Anonymous
10/16/2015 14:17
Subject: How common is it?
Never. My MB and DB come home early all the time. They go watch tv or play on their iPads. Not kidding. They don't usually come to tell me to go home until it's my time to go exactly. Sometimes a few min late because they don't bother to keep track of time.
Anonymous
10/14/2015 17:07
Subject: Re:How common is it?
Rule of thumb for me is that I go if the parent says they'll see me tomorrow or something similar. Otherwise, I carry on as normal with our day, and when the parent is ready, MB or DB will let me know.
Anonymous
10/14/2015 14:38
Subject: Re:How common is it?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You work when you are being paid to work. You are a nanny and not a teenage babysitter. Do not even think of getting off early just because the parent of your charge comes home. You do your work and continue as if they weren't there.
- signed, a nanny.
Exactly, nice to hear from a nanny who behaves like a professional! You are being paid for the time you are there, and it is not your business what your employer chooses to do with their time. I say this as a MB who does let her nanny off early sometimes, if I get home early and don't feel like I need the time to rest, go to the gym, organize, etc, but that's a bonus not an obligation.
Agree. The MB could be doing other household chores, she'd still the nanny to watch the kid. Why would the nanny get a freebie?
Anonymous
09/28/2015 06:49
Subject: Re:How common is it?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I agree with the PP above. You are not a babysitter. A nanny works whether the parents are home or not. Just do your job and stop sounding like a child. You were commissioned to work from 8 to 6 (or whatever hours were agreed upon) and you work from 8 to 6 regardless of what employer comes back to his/her home.
This is exactly how a person with an inferiority complex speaks.
No. Just a "grown-up".