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Adam S 4 months ago

This is basically the same as offering creatives “exposure” and expecting them to work for free

18points

P Peitsch 4 months ago

What about GFY, like right now? But seriously ...

18points

Mike F 4 months ago

That took me a minute, but 👍👍👍

4points

John Dilligaf 4 months ago

Hummm. How about Community Service hours? That's the same as volunteer hours, right? Will you sign off on some of those? Asking for a friend

16points

LaserBrain 4 months ago

This just makes me irate. If you're going to have kids, take care of them and don't try to con some stranger into working for free.

9points

David 4 months ago

Babysitting is not education. Experience, yes. But not education. Though, TBF, suckering in to volunteer babysitting for 25 hrs / week would be an education of sorts.

9points

Angrykitten 4 months ago

This can't be real. I struggle to believe people would be actively looking fur inexperienced care giver for their children

9points

StumblingThroughLife 4 months ago

These peeps want a stranger to look after their kids - like a SAHM, so yes, I can believe this. There is a magazine in the UK called 'The Lady', and it's chock-a-block full of jobs like this.

4points

Michael Largey 4 months ago

Working for these people would definitely be an education.

7points

Susan Schlee 4 months ago

No, I won't get a degree so it's not counting as an "education" in childcare!

5points

Kitty Cat 4 months ago

$10 an hour for 10 hours??? And "volunteer" hours are what, exactly? Good grief.

4points

Glasofruix 4 months ago

Round here 35 hours is a full work week. How do they expect that person to live? Transportation not included i suppose?

3points

Cat Chat 4 months ago

Unlock they have some kind of unpaid internship with the local university (of which I highly doubt), there is no way they can claim any of this as legit. This IS being a nanny, not a beginning for babysitting.

3points

Bryn 4 months ago

"you can count the weekly 25 as education in childcare" that is not how that works./

2points

Laura A Ivett 3 months ago

LMAO, do they honestly think think anyone is going to take them up on this? Clowns.

1point

Lyone Fein 4 months ago

These people are totally out of touch with reality. What college graduates has 25 hours a week to volunteer to be a slave?

1point

Jenny Leverknight 4 months ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

1point

Karen Philpott 4 months ago

No petrol money. $10 an hour. Won't be covering rent or food or anything.

1point

Amy Pontious 4 months ago

Wow

1point

Tom Nitsch 4 months ago

How's that working out for you?

1point

Lisa Boyce 4 months ago

The ones with money are always the cheapest. And are offended your not understanding the opportunity to bask in their greatness.

1point

Dangerous Dave 4 months ago (edited)

‘No Words” is right… I have no words.

1point

Michelle Randazzo 4 months ago

You can make more at fast food in Gavin land.

1point

Cee Mor 4 months ago

they may want to use 25 hours as educational credits but what college will accept them?

1point

Marilyn Holt 4 months ago

rofl

1point

Orysha 4 months ago

🤣🤣🤣

1point

CwtchyMama 4 months ago

Are people that insane

1point

Judit Hajdu 2 months ago

100$ for 10 hours?

0points

Kaitlan Nichols 4 months ago

$100 for each of the 10 hours? Hmm

0points

Charlene Buckner 4 months ago

Keep looking!!

0points

Sub Zero 4 months ago

Is this a total of $1000 for the ten hours ($100 an hour) or $100 total for the 10? Because one seems like a bunch better deal making 52k a year and getting (what I assume is needed in this field) a lot of volunteer hours or credits for completing the course?

0points

Cee Mor 4 months ago

they may choose to use 25 hours as childcare credits but what college will accept them?

0points

Lucky 8969 4 months ago

Legit I pay my partner even tho we're married a portion of my checks since I'm the sole income and they're the SAHP. I couldn't fathom not paying a sitter.

0points

StumblingThroughLife 4 months ago (edited)

Drudge/au pair is what this is. Bloody hell ...

0points

Guy-Incognito 4 months ago

Lol cant half tell this person is some monster in HR by the ad design.

0points

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100 dollars a week? This is 2024, not the 1990’s. Also in mentions “full time” so you’ll be getting like 14 bucks for 8 hours a day. No thanks!😆

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7 hrs / day X (presumably) 5 days a week = 35 hr. So $300 would be 8.57 / hr. I wonder what she IS willing to pay. Presumably even more comical.

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Heather Menard 4 months ago

In other words we want an illegal alien to come be our servant

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Take the job and quit om the first day. Only gotta pay return then.

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300 dollars pro day, you mean, right? Right???

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I don't know what's 1099 is, but being a slave for daily 82 dollars paying your insurances and every other "grown-up" stuff, is sure not a good idea. Not even with the "generous" offer of having yearly 4 days off paid ....

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Dad doesn't work. Umm wtf do you need a nanny for

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Charter school... yep says it all right there. Same trash who votes for people who gut schools and keep child care unaffordable Im sure.

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So, $40 a day to work a split shift with rotating weeks and buy your own car seats?

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Fox with a Dragon Tattoo 4 months ago

This woman is off on her morals. And that poor girl doesn't know her worth

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How do they think people can do all that and pay them for rent on top of that it's bizzarre

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David 4 months ago

For $3/hr you could probably just open a Koolaid stand in your front yard and avoid the commute

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Rae H 4 months ago

Oh no! That’s terrible. I’m sure the babysitter would rather stay home than have the “experience” of going to the family’s choice of destination and having to watch the kids for free. If they’re being this cheap, it’s likely the babysitter would get stuck sharing a hotel room with the kids too.

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Susan Schlee 4 months ago

Nope!

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DumYum 4 months ago (edited)

Reminds me of a conversation I had with my mom. She just turned 90. She said the helper we hired enjoyed taking my mom to museums and the botanical gardens so maybe we should pay less for day trips. My mom is disabled and needs help getting to the toilet, getting in and out of cars, getting food, needs a wheelchair on trips. I said, would you prefer your helper be miserable on the day trips that you request? It’s work. Period. Whether she enjoys it or not. So we continue to pay for helper’s time, admission, gas and food. Because it’s work.

41points

Laura Meghan 4 months ago

I work w disabled individuals. I love going on outings but it’s still work and I expect fair compensation. Just cause you like your job doesn’t mean you should get paid less.😂

17points

Jeanne Brown-Williams 4 months ago

My mom is 90. She is very stuck in 1970s pricing. I was paying a dog walker for her dog $25 a visit and when she found out she threw a fit. She thought it was robbery. She thought my cousin was scamming my niece by charging $700 rent for a 3 bedroom house.

3points

firecrackershrimp 4 months ago

My elderly mom thought people should be helping for nothing because she was old and deserved it .... Definition of a boomer ... Still love her though

1point

Pittsburgh rare 4 months ago

All I can think is people are having children because they're supposed to but don't actually want to raise them. And every expense related to them seems like a burden

25points

Rosgrana 4 months ago

I work with a lot of this type. The OMG, it’s the school holidays and I have to either pay someone to look after my children or actually do it myself! I have to bite my lip not to ask, So, when you decided to have children, who did you think would be caring for them?

13points

𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 4 months ago

This.

5points

Ample Aardvark 4 months ago

I suspect that is the case with a shocking number of parents

3points

LaserBrain 4 months ago

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Weasel Wise 4 months ago

Churches, family, and society, in general. If you haven't noticed, there's a worldwide issue with making childless people (especially women) feel as if they're screwing up and missing out by not breeding like the rest of the herd. You can't possibly be blind to such pressures?!

5points

Anywhere but Here 4 months ago

The thing so many of these nutcases fail to grasp is that even if children are sleeping, and even if you “only” have to care for them for x amount of hours, they’re asking you to be available. That means you are UNavailable for other employment. Y’know, the employment you would actually need to live because there’s not a single rate on this list that approaches a livable wage.

24points

Joshua Russell 4 months ago

Even corporations have failed to grasp this fairly recently (and maybe still do, I don't know). I remember a few years ago walmart used to require people working part time to be available all day every day, so they could be scheduled last minute.

7points

Cat Chat 4 months ago

Almost all of these are basically asking for a full on stay at home parent, without the (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) benefits (although that might eventually be asked of them). A nanny and the random teenage babysitter are NOT the same thing, but these people are expecting both nanny and maid duties for the price of the teenage babysitter. I had many babysitting jobs as a teenager. Most were just a night here and there. But I had a few regular ones, but not one included housework (meals for the child were usually either premade, or minimal, such as sandwiches).

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Savahax 4 months ago

Delusional. Other than that I'm lost for words

6points

Rosgrana 4 months ago

“I signed up to look after my children and my home without getting paid for it at all! What do you mean, you expect a living wage to do it for me, now I’ve decided I don’t want to do it after all?”

5points

Guy-Incognito 4 months ago

People posting these should be sent off to a discount vet to get desexed. Poor kids, parents do not even care they exist.

4points

Hphizzle 4 months ago

When you ask for this stuff at this pay rate, you get what you pay for. Don’t be shocked when they don’t meet all your demands.

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sheshark 4 months ago

Was at the kids museum with my youngest. Got to talking with a woman who was there with a wobbler around the same age as my kiddo while they played. She seemed a little young and gave new mom vibes but what's it to me? If she wants to crouch by her kid with her hands cupped protectively around his head while hes in a tight spot, that's up to her. But it wasn't. She was the nanny. I couldn't fathom being so overprotective, overbearing, yet absent all at once. Poor nanny, poor kid.

2points

Bobbi Ryerse 4 months ago

I made $100.00 per week babysitting two kids M-F for the summer back in 1987!!

2points

Yu Pan 4 months ago

I pay more to my pet sitter than these people pay their nannies.

2points

THE COOL ZACH 4 months ago

I thought the article, or the idea looked familiar, thanks Anony mouse!

2points

Hphizzle 4 months ago

As a former nanny, these are all so laughable and delusional. But I have seen similar on my university’s job boards. I got c**p pay at my first full time gig. But it was still better than these.

1point

Alexandra 4 months ago

This is plain exploitation and I'm not surprised.

1point

DumYum 4 months ago

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1point

Anony Mouse 4 months ago

Yes, this has been reposted dozens of times over the past six months. Still a bad TikTok. Has been discussed to death both here and on other sites.

1point

Laura A Ivett 3 months ago

The poll was wild, 21% of people tried to say that some parents might not realize how unrealistic they are, yea, b******t! Try again.

0points

Lynn Morello 4 months ago

If people want kids they should be willing to be UNEMPLOYED so they can care for their own kids, not to hire a slave to do that work for them

0points

Danish Susanne 4 months ago

What surprised me was all those would be employers asking for someone with a college education but still dumb enough to accept the working conditions and pay, that they offer.

0points

Lyone Fein 4 months ago

These people are all on crack. Do they not see that they are soliciting slaves?

0points

Alexandra 4 months ago

If people are that cheap, wait till they hear what a Norland Nanny's minimum salary is! They will be apoplectic.

0points

Rabbit Lord 4 months ago

I'm not sure which makes me more sad, these "We've got Money but F**k you, it's your duty to help us!" type of people or the "I can't afford more than USD150/week but need a full time nanny" type of people?

0points

L F 4 months ago

Why exactly do people have multiple children, or even one for that matter, if they don't want to care for them!? Don't have them if you don't really want them!

0points

Jeanette Atwell Nash 4 months ago

These parents need an Educated Professional to slap them into Reality that they are being completely inappropriate and it could lead to their child being mistreated because they paid someone without proper knowledge to care for their children. If someone took some of these jobs with the unreasonable expectations... it really is sad if no one can help them to see that they're bargaining with their child's well-being and safety on some level. My children come first, no matter what and it's my responsibility not anyone else's when it comes down to it.

0points

Becca not Becky 4 months ago (edited)

A lot of this stems from the bad economy. A lot of parents that didn't work or didn't do full time now suddenly have to just to make ends meet, and if they live in a place without subsidized childcare, they're in a really tough spot. A single parent earning 50k can't afford to pay a nanny 35k but also can't afford to not work. I'm not saying this justifies all the people in this article, I'm just saying the problem runs a lot deeper than just entitled parents in many cases.

0points

fu yu 4 months ago

These parents sound like horrible people in a nutshell.

0points

Irishwoman abroad 4 months ago

Please tell me that nobody actually answers these terrible ads! I would hate to think of anyone taking these jobs, and being exploited

0points

Molly Frederiksen 4 months ago

When my husband and I were first married we were so broke we'd do anything for extra money. I babysat for a couple where the husband didn't work and just played video games while I watched the kids. I don't remember the pay, I think it was fair but hey why don't you watch your own kids since you are home with them??? Nope world of Warcraft was more important.

0points

Dream 4 months ago

Since this isn't the first time we are seeing this girl, and she goes straight to tik tok every time, she is making more money now off of ads and engagement then she is being a nanny and BP is just helping funnel money to her. I don't even know what to call this: A Nanny Shaming Content Creator? God I hate social media. I get her point and these people are insane but posting them on socials won't change ANY of these people now or in the future when every other real employer does this same thing.

0points

Joshua Russell 4 months ago

I always wonder who these delusional parents are imagining is out there to take these jobs. Like, they're imagining that there are just scads of highly educated rich professionals who somehow have nothing but free time and super low self esteem, so they're desperate to work long hours for peanuts? Or they're expecting to find someone who's in the country illegally they can underpay? Or maybe they're just narcissists who genuinely believe that other people only exist to serve them, and they're perfectly aware that they'd be screwing over anyone they hired under these terms and believe that they're entitled to do so.

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Haley Futch 4 months ago

I've been a preschool teacher and a nanny and I have 2 degrees in education. But people still think less of childcare as a profession because they don't consider it a real job. It's disgusting and very disheartening. I've even been through hell with families that seemed like a good gig at the time because they got comfortable and started treating me unfairly, like I owe them my time. And preschool isn't much better because it's generally more children with a lower starting pay. I'll probably never return to either

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Roland Nijveld 4 months ago

I mean, it are people on normal salary who want someone to watch their kids full time. No one can pay that on a normal salary. Just €250 a week is almost half my salary.

0points

LaserBrain 4 months ago

I just couldn't go through the whole list, it made my blood boil.

0points

Hope Tirendi 4 months ago

You must really hate your kids if your NOT willing to pay a good wage for child care. Then maybe you shouldn't have had any!!!

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DumYum 4 months ago (edited)

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Laura Meghan 4 months ago

I work w disabled individuals. I love going on outings but it’s still work and I expect fair compensation. Just cause you like your job doesn’t mean you should get paid less.😂

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firecrackershrimp 4 months ago

My elderly mom thought people should be helping for nothing because she was old and deserved it .... Definition of a boomer ... Still love her though

1point

Pittsburgh rare 4 months ago

All I can think is people are having children because they're supposed to but don't actually want to raise them. And every expense related to them seems like a burden

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Rosgrana 4 months ago

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𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 4 months ago

This.

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