Complaint Against Priscila, Brazilian Nanny

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She took no initiative to be proactive. She spent a great deal of time on her computer and her cell phone, I had a talk with her and let her know my expectations and that I felt it was inappropriate for her to be on her computer while working, as being on her computer was not work related. After our talk she said she understood and would improve. She had been working here since the birth of my son and she knew I had to return to work in the beginning of December. We also had a trip planned that she was to travel with us on of which her tickets and hotel room had been purchased. One week after our talk and one day before our trip she informed me that she was quitting and told me it was not her fault that I was going out of town. I went out of my way to be good to this woman, I paid her for three sick days of which she had not even accrued the time. She really left me in a bad position as I had to return to work with no nanny and I am a single mother. She presents well in the interview and will try to impress you with her knowledge of childhood development, but when you are not in your home she is all together a different person. Comment   >> Posted: Sep 08 '08 by Priscila in Florida, United States I just think that letting her speak about me without replying to her accusations it is not right. I have been a very good nanny for the 4 years and all of my employers liked me alot. In fact my references are very good. This Lady called my references and she only heard good things about me.Also, I am friends of the other families, I keep in touch and share pictures. I do have knowlodge, and she cant deny that! When the baby was born I asked her if she was going to sterilize the bottles, and she told I don't know and I dont care it is your job! She was VERY tired, always... her great excuse for not touching her baby, breast feeding him, or even bathing him. I understand that she had to stay up in the night with him and that makes single parents very tired, but later, she told me she was hiring a nanny to sleep in her apart so she didn't have to wake up for him. She paid me for many extra hours, so she could hang out with her friends and family,boyfriend... she made me participate of her personal life. I used the phone when her child was sleeping, and computer also. newborns sleep alot and I actually had my job done early. I didn't leave him alone, I left him once on the swing buckled, and sleeping. From the time I started working full time, I fed him, bathed, went to the grocerie store, cooked for her dificult recipies... and most of the times the baby was crying while I was cooking and she never showed up to help... in fact she at the last minute decided to take a shower and I had to wait after my time to go. I had to sleep one night there, and I was working from 9 am, so I stopped at 6 and got back to her house at 10pm, I didn't sleep well that night worried, and baby woke up 3 times. She left in the morning and only got home at 8 pm. That day she said, One day this baby is going to call you mom... She always made comments, like, Priscila, you are going to raise this child like you raised the other ones.. I am sorry I don't raise children, parents do it, I fallowed what the parents do and give them suggestions, but I want the children to listen to their parents as they do to me. I was very responsible. If I was so lazy would she be able to trust on me so much?? And leave her baby with me? For almost 24 hours work? She only complained because once her baby was sleeping in his swing, buckled, tight, in the living room, and I went to his bedroon, wich is right at the same room, and I used the phone, wich is a place that I could hear him very well. she also told me that I was not removing the dirty coffee from the coffee machine, and the wipes needed to be replaced before the weekend so she didn't have to do this, and the milk cans needed to be transfered from the babys gabinet door to the kitchens door, wich was 1 foot distance. And what I heard from her is that she was paying me to do that so she expect me to do this. I told her I was going to change but from that day on, I started looking for a new family wich didn't take me any long. Yes she had planed a trip to NYC, because she had a problem there to solve and she decided to take me, the dog and the baby with her, for her to do her things there. It turns out at the day before a holiday, I told her I was quitting, she took that really hard, told me that she didn't know that I was looking for another position, and that she had the trip. I told her, that I was not going to leave her like that, that she could count on me, for the next 2 weeks. At the same night I went to the doc with kdney stones, and I had to tell her. I text message because it was too late. She didn't believe me , and she told me many thing thru my phone, I gave her key back, and I never saw her again. Including that week that she didn't pay me, and I never asked for, and I don't want or need it. I just think that as I could see thru the time I worked there, is that she has the priviledge of living in a fancy apartment on the beach, a very good life,can afford what she wants, so she thought that she was paying me so I needed to do everything... EVERYTHING not hard cleaning, because she had a cleaning lady, but she asked me if I would do it. And get in her little systematic world... Every morning I had to wlak her dog, make coffee, clean her coffee machine and leave coffee for next day so she only needed to hit the button. Then take all the garbage out, clean her kitchen, dishes, make bottles, leave them all ready, most of the time the baby was hungry or wet so I had to be with him and continue my tasks lady, also I had to change him take him out for fresh air,play with him, and go to the grocerie store, bank, post office, again take her dog out, cook from recepies, and everything with her baby, so if I was so lazy why was I doing all of those things? It is so easy to complain, but there is always 2 sides of the story That is all I had to say. This lady