Received Monday, September 10, 2007
I saw your nanny... She was wearing baggy pants- a short sleeved shirt open - over a t-shirt and has a very short -afro- that is salt and peppery. She doesn't wear make up - and is about 50 years old. In fact when she was walking away, From the back, your nanny looks like a male with her short hair and build. Your little boy was playing with his sister - who sat in the stroller. She was laughing because I could hear her. I don't know what he was doing. The stroller wasn't moving. He had his hands on the stroller and was leaning in to it - but I couldn't see his face. I am guessing that it was making faces. The nanny kept saying, "go on now, get. go play some", but he was fine playing with his sister who looked to be about 9 months. The nanny had with her a NY Post. The little boy had blackish hair, white face with freckles, wide smile and was wearing orange shorts to his knee with lots of zippers and pockets. His tennis shoes were dk. blue and light blue with orange stripes. Maybe Adidas? Looked expensive. The nanny finally said to the little boy, "boy, I'm gonna take this shoe off and smack you with it." I am guessing she was mostly kidding. The real thing that bothered me is that the kids were laughing - but it was distracting the nanny from her ability to read her paper. So she kept sending the boy away. I hate to see that. When he finally went away - the little girl just sat in her stroller looking stoned and sucking on her see through binkie. The stroller was a dark blue Mcclaren - with a net and plaid underpart that had space for bags. And this was on Sunday - at the park in Central Park with the Hippos.
7 comments:
This is a sad story. Maybe the older child was picked up at school and missed his siter?
If your child is young enough to be in a stroller, please have someone pay her a visit to the park she frequents and discreetly observe her. There appears to be an epidemic of young children, older than this little girl who are old enough to be out, walking around and playing but are left strapped tightly in the stroller thereby affording the nanny extended leisure.
Use your cameras!
I agree. People use your cameras when you see something like this. It just makes it easier than all those words. he-he.
In all seriousness, the nannies I see at hippo playground seem to be pretty good.
Ugh. By all means, squelch a sweet moment between children so you can read your rag. That's what you're getting paid for! Oh, wait...
Oh come on people, First of all the nanny was working on a SUNDAY! And what is so wrong about her wanting to read a bit of the newspaper while the children are playing? Good lord, you people act like nannies should be actively entertaining the children for 100% of her 10-12 hour day. Get real.
Sunday? I dont think so. This was posted on Monday at 830 PM.
Sounds like Monday to me.
I honestly think that any job given should be 100%. Especially when its another life.
Nannies are getting paid good money.Why not give the chilren 100%.
Can you imagine a doctor ignoring a patient to read a newspaper? NO! you can't. Not saying nannies are doctors. But these children are little people, and innocent.They just want to be loved. I cannot imagine a nanny treating my daughter that way.
By the way I am a nanny myself and a parent.
First off, the kids should have certainly been allowed to play and laugh with each other without the nanny being annoyed by it.
But seriously, can you imagine a doctor working a 12 hour shift without a bathroom break alone to him or her self? Without being able to follow a thought in their own head for 30 seconds without interruption? Taking the kind of crap attitude from bosses as some of the nannies here obviously get from the clueless a$$hole parents that don't give their own children the time of day? Even with a doctor in the ER certain rules about OT pay and hostile working conditions would apply.
As I said before, any employee in ANY other industry is REQUIRED to take 2 10 minute PAID breaks in an 8 hour shift and a minimum half hour meal break in that time as well. Meaning, WITHOUT working. AND must be paid time and a half or given comp time for any hours worked over 8 in a day or 40 in a week.
Since the nannies obviously can't just clock out and walk away when they're watching kids, they have to take a couple minutes of downtime when possible, and if employers think that's unacceptable job performance, the state DOL would probably have something interesting to say about it.
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