Anonymous wrote:

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Hint:
No one doubles their workload for a 5% raise, or even a 13% raise. Not every nanny is that stupid, but you are right. Some of them are.

It's not a double workload unless she works double the time.

Speak for yourself.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Hint:
No one doubles their workload for a 5% raise, or even a 13% raise. Not every nanny is that stupid, but you are right. Some of them are.

It's not a double workload unless she works double the time.

Anonymous wrote:
Hint:
No one doubles their workload for a 5% raise, or even a 13% raise. Not every nanny is that stupid, but you are right. Some of them are.

"Nickled and Dimed" may be a good read for some of you.

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How the nanny budgets and supports herself isn't the employer's business! The nanny's personal life is just that, personal.

...except everytime you have to find a new nanny (for whatever reason), your child's stability gets sacrificed. And that's your problem.

Nice try, but, as usual, you're wrong. We've had the same nanny for five years. I respect her boundaries and would never treat her like a child and mind her personal business, financial or otherwise. I employ an adult.

You might be more successful in life if you acted similarly.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't know what the PP is on about...we had a great nanny with nearly 20 yrs of experience, and she was happy at $15/hr.

So she was 40 or 50 years old. Who was supporting her at that age?

I presume she was supporting herself, and at 50 years of age, I expect her to be financially literate enough to know how much to charge and how to budget.

You are 10:13? I think not. Otherwise you'd know if she was supporting herself on your 15/hr., or not.

I AM the 10:13, and I have no idea how she budgeted her money; she set her own rates that I found satisfactory, and that was the end of that. Again, I expect her to be financially literate enough to know how much she'd like to charge.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How the nanny budgets and supports herself isn't the employer's business! The nanny's personal life is just that, personal.

...except everytime you have to find a new nanny (for whatever reason), your child's stability gets sacrificed. And that's your problem.

No one twisted the nanny's arm behind her back and made her state her rates are $15/hr. She's a free woman; she sets her own rates. If she found the too low, she was free to ask for more. Why look for villains where none exist?