Received Thursday, October 19, 2006
Saw this just yesterday at the Jack in the Box on Mission Street. One nanny who I would guess was Puerto Rican based on her accent. She wore a yellow t-shirt, olive green pants and black tennis shoes. She had a little boy with her who was in the neighborhood of three and they were sitting at the table next to us. The nanny had an angry look on her face the whole time. She had an argument on her cell phone with someone when she sat down with the child. Then she got up to order and left the child at the table. Then she sits down. He got a hamburger with catsup and said "but there's catsup" on it. She huffed and grabbed the burger and using her dirty finger just swiped the catsup off the bun. The catsup glob that remained on her finger, she flung AT the child. And not in a funny way. The boy said "hey". I give him credit because he tried to sound happy with it. She said back "hey yourself". They sat eating in silence EXCEPT when her cell phone rang. And guess what, it was you. How do I know this? She didn't swear or shout in the phone. She spoke in a kind and gentle voice. And that 30 second conversation was the only time I heard that voice. The boy asked her "what can we do later" and she made some lame remark like "I don't know what you can do later, but I aint doin nothing". If she was trying to be funny, it was not funny. When the child had to go to use the restroom, she told him to "go one now" but didn't even glance in his direction. When my daughter turned around to say hi to the little boy, the nanny screeched at the boy (who had said nothing), "you leave that girl alone now and eat your food". Is this harshness necessary? I am guessing this is what a 400 dollars a week gets you in the nanny world. No thank you!
If she can turn it on to talk so nicely to you, why not for your child? Because she doesn't think she is being watched, right? Wrong.
9 comments:
She sounds like a bad nanny.. do you think it was b/c she was "Puerto Rican" or just a bad nanny? Or do you think she's bad with kids b/c she's "Puerto Rican'
This website is racist!!!!
OP I am identifying the nanny for the parent. Do you want a physical description? Because that WOULD NOT BE KIND. No one needs to be ashamed of their accent! What else can I tell you about her? Her skin was pock marked. Her hair was bushy. Something was wrong with her teeth, chipped, missing or something. She spoke with a clenched jaw. Let me think, what else? Had a wrinkle between her eyebrows that one gets from making the constant angry face. She wore a yellow t-shirt. Wait I said, that. Do you want me to hypothesize the cost? How can I describe someone physically if I am not allowed to say that they are fat, white or pock marked???
Do tell? Until we have all childcare workers magnetized and can run a scanner over their foreheads to get their bar scan code. This will do. Any other questions? My concern wasn't for the mean nanny but for the child.
What is your concern for? I don't get it.
Yeah! That's tellin' it like it is... poster. Good on you.
Well, I'm white and have a couple of pock marks from a very ancient case of chicken pox. If I were ever to mistreat a child, I'd want my description, warts and all, color, etc. becaused that's how you ID a person. Race.. is just one aspect of the picture. Racist website? Poo!
LIBERALS ARE RUINING AMERICA. THE SAD THING IS THEY CANNOT EVEN FORM A COGNITIVE THOUGHT. DAMN YOU LIBERALS. STEP AWAY FROM THE TREE YOU WANNA HUG GET REAL!
What does liberal have to do with this posting or any of the comments? Are you insinuating that the person who accused the poster of racism is liberal? On what basis?
Rightwing nuts scream, even on message boards, and are ignorant, selfish and usually wrong. They're great at schoolyard bullying and name-calling while their ignorance, selfishness and wrongness drive the country and world into ruin.
You'll be looking to hug a tree when the oceans start swallowing the coasts.
Tree Nut,
You are doing nothing for making the case for not bashing liberals.
Bow out gracefully.
Um, take it outside you two.
This is for parents and those concerned about kids.
No one here cares about any kind of view on politics in the scope of this blog.
From what I see, it is for people who see kids being mistreated by those who have been entrusted with their care.
While most of the behavior is rude and shocking, most times it doesn't warrent call to the Child Protective Services, but the nanny should get shit-canned immediately.
Some of us need to hire people to watch our kids when we can't for whatever reason. We trust the most important part of our lives to strangers in some instances, and read this blog, either in morbid fascination or in thanks for having a much better arrangement, or recognize our nanny.
Tree huggers and Right-Wingeres Racists and Liberals all share one thing: they care for their young.
So,
let's try to stay focused on the topic at hand.
Why Puerto Rican? was her nationality tattoed on her forehead for an ignorant person like you can see it?
If you are going to describe someone, you should learn how to do it.
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