I wish i could explain this away as a parody, but i nannied for a family who paid me 12 bucks an hour to nanny with “light housekeeping” that turned out to be caring for livestock, gardening, picking up dog shit, peeling wallpaper off their walls, etc. All while watching their 5 kids all under the age of 6 lol. I quit after they started doing “biweekly evaluations”
There’s no way this is real, right?
I think it has to be satire, but very light satire. People are insane like this.
If we put aside the fakeness, anyone who actually tried this is just begging to get robbed, and would deserve it.
No they’ll be ok because you see they keep their cabinets locked.
Lmao even 18$/h would be insane. The rest of it is just high standards, the 18 bucks a day is the big issue here.
You want all those things and true excellence? That’ll be $1,800 a day.
I’m not so sure it’s $18 an hour. I think it’s just $18 a day.
This absolutely cannot be real. Masters Degree plus apparently teaching experience plus materials and food for about 5 (probably 8-10) hours a day. For under $20/day. It’s either fake or she never found anyone, and is blacklisted from the nanny community.
Yeah, looks like satire. Who locks their pantry??
The wife of one of my dad’s cousins. She’s not related to that story, I assure you.
What an amazing coincidence. My cousin’s wife isn’t relevant to this story either.
Everyone’s railing against “the snacks” bit, but no one is talking about the “we do not keep anything like this at home”
And if we did, we lock our cabinets, so that’s completely out of our hands and beyond any of our control apparently.
I recall working with a guy who couldn’t understand why his daughter was paying so much for child care. After probing further, he said he was able to hire a retired widowed school teacher and pay her $100/week as she was living very comfortable off hers and her deceased husband’s pension.
They also provided her with food, a room, and a she was a family friend.
Food and a room is worth a few hundred a week though.
ragebait
99% sure this is a parody, mainly because she only mentions her childrens’ ages in the context of a bachelor’s degree not being enough, but it troubles me that I can’t say I’m 100% sure.
An article on the subject
Yesterday I found an incredibly convincing fake of a ragepost (on Lemmy - couldn’t find it again so sourced it from Facebook). Reverse analyzing the details revealed that the selfies were modified to increase duckface, a pile of cigarettes were added for the narrative, and an accompanying news report screenshot was expertly modified using two different articles and changing many details. I can’t in good faith believe any social media meme after this:
All the selfie captions are fake.
Ooof I normally think I’m good at catching these, but took the bait on this story.
The only thing that seemed slightly off when skimming was her use of a cafe style/glass ashtray on the centre console, which would be completely impractical for someone who is “always smoking in the car”.
incredibly convincing fake of a ragepost
This is considered incredibly convincing?
Thanks for doing the legwork that one got me
I think the post you saw on Lemmy must have gotten removed or deleted. This comment I found seems to be debunking the same post but the link button leads to a blank page. I do wish there was an archive of removed/deleted Fediverse content for reference purposes (with a reasonable level of censorship, such as omitting illegal content and personally identifying information). I think I saw another post on Lemmy of the same misinfo less recently than a day or two ago but I couldn’t find that post.
There are publicly available mod logs at the bottom.
That was fake?!
dammit i ate the onion, now i have to go tell the friends i told.
If your brain doesn’t automatically reject information provided this way (screenshots cobbled together) I’m not sure what to say.
hey at least ill cop to it and do damage control
A good first step heh ;)
yours can be addressing what a smug condescending asswipe you are to well-intentioned folks who don’t think the way you do, for no good reason at all <3
Some of you need to completely get off the internet or at very least take some media training.
I’ll make whatever commentary I want. Don’t like it? Feel free to block me. 👋
It reads like a combination of multiple people’s ridiculous individual requirements wrapped into one listing. Like one person said no spare room, someone else said to bring educational stuff, another is only paying $18 a day, and so on.
So definitely a parody, but I would bet each individual thing is based on someone and maybe slightly exaggerated.
I get the same feeling on this one. I’ve seen serious ones wanting a degree in early childhood development or similar and offer babysitter rates, but I think they went slightly too far on this for it to be taken seriously.
I always remember how stupid and shitty people are. Probably real.
I want to believe.
Are they paying me 18 whole dollars per day or do I need to pay 18 dollars for the privilege of caring for their shits?
Sorry, I can only afford to pay 14 dollars. And I only have one colouring book. However I have three doctorates in biochemistry, child psychology and astrophysics.
Why are you stooping to nanny jobs, then, with that many high end degrees you’re easily qualified to be a bar tender!
No one replying to this post like it’s real is allowed to ever criticize anyone for being gullible ever again
Yeah no way this is real.
Saw your comment and thought “Surely there aren’t many people who think this is real.” Then I scrolled down.
Haha I thought that too. “The cabinets will be locked” is the weirdest part imo. As if people spend hundreds or thousands of dollars installing locks in their own home so they can keep potential nannies out of the snacks.
Uhhh, we got those types in my family. Yup, also rich people.
Honestly I wouldn’t be that surprised if at least some people have done that. The richer people get, the more they hate the concept of sharing. These are the kind of people that would let food rot rather than give it away.
Surely some people have done that. Doesn’t make it not weird af though
Sure but your comment was about it not happening and I’m saying that, weird or not, there’s a high chance at least a few people have done that or something similar.
Not sure why someone downvoted you. The mother of one of my classmates as a child was absolutely psychotic (still is) and she insisted on having locks on every cabinet, not just to keep out the nannies (though I think she paid premium prices for all of her nannies to be Harvard-educated), but to keep out the children, so they couldn’t snack without permission. All of her children got fucked socioemotionally from her insanity.
I read that as locking the cabinets to keep the kids out. So they won’t be able to grab candy or whatever.
Who has locks on their cabinets…?
I have the low cabinets in my kitchen and my fridge door “locked” with these little buckle things because my cat and dog can open them and like to try to steal/destroy things.
Well yes I know about those. Presumably a nanny would be smart enough to open those. All you have to do is push down on them a little, if it’s the same thing I’ve seen
Doubt a nanny with a masters could figure that out. One with doctorate might though.
I dunno, I saw meme on Lemmy about someone getting their PhD in Physics; had to remind themself “the crocodile eats the little number” when it came to < and >.
You all laugh but how many of you are part of hiring teams doing the exact same thing
What… an odd accusation. Maybe it’s different where you are, but I’ve never worked for a company where I had much say in hiring, except if it was an internal hire and someone I knew applied and someone asked me how that person was. I still couldn’t make any choices on requirements and my say only went as far as my boss decided it did, and that was just once in about 25 years of work.
Most of the time we either keep begging for more headcount and hear just maybes, or we get introduced to the new hire for a position we didn’t know was open.
Mean I assume if the hiring team could offer a good salary that’d be part of the offer, so they didn’t have to deal with so many applicants.
Cause not like the team hiring has a choice on what they write, just what they deal with. Everyone is a cog except the person that does sweet fuck all except set up the operation. Which shouldn’t count for nearly as much as it does.
Mean if the hiring team is pocketing a bonus then fuck them too.
I’d pretend I’m interested and haggle with them over the conditions. Just to get them hooked.
You. I like you.
$18 a day
What the fuck economy is she living in
Don’t forget to bring snacks though
Does $4 an hour make it sound better!?
$18 dollars a day for masters degree, snacks and material not included. lol this is true definition of unhinged.
