to do that appropriately and to simultaneously address the job creep.

"Jane and Bob, can we talk about your expectations when the second baby comes? " See what they say. Be prepared with language like:

- I'm really excited about the new baby but it will change the job significantly so what I wanted to see what you were thinking in terms of my rate, the scope of work, revising our contract, etc...

- One thing that has happened over the past year is that I've slowly expanded my responsibilities to include.... I have two concerns, one is that it probably won't be realistic for me to continue doing those things when the baby arrives, and also I feel that they were tasks that were fairly significantly outside the scope of the contract so if you wanted me to continue trying to do everything I would ask for consideration of that in my compensation.

- I really enjoy working with all of you, and therefore have hesitated to raise any of these concerns, but I really appreciate that you treat this job professionally, use a contract, etc... so I wanted to be professional in my approach to this conversation also, and to ask for this discussion before the baby comes.

Good luck OP.

Horrible family. They hired you for childcare, not housekeeping (unless just for the child.) You simply should not do the extra chores. Please show them your child care contract. Tell them your housekeeping rate is another $20 per hour. That might be just one hour per day, possibly 2. Tell them that.

My sister is a nanny to 3 kids for $32 an hour and ZERO housekeeping. She made that clear from the beginning. She is mature and not afraid to speak up and the host family appreciates that (she is s former elementary school teacher). You will need to renegotiate the contract , especially if you plan on staying when the new baby comes. Tell them there is simply no time for housework and your new rate is $25 per hour for the 2 kids. You are not slave labor.

Anonymous wrote:Blame the victim!!

Sure OP should have said something in the beginning, but why are the last two responses fully blaming her??!

All the blame should be aimed at this unethical family who clearly are trying to stretch their dollar at her expense.

Bc Op is an adult. She is fully capable of standing up for herself. If she feels she is being treated unfairly, then you know what adults do, they speak up. Op has no one to blame but herself. Her employers suck but she let them take advantage of her. Grow a voice Op and decide what you are worth. If you want more money ask for it but, also be prepared for your sh*tty employers to fire you.

Anonymous wrote:Blame the victim!!

Sure OP should have said something in the beginning, but why are the last two responses fully blaming her??!

All the blame should be aimed at this unethical family who clearly are trying to stretch their dollar at her expense.

OP asked how to negotiate. I told her that I would have asked if THEY wanted to negotiate. I’m not blaming her, I’m answering the question.

Blame the victim!!

Sure OP should have said something in the beginning, but why are the last two responses fully blaming her??!

All the blame should be aimed at this unethical family who clearly are trying to stretch their dollar at her expense.

Each time they added something, I would have pulled out my contract and asked if they wanted to stick to it or renegotiate. I also have pay raises built in for the addition of children, since it could feasibly happen between contract signings.

Stick with them until baby is born and DONT do all these extra tasks and ask for a raise $2-3 more an hour.
But my advice would be to quit. Clearly you didn’t speak up when they were adding these chores so you seem to be a doormat and can’t speak up for herself. My old NF did the same thing to me and I ended up finding another non nannying job.

I could not continue working for a family that added chore after chore w/out raising my pay.

Clearly your Nanny family has very little integrity + respect for you which would seal the deal for me.

Wait until your final check clears -
Then quit.

I would be so angry that I wouldn’t even give these people any notice, however if I really needed a job I could try to suck it up for two weeks.

But it would be a bad idea in general to stick w/a family who would disregard all that you do for them by taking FULL advantage of you as described.

Good luck.

I would expect at least a $5 increase just for the addition of a newborn. You just won’t have time to do their housekeeping on top of caring for the baby and the toddler.
They’re clearly taking advantage of you. Perhaps look around for different opportunities. You have spoiled this family.

Hi all. I've been nannying for this family for almost a year. My original tasks were taking care of the child obviously and all child related chores. Since then, cleaning the kitchen (dishes, countertops, floors, etc), laundry not related to the child (mostly socks and towels), living room (vacuuming and straightening up not related to the child) have veeeery slowly creeped in to my day as requested by the parents. I am paid well for one child, $20/hr, but I'm paid on the books at their request (rare in our area) and I would not have accepted the position with all these additional tasks at that rate. What do you think would be an appropriate ask when our contract is up? What would you be willing to pay for these services? They'll also have another baby in June and 2 year old won't be starting school, so that should play a role in negotiating as well.