Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do hate it when MB decides to stay home. I'm on camera all day long so it isn't a matter of her checking up on me - it's the constant interruptions and intrusions into our usual happy routine. The baby cries and she comes in (it is so much worse when the baby wants me to console him and not his mother). The baby laughs and she comes in. The baby is FINALLY happily playing on the mat during tummy-time and she picks him up.

I know I would never accept any position where the mother even occasionally worked from home.

You all flatter yourselves. I have had the same nanny since my child was under 2. Son loves her dearly (as do I) but if there is a problem and both of us are there my kid always always always wants mom over anyone else. I suspect that is true in most every other situation as well.

You're in la-la land. Enjoy!

Anonymous wrote:I do hate it when MB decides to stay home. I'm on camera all day long so it isn't a matter of her checking up on me - it's the constant interruptions and intrusions into our usual happy routine. The baby cries and she comes in (it is so much worse when the baby wants me to console him and not his mother). The baby laughs and she comes in. The baby is FINALLY happily playing on the mat during tummy-time and she picks him up.

I know I would never accept any position where the mother even occasionally worked from home.

You all flatter yourselves. I have had the same nanny since my child was under 2. Son loves her dearly (as do I) but if there is a problem and both of us are there my kid always always always wants mom over anyone else. I suspect that is true in most every other situation as well.

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of mean nannies on this thread. Luckily, most nannies in real life communicate with their MBs so that the occasional work from home day goes smoothly and with mutual respect.

There are far more mean and bitter mommies on this thread -- go back and look at where this thread "turned". It's the "shut up and get back to work" attitude as if by simply being a nanny you abdicate the right to ever lodge any complaint even on an anonymous message board. Everyone else on earth can complain about aspects of their jobs except nannies.

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of mean nannies on this thread. Luckily, most nannies in real life communicate with their MBs so that the occasional work from home day goes smoothly and with mutual respect.

Communication is a 2-way street.

I have never had a job that didn't include a WAH parent. Most of them have been great. They have treated me as a professional who is building a relationship and routine with the kids and have asked me for the best way for them to engage with their kids without throwing off the kids.

I have also had jobs where WAH days were a nightmare. With some parents, you have to do your job as well as you normally do, in front of a boss who wants to believe she can do it better, who in reality cannot, and you have to keep from making it obvious how much more smoothly things go when you are in charge/how much the kids love you. And before you say I am wierdly competitive, let me say that I just want to do my job, but some moms need me to be bonded to my charge every moment they are away, and then have the charge consistently choose mommy over me every time she's there. Not possible.

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Anonymous wrote:Why? Because it's their home and their choice.

You sound like a self-absorbed tween. Now that you're a mommy, it's time to act grown-up and be concerned about what's best for your child.

Here's a hint: CONSISTANCY

If you're going to use caps, check the spelling:

consistency

There are a lot of mean nannies on this thread. Luckily, most nannies in real life communicate with their MBs so that the occasional work from home day goes smoothly and with mutual respect.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I work from home one day a week and sit right at the dining room table specifically so I can watch my kids playing.

The vitriol you all express is horrible.

First, I have read no vitriol at all on this thread.

Second, if you can work from home and watch your children one day a week why do you have a nanny for that day?

I'm not supervising them, I'm looking up from my laptop every 10 minutes or so and watching them play/dance/learn/whatever.

What a creep.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I work from home one day a week and sit right at the dining room table specifically so I can watch my kids playing.

The vitriol you all express is horrible.

First, I have read no vitriol at all on this thread.

Second, if you can work from home and watch your children one day a week why do you have a nanny for that day?

I'm not supervising them, I'm looking up from my laptop every 10 minutes or so and watching them play/dance/learn/whatever.

Anonymous wrote:fyi- if you need your job, I wouldn't complain about it. I have an acquaintance who last week saw her nanny's text complaining that she was working from home and the woman fired her. Not the best reaction, but it happens.

You have to make the choice if you can handle the occasional work from home day, or start looking for another job. My nanny took the kids to the library for a few hours on NY Eve when my husband and I were working from home and cleaning the house. Maybe you should have been creative and done the same if them being home bothered you. It's their house.

A lot of parents don't let the nanny leave the home with the children.

Anonymous wrote:fyi- if you need your job, I wouldn't complain about it. I have an acquaintance who last week saw her nanny's text complaining that she was working from home and the woman fired her. Not the best reaction, but it happens.

You have to make the choice if you can handle the occasional work from home day, or start looking for another job. My nanny took the kids to the library for a few hours on NY Eve when my husband and I were working from home and cleaning the house. Maybe you should have been creative and done the same if them being home bothered you. It's their house.

You are one sad little dog, PP, with serious reading comprehension issues.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:fyi- if you need your job, I wouldn't complain about it. I have an acquaintance who last week saw her nanny's text complaining that she was working from home and the woman fired her. Not the best reaction, but it happens.

You have to make the choice if you can handle the occasional work from home day, or start looking for another job. My nanny took the kids to the library for a few hours on NY Eve when my husband and I were working from home and cleaning the house. Maybe you should have been creative and done the same if them being home bothered you. It's their house.

Yes, Master. I would never whisper a word against my masters.

God, this MB is truly a dick. "fyi-if you need your job, I wouldn't complain about it" And a boring dick at that.

Anonymous wrote:fyi- if you need your job, I wouldn't complain about it. I have an acquaintance who last week saw her nanny's text complaining that she was working from home and the woman fired her. Not the best reaction, but it happens.

You have to make the choice if you can handle the occasional work from home day, or start looking for another job. My nanny took the kids to the library for a few hours on NY Eve when my husband and I were working from home and cleaning the house. Maybe you should have been creative and done the same if them being home bothered you. It's their house.

Yes, Master. I would never whisper a word against my masters.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:fyi- if you need your job, I wouldn't complain about it. I have an acquaintance who last week saw her nanny's text complaining that she was working from home and the woman fired her. Not the best reaction, but it happens.

You have to make the choice if you can handle the occasional work from home day, or start looking for another job. My nanny took the kids to the library for a few hours on NY Eve when my husband and I were working from home and cleaning the house. Maybe you should have been creative and done the same if them being home bothered you. It's their house.

Not OP but where do you see that the OP didn't "handle it"? This is an anonymous nanny board - are we never allowed to express one displeasure with our situations or employers?! Honestly, the MB's comments on this board are always stating the obvious or finding fault where none exists.

And a few hours is NOT the same as trying to keep your consistent routine for an entire 10 hour day!

God, you are truly insufferable. Same parroted language over and over again... "love it or quit".

PS Your acquaintance's nanny won in the above example, btw. Who wants to work for a woman who acts like Kim Jong Un (death to those who speak against the dictator)?

+1 And I am an MB. I love the "it's their house" as if our nannies don't know where they are at any given point in their day.

Not all MB's are alike, PP. I get that working from home is disruptive to both my children and my nanny = thus, I do not do it.

Anonymous wrote:fyi- if you need your job, I wouldn't complain about it. I have an acquaintance who last week saw her nanny's text complaining that she was working from home and the woman fired her. Not the best reaction, but it happens.

You have to make the choice if you can handle the occasional work from home day, or start looking for another job. My nanny took the kids to the library for a few hours on NY Eve when my husband and I were working from home and cleaning the house. Maybe you should have been creative and done the same if them being home bothered you. It's their house.

Not OP but where do you see that the OP didn't "handle it"? This is an anonymous nanny board - are we never allowed to express one displeasure with our situations or employers?! Honestly, the MB's comments on this board are always stating the obvious or finding fault where none exists.

And a few hours is NOT the same as trying to keep your consistent routine for an entire 10 hour day!

God, you are truly insufferable. Same parroted language over and over again... "love it or quit".

PS Your acquaintance's nanny won in the above example, btw. Who wants to work for a woman who acts like Kim Jong Un (death to those who speak against the dictator)?

fyi- if you need your job, I wouldn't complain about it. I have an acquaintance who last week saw her nanny's text complaining that she was working from home and the woman fired her. Not the best reaction, but it happens.

You have to make the choice if you can handle the occasional work from home day, or start looking for another job. My nanny took the kids to the library for a few hours on NY Eve when my husband and I were working from home and cleaning the house. Maybe you should have been creative and done the same if them being home bothered you. It's their house.