Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nanny share:

Family 1:
Bonus: $0
Other gifts: $10 gift card to teavana

Family 2:
Bonus: $0
Other gifts: not so much as a merry Christmas

Length of employment: 6 months

They have told me on various occasions how much they love me, how great a job I do, and how they'd be lost without me. They're about to find out just how lost!

entitled much??

Nope. Just would like to be appreciated. I've gone more than the extra mile for these families and quietly tolerated new share growing pains and first time employer gaffs. If they really appreciated me and how patient and flexible I've been, now was the time to show it. They didn't, and I'd rather move on than feel unappreciated and resentful.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will let you know tomorrow ... Last year I got $100 and a dinner at a classy restaurant for my spouse and I where the bill came to $115. I was not happy so come this year I cut my hours - I gave my notice to quit but MB begged me to stay so now I work 2 days for them. I have a feeling she will not give me any bonus or it will be less than a hundred. If she gives me anything less than a hundred I am quitting. All her friends give their nannies a minimum of 3 weeks bonus, I am not asking even for a week's bonus but I want something decent. And No, I don't feel entitled, I just want to feel appreciated.

You do sound really entitled.

Anonymous wrote:2012 Holiday Bonus: $500, $100 LOFT gift card, eleven day Christmas vacation paid
Weekly (net) Pay: $750
Other Holiday Gifts: pictures of children
Length of Time with Family: 2.2 years

They have told me on various occasions how much they love me, how great a job I do, and how they'd be lost without me. They're about to find out just how lost[code]

!entitled much??

Dumb too. A bonus is discrentionary not a contractual part of your compensation. The nit wit nanny will need to go looking for another job every year until she finds one that gives her a bonus. I wonder how many years it will take it to figure out that she would make more money focusing on the regular compensation.

The irony of the whole DCUM nanny hyping about bonues and yearly raises is that the nannies would make more by focusing on the initial starting salary. Long term nannies hit a ceiling and most nannies do 1-3 year stints. An employer's budget is likely the same over those 3 years but employers who do a bonus or plan yearly raises start their hiring salaries lower to factor this in. If they didn't need to do this they would have the ability to offer a higher starting salary and the nanny would end up making more money over the 1-3 year employment time. The compensation would also be guaranteed as long as the nanny is employed.