Anonymous wrote:Quit if you don't like the job it's a free country. The grandparents are old (hopefully older than you) and they are "lazy" because hello old age! When our parents/ILs are visiting, we ask nanny to come later and leave earlier and its a win-win for everyone. Nanny gets a shorter workday ~6 hours for the same pay and gparents get to spend quality time with grandkids so they appreciate nanny more when she comes to take over.

Anonymous wrote:From the perspective of a nanny employer, I am quite surprised at these responses. Our children are teenagers, and we have worked with the same nannies since our first was born. She is extraordinary and we are very grateful to be working with her.

From the employer perspective, I work in an office in which, there are cameras that track and record my location. I also have gone through of time where I work mostly alone, and then periods of time where, expectedly or unexpectedly, there are others in my close environment. I just simply do my job. If someone is watching me, I just don’t care. If someone is making a different choice as to how they run their part of the business, not my business I don’t care. I just do my job. I feel like a nanny. Office is their employers home. in the workplace, other than private locations, such as restrooms, employers now generally have cameras. Also, we all have situations in which we wish our bosses, or people who are unexpectedly in our spaces, wouldn’t be there. But I really don’t understand why nannies seem to think that, They are exempt from cameras and others in the room, while that is quite common in any other workplace. I’m guessing maybe nannies don’t realize this if they haven’t had other work experience?

I am a relatively senior executive in my office. I am also aware that , my badge tracks my general whereabouts and that cameras film my location to a large extent. That’s just the world. And that is where many employers are coming from. You may be thinking that, because you are in a person’s home as your place of work that you should expect more privacy and less oversight. I would suggest the contract, that if you are in the private space of your employers, that they would expect greater visibility into what happens in their home.

We have a lot of people in outside of our house, our children’s nanny, people working on the house, lots of visitors and also caregivers for my disabled father. From my view, it is not at all unreasonable to want to have a view a public basis. I don’t generally look at them, and I am very clear with everyone that cameras exist, I don’t see it as any different from the expectations and other workplaces.

Anonymous wrote:Not all Indians grew up in India or have grandparents visiting.

Sounds like you need to ask questions upfront to ensure you know what you’re signing up for before taking the job.

Anonymous wrote:When our parents/ILs are visiting, we ask nanny to come later and leave earlier and its a win-win for everyone. Nanny gets a shorter workday ~6 hours for the same pay and gparents get to spend quality time with grandkids so they appreciate nanny more when she comes to take over.

Anonymous wrote:Quit if you don't like the job it's a free country. The grandparents are old (hopefully older than you) and they are "lazy" because hello old age! When our parents/ILs are visiting, we ask nanny to come later and leave earlier and its a win-win for everyone. Nanny gets a shorter workday ~6 hours for the same pay and gparents get to spend quality time with grandkids so they appreciate nanny more when she comes to take over.