Anonymous wrote:The military family's nanny sounds like me. I've done things which I wasn't told to do. I am a very neat person and hate seeing anything out of place. My employers would leave things around and tell me not to do them, but I couldn't. I refused to make lunches over a sink of over night pots and pans. Therefore, I would wash them if I had some free time. Sure I could have pile them on the counter and make lunches, then put them back but why? It probably would hurt me more than it would my employers. I grew up very poor, but if you came to our home you wouldn't know that. And you could eat off of our floors without catching a diseases. And to this day I am still the same way. Therefore, family your nanny was probably like me, not being able to stand a messy place. We just can't stay to the scrip it isn't in our DNA like some other nannies, or employers for that matter. We treats everything and wherever we go like the way we carry ourselves......very professionally and neatly.

Anonymous wrote:The military family's nanny sounds like me. I've done things which I wasn't told to do. I am a very neat person and hate seeing anything out of place. My employers would leave things around and tell me not to do them, but I couldn't. I refused to make lunches over a sink of over night pots and pans. Therefore, I would wash them if I had some free time. Sure I could have pile them on the counter and make lunches, then put them back but why? It probably would hurt me more than it would my employers. I grew up very poor, but if you came to our home you wouldn't know that. And you could eat off of our floors without catching a diseases. And to this day I am still the same way. Therefore, family your nanny was probably like me, not being able to stand a messy place. We just can't stay to the scrip it isn't in our DNA like some other nannies or employers for that matter. We treats everything and wherever we go like the way we carry ourselves......very professionally and neatly.

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Every time the Nanny picks up a child development book or periodical, she's still caring for your children. Part of being a professional means always learning more. Professional nannies do this even when they aren't on the clock. But when they do have reading/studying time while at your home, you and your child are the likely beneficiaries. Parents who choose a professional nanny, rather than a warm body, appreciate this clear difference.

Anonymous wrote:We hired a nanny/housekeeper and had ample wonderful candidates. My kids are in preschool and elementary school age level. Everyone either uses or beforecare/aftercare, an au pair or has a nanny who provides childcare, housekeeping and some level of meal preparation. A nanny who will only do one thing but expects to be paid for many hours with little or no work just doesn't fit with families who have kids in scholl 15-30 hours a week. heck the au pairs even do errands and share in family light housekeeping. For infants and young toddlers its more a mix but all the nannies do kid related chores and the majority do other light housekeeping. When our kids were little, it was a huge value having a nanny that did all laundry, grocery trip once a week and some light housekeeping during nap time.

If you don't want to do anything, you have limited options which I understand pisses you off. However, MBs are not going to hire someone who doesn't fit the job just because you feel entitled to a different type of job. I'm sure that there are families out there with a full house staff including a fulltime butler, housekeeper, chef, chauffer, and nanny. These jobs are fewer and you are welcome to search for them. You probably will not get the other perks of feel free to run your errands on the clock with our kids in tow on the way back from activities, sure you can bring your young niece over on a snow day and we'll pick you up and drive you home since we have a SUV, add your own food to the grocery list for your lunch, grandma's in town in next week she drives me nuts so you don't have to come in and you still get paid etc etc.

Its a choice you make but there are trade offs and you limit your opportunities but being unflexible in what you will or will not do. Simple.

Anonymous wrote:If nanny wants to do extra jobs, that fine as long as the kids are still being somehow cared for (nap whatever). But if the extra workload is in the contract, the jobs get done, and the kids get neglected. Not such a bargain.

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Anonymous wrote:So sick of nannies on here trying to do as little as possible and feel entitled to the entire MB paycheck.

It's not a healthy attitude. It's not how you embrace a job. If you want to work hard, earn lots of money, you don't go into "let me make sure I never help MB with any cooking, any cleaning."

I've run into a ton of nannies saying "the kids got older and so they went to a center for socialization" Translation: Nanny was lazy and did the bare minimum so the MB found an alternative without the unpleasantness of firing someone but in effect, kicked the nanny out.

That's what you will become with that attitude.

+1000. I am well regarded at work mainly because I am dependable and people see me as a team player. I would never dream of going to work with the crap attitude of some of these nannies.

And I meant to specify I take on tasks outside of my day to day job all the time because I know it will help my manager out and I am rewarded for it.

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Anonymous wrote:So sick of nannies on here trying to do as little as possible and feel entitled to the entire MB paycheck.

It's not a healthy attitude. It's not how you embrace a job. If you want to work hard, earn lots of money, you don't go into "let me make sure I never help MB with any cooking, any cleaning."

I've run into a ton of nannies saying "the kids got older and so they went to a center for socialization" Translation: Nanny was lazy and did the bare minimum so the MB found an alternative without the unpleasantness of firing someone but in effect, kicked the nanny out.

That's what you will become with that attitude.

+1000. I am well regarded at work mainly because I am dependable and people see me as a team player. I would never dream of going to work with the crap attitude of some of these nannies.

Anonymous wrote:So sick of nannies on here trying to do as little as possible and feel entitled to the entire MB paycheck.

It's not a healthy attitude. It's not how you embrace a job. If you want to work hard, earn lots of money, you don't go into "let me make sure I never help MB with any cooking, any cleaning."

I've run into a ton of nannies saying "the kids got older and so they went to a center for socialization" Translation: Nanny was lazy and did the bare minimum so the MB found an alternative without the unpleasantness of firing someone but in effect, kicked the nanny out.

That's what you will become with that attitude.

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Anonymous wrote:Do not allow parents to bully you into doing everything. Some of them love to say that the nanny needs to do everything. Tell them nannies do children. Housekeepers clean your bathroom. Personal chefs do your cooking. If you want to do all 3 jobs, that adds up to a VERY fat paycheck.

This is very important for nannies to know.