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Nuisance Nanny - part 2. The Aftermath.

807 replies

Writerwannabe83 · 13/06/2017 19:37

Sorry for the delay in starting the new thread but blimey, what a nightmare this is turning out to be Sad

I went round there, Mr NDN let me in and showed me through to the living room where Mrs NDN was on the sofa. I smiled at her and went straight in to my apology about swearing at her and how I shouldn't have done it, that I was just angry and frustrated and that I had lost my temper. I said I had simply been confused about the Nanny's behaviour, her excuses, the mixed up stories etc and that I had let myself get too wound up but that I shouldn't have sworn like I did. I was sincere (because I did mean it) and I genuinely thought she would accept my apology but she went mental on me.

She basically ignored what I'd said and launched into me about how unhappy she was about the fact she'd come home to find her Nanny all upset because apparently I'd been threatening and intimidating towards her!!!!!!

Mrs NDN then said that I should be ashamed of myself for upsetting a young woman so much and that if I had any problems with their Nanny then I should be speaking to her and her DH as the employers, not being aggressive towards the Nanny herself which is a complete U-Turn from what she said to me yesterday!!

I started to try and explain about the parking but she brushed me off and said she knew I'd parked across their drive and that the Nanny had simply made an innocent mistake by parking across my drive again as she'd honestly believed I was at work and that my response to park across their drive had been a total overreaction.

I said to Mrs NDN that yesterday she told me that if I had any issues with the Nanny then I was take it up directly with the Nanny, so why now is she having a go at me for having done doing exactly that?!

It was so bizarre!! Yesterday Mrs NDN was throwing her Nanny under the Bus but during her rant at me she was acting as though the Nanny is all pure and wholesome!

Apparently the Nanny has told the NDNs that she needs some time to think about whether she can continue working with them as she no longer feels comfortable working in an environment where she feels vulnerable!!!

It's absolutely crazy!!!!!
I feel like I'm living on another planet.

Mr NDN didn't really say anything, he just sat there whilst his wife ranted at me.

I'm back home now and have been quite tearful about it to DH. I genuinely wasn't aggressive or threatening to the Nanny, I was just being firm. I feel like I'm now the Bad Guy in this situation and the Nanny is the victim. It didn't even occur to me that I might be upsetting the Nanny when I spoke to her before I moved my car.....I didn't think she was the type of person who could get upset....she's been so bloody unbelievable that I thought she'd be too brass necked to feel intimidated by anyone.

I'm just so shocked and this really wasn't what I was expecting.

My DH is furious and I've had to hold him back from going round there himself. He said the Nanny has obviously just turned on the waterworks to the NDN to save her own skin and portray me as the one being in the wrong to take the focus off what she'd done.

I want to believe him, I can imagine the Nanny probably would be that manipulative but it doesn't make me feel any less crap or upset Sad

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TheBrilloPad · 21/06/2017 22:22

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat. Mental!

ohfourfoxache · 21/06/2017 22:39

What the actual fuck Shock

TheSnorkMaidenReturns · 21/06/2017 22:45

Do you think the nanny is on mumsnet and enjoying her hour of fame?

DirtyChaiLatte · 21/06/2017 22:50

I knew it!..... I knew she wasn't the innocent victim MrNDN painted her out to be!

She's a stubborn mare!

Groovester · 21/06/2017 22:56

Unbelievable!

CrikeyPeg · 21/06/2017 23:03

Crikey!! ...quietly checking pop corn and wine stocks Grin

Foxysoxy01 · 21/06/2017 23:08

This is insane! WTF!

rightwhine · 21/06/2017 23:13

Yes I think the nanny is a secret mumsnetter who is sacrificing her employers good neighbour relationships, in order to satisfy this nest of vipers. She's just doing what any self respectful mnetter would do.

Tapandgo · 21/06/2017 23:26

Wow - I'd call the cops and say this is harassment

kali110 · 21/06/2017 23:38

Iv said this, id go to their place of work

emmyrose2000 · 21/06/2017 23:53

You definitely need to escalate this to official channels now. I'm not in the UK so I can't say what that is exactly, but PP have suggested calling the police, or reporting the NDNs for harrassment to their boss.

Really, at this point you don't have anything to lose, because there's no way to have a proper neighbourly relationship with these arseholes from now on. It is true harrassment now, and needs to be treated accordingly.

KeiraKnightleyActsWithHerTeeth · 22/06/2017 00:11

Do you own your house OP? I believe you will have to declare this dispute when you come to sell.

iknowimcoming · 22/06/2017 00:17

I believe it's only an official (I.e. Declarable when you sell your house) dispute if you have written to the council or called the police, verbal arguments are not counted

peekyboo · 22/06/2017 00:25

I think it's time for fish in her exhaust. In fact, fish in all their exhausts. And maybe through their letter box too.
(Can you fingerprint fish?)

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 22/06/2017 00:28

can you fingerprint fish?

Only if they have fish fingers...

peekyboo · 22/06/2017 00:29
Grin
MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 22/06/2017 00:36

Report it to the chief constable? Tell their boss?

Seriously??!! It smacks of "Please sir, your staff are being mean to me!". This is completely unrelated to their professional life and there is absolutely no reason to bring their employer into it in their capacity as the employer.

If (and it's a bloody big if) the op wants to take this further, she should take the same course of action as she would if she was unaware of their occupation.

I have to say that at this stage, although it's annoying, it's really not worth a huge escalation when the NDN may well not have known. Definitely not worth ruining the uneasy truce that took so long to be brokered.

The nanny might be handing in her notice never to be seen again. They might all be fuckwits colluding in their fuckwittery, but I would definitely wait and see for now.

KeiraKnightleyActsWithHerTeeth · 22/06/2017 00:46

I did mean to add, so think twice about contacting their bosses, if just to piss them off, as it could be recognised as a formal complaint.

CouldntMakeThisShitUp · 22/06/2017 02:45

don't let them get away with it - keep banging on their door if they do it again.

Soon they'll be stuck for childcare because they don't pay the nanny enough to put up with this kind of thing.....they will then have the same problem with each successive nanny......until they start acting like decent people.

Or as pp said - get it clamped.
Make this as big an inconvenience for them as they are making it for you.

Justdontgetitatall · 22/06/2017 04:37

May I pls ask for a link to the first thread? Or what it's called pls? Thanks

Justdontgetitatall · 22/06/2017 04:39

Never mind, found it but it's been deleted!

Justdontgetitatall · 22/06/2017 04:41

Don't suppose anyone fancies briefly summarising for me quickly do they? GrinFlowersFlowersFlowers

Shadow666 · 22/06/2017 04:58

I'm actually really glad it was your husband this time. Now it's both of you. Tell them if it happens again you're calling the police. See how they like that. These people aren't your friends. Who gives a fuck what they think.

RebootYourEngine · 22/06/2017 05:06

OP has neighbours who are both police officers. They have a nanny who parks slightly over OPs drive meaning OP has to drive over her path to get out.

Many a word has been said between them and the neighbours have done nothing but push the blame onto everyone else. The mr NDN came round and spoke to OP and OP thought that it was all sorted until nanny parked over the drive again.

MrsTrentReznor · 22/06/2017 06:26

WTF?! Is she hard of thinking?
I hope this isn't round 2.

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