Anonymous wrote:I fired ours because she wasn't playing and paying attention to my 2 year old at the playground. On 2 different occasions a neighbor told me she saw her face timing with friends at the playground sitting on a bench for 40 minutes. I decided to go and watch her at the playground and she sat looking at her phone for an hour while my child played alone. DC approached her over and over again and she never got up to play with him until it was time to leave. I walked up to the playground and let her know I had been observing and that we no longer needed her services. Why is it so hard to find a nanny that actually plays with the kids?

Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP with the nanny on video: there was a Facebook post on her FB right at the second of the video. The neighbor has a security camera installed in such a way that you can easily see pretty much entire road. She was driving down our street. The post was a comment about how she can't wait to get off work to get hammered... after I saw the video, I remembered that another mom she babysat for was in her friends... and she was always on FB. Never really texting.

And shoes were in the hallway, but not in anyone's way. No one was tripping on them. It was "unsightly" for her. But I can't begin to describe how messed up in the head that nanny was. She spoke my native language and was a good driver (and as everyone will jump on this, she was Us citizen. There are not that many nannies in this area from my country, and even fewer of them drive, so I was trying to keep her, but for her I was a little girl with no knowledge how to raise kids... and she treated me that way.

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Anonymous wrote:Over 10 years I had 4 nannies.

-- first was mutual separation: we moved from a place reachable by bus/metro to a new house that would require nanny to drive to and she did drive. We were picking her up at metro for 2 weeks, but quickly realized it was just not working. Plus I need driver nanny.
-- second nanny started ok. Then after 4 years she got just too attached to iPhone and repeatedly ignored kids while facebooking. Got fired after texting while driving with kids in the car (neighbor got her on video).
-- third nanny got fired for repeatedly defying our authority, and substituting her own judgment against parents wishes/requests. It was kind of mutual too. One of the arguments was where my husband keeps his shoes in the hallway -- well he can keep that anywhere he pleases, it is his house and hallway was not designated as "baby safe area" anyway.
-- fourth annual is still with us. Probably will let her go in August as the youngest will be in K

Wait, you argued with the nanny about not wanting huge man shoes in the hall way where she or the kids could easily trip and get hurt? Never mind it not being "designated" as a safe area it's a HALLWAY and sometimes babys and kids will run to wherever they want while playing and nanny has to go after them to re direct them. Wtf??? Even if it's his home you all have household employees and kids there during the day and you are quite ridiculous for backing him in this and not simply having your lazy husband keep shoes out of a passageway. Jeesh

How was your neighbor able to film her using her phone while driving without them also using their phone to record while driving? And how do they know she was "texting" and not messing with the gps/directions? And before you say the "neighbor wasn't driving but on the sidewalk" then there's no way they had time to pull out a phone and get to the record option to film this before she was already gone down the road

I'm not the PP, but she could have been texting while at a stoplight and that still wouldn't be OK with me...

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Anonymous wrote:Over 10 years I had 4 nannies.

-- first was mutual separation: we moved from a place reachable by bus/metro to a new house that would require nanny to drive to and she did drive. We were picking her up at metro for 2 weeks, but quickly realized it was just not working. Plus I need driver nanny.
-- second nanny started ok. Then after 4 years she got just too attached to iPhone and repeatedly ignored kids while facebooking. Got fired after texting while driving with kids in the car (neighbor got her on video).
-- third nanny got fired for repeatedly defying our authority, and substituting her own judgment against parents wishes/requests. It was kind of mutual too. One of the arguments was where my husband keeps his shoes in the hallway -- well he can keep that anywhere he pleases, it is his house and hallway was not designated as "baby safe area" anyway.
-- fourth annual is still with us. Probably will let her go in August as the youngest will be in K

Wait, you argued with the nanny about not wanting huge man shoes in the hall way where she or the kids could easily trip and get hurt? Never mind it not being "designated" as a safe area it's a HALLWAY and sometimes babys and kids will run to wherever they want while playing and nanny has to go after them to re direct them. Wtf??? Even if it's his home you all have household employees and kids there during the day and you are quite ridiculous for backing him in this and not simply having your lazy husband keep shoes out of a passageway. Jeesh

How was your neighbor able to film her using her phone while driving without them also using their phone to record while driving? And how do they know she was "texting" and not messing with the gps/directions? And before you say the "neighbor wasn't driving but on the sidewalk" then there's no way they had time to pull out a phone and get to the record option to film this before she was already gone down the road

Anonymous wrote:Over 10 years I had 4 nannies.

-- first was mutual separation: we moved from a place reachable by bus/metro to a new house that would require nanny to drive to and she did drive. We were picking her up at metro for 2 weeks, but quickly realized it was just not working. Plus I need driver nanny.
-- second nanny started ok. Then after 4 years she got just too attached to iPhone and repeatedly ignored kids while facebooking. Got fired after texting while driving with kids in the car (neighbor got her on video).
-- third nanny got fired for repeatedly defying our authority, and substituting her own judgment against parents wishes/requests. It was kind of mutual too. One of the arguments was where my husband keeps his shoes in the hallway -- well he can keep that anywhere he pleases, it is his house and hallway was not designated as "baby safe area" anyway.
-- fourth annual is still with us. Probably will let her go in August as the youngest will be in K

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Anonymous wrote:I've never been fired, but with my first nanny job I was threatened several times for calling in sick (from a stomach flu, I got from them) and not texting my MB essentially while driving (she wanted to know when we left, and when we were 30 minutes away. No stoplights, so I texted when we were closer and I could stop). She was miserable and has gone through 17 nannies since I left in 2012.

I've known nannies who were fired for:

-Repeated improper carseat use
-Falling asleep daily, and neglecting the children.
-Taking too many sick days
- Not finishing daily chores
- Posting negative information about families on social media
- Posting pictures of their NK's without permission on social media
- Giving the children sleep aids before nap
- Refusing to follow the parents wishes
- Spanking
- Asking for a raise
- Asking for overtime, other benefits
- Asking to be paid on the books
-Being late to work due to a car accident
-Telling the child no
-Calling the employer by their first name
- Refusal to wear set uniform
- Refusal to reorganizing the pantry
- Refusal to deep clean refrigerator




There are many legitimate and ridiculous reasons nannies are fired.

Oh wow.
Calling the employer by their first name and the uniform? Good lord people.

Question -- how would parents know if nanny was improperly using car seat?

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Anonymous wrote:I've never been fired, but with my first nanny job I was threatened several times for calling in sick (from a stomach flu, I got from them) and not texting my MB essentially while driving (she wanted to know when we left, and when we were 30 minutes away. No stoplights, so I texted when we were closer and I could stop). She was miserable and has gone through 17 nannies since I left in 2012.

I've known nannies who were fired for:

-Repeated improper carseat use
-Falling asleep daily, and neglecting the children.
-Taking too many sick days
- Not finishing daily chores
- Posting negative information about families on social media
- Posting pictures of their NK's without permission on social media
- Giving the children sleep aids before nap
- Refusing to follow the parents wishes
- Spanking
- Asking for a raise
- Asking for overtime, other benefits
- Asking to be paid on the books
-Being late to work due to a car accident
-Telling the child no
-Calling the employer by their first name
- Refusal to wear set uniform
- Refusal to reorganizing the pantry
- Refusal to deep clean refrigerator




There are many legitimate and ridiculous reasons nannies are fired.

Oh wow.
Calling the employer by their first name and the uniform? Good lord people.

Question -- how would parents know if nanny was improperly using car seat?

Anonymous wrote:I've never been fired, but with my first nanny job I was threatened several times for calling in sick (from a stomach flu, I got from them) and not texting my MB essentially while driving (she wanted to know when we left, and when we were 30 minutes away. No stoplights, so I texted when we were closer and I could stop). She was miserable and has gone through 17 nannies since I left in 2012.

I've known nannies who were fired for:

-Repeated improper carseat use
-Falling asleep daily, and neglecting the children.
-Taking too many sick days
- Not finishing daily chores
- Posting negative information about families on social media
- Posting pictures of their NK's without permission on social media
- Giving the children sleep aids before nap
- Refusing to follow the parents wishes
- Spanking
- Asking for a raise
- Asking for overtime, other benefits
- Asking to be paid on the books
-Being late to work due to a car accident
-Telling the child no
-Calling the employer by their first name
- Refusal to wear set uniform
- Refusal to reorganizing the pantry
- Refusal to deep clean refrigerator




There are many legitimate and ridiculous reasons nannies are fired.

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Anonymous wrote:I stared working as a nanny in 20003 . I worked 4 years with a family . in my second nanny job in 20008 .I got fire after 2 months working for that family because i went to the post office holding the baby in my arms without stroller.

Are you going to tell us why you did this? THere has to be a reason to be reckless? Wre you in a hurry?

I am missing something here... what is reckless about going to the post office carrying a baby vs a baby in the stroller?

Carrying a baby a distance is more dangerous than using a sling, body carrier or stroller.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I stared working as a nanny in 20003 . I worked 4 years with a family . in my second nanny job in 20008 .I got fire after 2 months working for that family because i went to the post office holding the baby in my arms without stroller.

Are you going to tell us why you did this? THere has to be a reason to be reckless? Wre you in a hurry?

I am missing something here... what is reckless about going to the post office carrying a baby vs a baby in the stroller?