Anonymous wrote:Using cloth towels in the kitchen or bathroom to dry hands is gross and disgusting, many people drying hands on same towel! Use paper towels and wash your own bath towels.

THIS a thousand times. Not only are we taught this in infectious disease control courses but its also taught in schools to young kids. I wouldn't continue to work in a hoe where I am expected to share towels with the family. They know I don't go for that and started putting paper towels in the bathroom for me. They share towels in the kitchen and there have been instances where my charges will wipe their faces or noses on it after drying their hands on it. GROSS.

But yeah I don't do laundry at all. I am a full-time nanny and my charges go to school 3 hours every morning. During that time I make their lunch and work on lessons and art for them. Anything else falls outside of the realms of my job description. I do my own laundry and cleaning when I get home and Mb does her own laundry here for her family when she gets home. Nannying seems to be the only profession where people are expected and encouraged to be taken advantage of. Crazy. You'd think since your are taking care of actual human beings most parents would let you focus on just that. Creeps.

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Honestly, yes, I admit that just adding in adult bath towels and kitchen linens, which adds up to one extra load of laundry a week, isn't the end of the world and, if I was happier with the way I was treated otherwise, I would just do it without question.

But the fact is, this is just one of many, many things that they regularly ask me to do that is beyond the scope of what was agreed upon in the contract. They are all relatively small things, but collectively, they add a significant amount to my work load each week. We are having our annual review next week and I plan to address these things, and ask for additional compensation for them (or remove them from my duties). I work my butt off for this family, and while I love the children, I do deserve to be properly compensated, and I don't feel that my current pay reflects that.

Thank you for your input.

Completely agree that adding at least one extra load of laundry per week (not in the contract) is out-of-bounds. However, if you've been doing it til now, they aren't likely to want to compensate you for it, but they will most likely want to add it to the contract.

This is OP. Honestly, yes, I admit that just adding in adult bath towels and kitchen linens, which adds up to one extra load of laundry a week, isn't the end of the world and, if I was happier with the way I was treated otherwise, I would just do it without question.

But the fact is, this is just one of many, many things that they regularly ask me to do that is beyond the scope of what was agreed upon in the contract. They are all relatively small things, but collectively, they add a significant amount to my work load each week. We are having our annual review next week and I plan to address these things, and ask for additional compensation for them (or remove them from my duties). I work my butt off for this family, and while I love the children, I do deserve to be properly compensated, and I don't feel that my current pay reflects that.

Thank you for your input.

Anonymous wrote:How lazy are you? We are talking about 20 minutes of extra work per week. You could easily spend 20 minutes less on your cell phone and get that done.

Do you know why I get big bonuses at work and a raise every year? It's not for doing the bare minimum and complaining of something is slightly outside of my job description.

Um... when is she on her cell phone while caring for the kids? Doing laundry while watching kids is not like doing it when you're home alone. It can be a real pain and challenge to carry laundry up or down stairs while you have small kids with you -- almost impossible in some cases. And even if the kid(s) nap, that only provides one small period of the day when she can do the laundry without watching a kid at the same time, and only so many loads can be done during the period. If it's so easy, the MB or DB should be doing it in their evening/weekend free time!

That said, I do think the OP is being a bit nit-picky. If it's not causing you major inconvenience and you like the family, I'd let it go and focus on something more important. You could mention during re-negotiations that you've noticed they want to you to do the towels for everyone, not just the kids, and that you'd like that explicitly written into the contract and compensated, or removed. But I think that could come across as a bit rude, so I wouldn't do it if you want to have a good relationship and like things otherwise.