To think this mother is taking the proverbial?

[adsy]

on a childcare site

About Me

Dedicated Mother of 3 and business professional requiring domestic support my working week can be anything from 9am – 17:30 or on occasions 20:00pm. Essentially supports within in these hours are crucial, along with household support so I am able to have quality time outside of work with the kids.
Personally we are a fun, loving family who enjoy having a laugh and good fun.

My Requirements

Registered Childminder Live In Nanny

Live Out Nanny After School Nanny

Au Pair

Hours Required
Monday – Fridays 14: 30 /15:00 – 19:30
Saturdays 10: 00 – 15:00 pm (possible evenings/ night childcare services)
Sundays (occasional) possibly evenings/ nights childcare services
Most school holidays the ideal candidate will not be required to work, however when required to do so the childcare service will be needed on a full-time basis.
Duties:

1. Childcare services
2. Preparing evening meals and Afro-Caribbean cuisines
3. Laundry – washing and ironing
4. General maintenance of the house keeping the house clean and tidy at all times
5. Weekly spring clean of entire 4/5 bedroom house Provided:

• Modern en-suite accommodation (for free)
• Evening meal inclusive

• Weekly rate of £45 per week

Requirements:

• Natural home-maker
• Enhanced CRB certificate
• Food hygiene certificate
• Childcare qualification
• Ofsted Registered
• Minimum of 2 years Childcare experience
• Good time management skills

Really? £45 per week. is that acceptable?!!

I wo

Ask her to define Afro-Caribbean food as well!

Any update?

I wonder if the school holidays will be paid?

A similarish story, though not quite the sanme...

When I was 18 years old (1996) with no childcare experience at all I answered an advert for a cleaner.

The lady on the phone said she'd already found a cleaner but thought I sounded ever so nice and would I like to do some babysitting and light cleaning day to day.

Most of the time this involved playing with the baby and doing things like folding her husband's clothes (which he left in a pile on the floor) and taking him cups of tea in bed

She wanted to go on a business trip to Germany with her DH so gave me £100 to look after her 8 month old baby for a week.

So I - a random 18 year old with no childcare experience, no qualifications, and no CRB (ok, no convictions, but she had no way of knowing that) - was left in charge of her house and her 8 month old.

I was already living in a house I was paying rent on, so there was no big plus to a weeks rent-free living.

She wants a slave

It's a shame because someone might actually go for this because they're desperate.

This seems very odd - would love to get a service like this for £45 s week but would never be such a knob to post an ad like this .

The fact that I could afford to pay somebody £45 a week to do all that and I myself am on minimum wage says enough!!!

I thought it was for four separate jobs! Even at £245 a week for all that shite I'd be a bit . When, pray tell does she have this quality family time as she seems to be working and/or having the lucky applicant do everything?

Erm, have you seen this thread from 2011?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1192279-To-think-this-is-slave-labour/AllOnOnePage

V strange...

I wonder if she's up for the 'I'm the most evil slave owning cunt in the world' award

I have all kinds of hate for that particular brand of evil

is that an old ad? I'm sure I recognise it.

Strike that, I do. Sparechange linked to the last thread.

I thought the going rate was £100 per week + accommodation and food for an au pair? And an au pair wouldn't have all those qualifications...

Erm, have you seen this thread from 2011?www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1192279-To-think-this-is-slave-labour/AllOnOnePage V strange

That's odd??

The doles 57 a week & housing benefit might cover your accommodation!
Plus that's a lot of work! It'd be completely different to looking after your own house/kids as she probably runs a white glove along the surfaces.
£45!! You only get your evening meal too so it'll not go far at all.

Odd. I wonder if her last slave left and she just reposted her old ad?
Maybe she,s been using the same ad for 30 years and that explains the pay offer!

Surely she'd be advertising in guineas then?

Or shillings, given what a tightwad she seems...

My word. I got £30 per day for childcare as an unqualified 18 year old in 1996! That said it was 3 kids (6,4 and1) who lived in the middle of nowhere strictly no tv. My instructions were 9 hours of "creative play" . This experience very nearly put me off having kids of my own. The eldest now in prison for drug dealing (and they were a naice middle class hippyish family)

How odd, word for word!

Any response yet OP?

I was paid 500 francs a week (so roughly £50) in Paris as an au pair in 1994.

Odd that the ad is the same.

When I was 17 I had a summer job as a waitress (140 miles away from my home). Free board and lodging for six weeks and 64p an hour for waitressing.

One day the owner asked me to babysit her eight year old for the afternoon/evening until her older son got home. So I did. I was paid a £1. Not £1 per hour but £1 for seven hours.

Even for 1979 that was miserly.

Kerala, they should have let the poor sods watch some tv maybe they wouldn't have turned to drugs.

sorry all, she's not even opened my message yet