to find another Nanny?

[CompletelyHackedOff]

I have had a few issues with my nanny. She looks after my 4mo 3 days a week to give me a break. A few occasions she has helped herself to my expensive coffee, and has even pinched a biscuit or two (I'm sure). I can live with that though, because she is nice.

I have told her that I'm going to be weaning DD soon and would she mind helping with food preparation etc. I've explained that I want everything to be organic and cooked from scratch, absolutly no junk whatsoever. Straight after this conversation she took DD out to the park, we live in the city, so she has to go through some shops on the way, including McDonalds, which she went into WITH MY DD and bought a coffee. Now I know I should be grateful she bought her own instead of pinching mine, but to go in straight after we had had the weaning coversation she takes my DD into McDonalds and exposes her to all that crap, hardly the best example when I'm about to start her on solids is it?!

So I feel my nanny will never understand how important this is to me and maybe I should find some like minded? I'm furiuos with her, and not least because she left the empty cup under the push chair

Didn't we do this one last year?

coffee isnt even expensive...

Can anyone give me some proper advise? Am I really being OTT?

The BEST ones build up over months or years, creating entirely fictitious personalities with which to wind people up. Like Xenia ;)

ladyintheradiator - dripfeed?! If your so convinced I'm a troll why are you still here?!!

Loopy Troll

tbh on a nannies wage McDonals is the best place for a decent coffee.

I think the responses to your original post show you are indeed being totally over the top - you may be sleep deprived, you may be angsting over the fact your baby is growing up, you may be a troll - whatever the reason, your original post came across as you being really rather unreasonable. If you are for real, give your nanny a break - hide your really expensive coffee if you really have to, but just let her get on with doing her job and dont resent the little things.

goingonthetelly, normally yes, but I pay her cash sp she can still claim benefits.

I would phone the police for advice, these are serious allegations.

Thanks ladyintheradiator - I've already responded to that post so perhaps you vcould read that.

thank you dinky stinky. Unfortunately I can't blame sleep deprivation as DH gets up in the night, and sees to her in the morning before he goes to work. I am known to be quite controlling though so maybe I am being over the top.

not remotely interested in this thread but 2 questions:

• was xenia made up?
• and how the hell did I miss that?

I don't know why everyone thinks this is a troll

Sorry OP, ignore the rest of them, I'm ashamed to say I'm a MNers today. Really.

Anyway to hear that your nanny isn't really listening to you? Have you tried docking her wages before?

A friend of mine suggested this to me once after I discovered that nanny had bought a bottle of milk from a supermarket which isn't...well, my cup of tea! hahaha!

I docked her 2 weeks wages and she has never stepped out of line again. Although, strangely I have noticed that most of my hot drinks, made by her, have a "cappuchino" topping.

HTH

the expensive coffee was rubbish, as it were. no-one who has a nanny to get a break would even think about the price of coffee.

I have 2 types of coffee Kopi Luwak 'expensive coffee' and nescafe 'cheaper coffee'. This is why I made the reference. Would not be an issue if she drank the nescafe!!

thank you whoisasking - I'm not sure if you can change someones way of thinking by docking wages though. Maybe I will threaten to grass her up for benefit fraud.

phew. my mn world was in danger of crumbling them. blummin oojimaflip, scaring me like that.

lol

you pay your nanny cash so she can fraudulently claim benefits?

and you say you arent a troll....

why on earth do you have cheap coffee? most odd.

for the staff hatwoman, keep up!! Staff coffeer to go with the staff mugs!

Oh is she on benefits then?

I wasn't aware you were that sort of woman.

bet she steals from you as well as the benefits system...

she's taking more than your coffee and biscuits you know!

CompletelyHackedOff - this is your first time with a nanny isn't it?! You clearly have no idea how it works.