I saw nanny's employer

Wall Street Journal Mention of 'I saw Nanny's Employer'

2007-01-31T09:21:00.000-08:00

WSJ(1/12) WEEKEND JOURNAL: The Snoop Next Door

Dow Jones International News Service via Dow Jones
(From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL)
By Jennifer Saranow

Posting a snarky message online is often safer than confronting bad
behaviormface to face. "You never know how people are going to react in person,"
says Scott Terry, 32, who works in advertising in Chicago. Last spring, he
posted a photo on Flickr of a "cell phone bus yapper" who disrupted his morning
commute.
The caption: "Can't you use your inside voice?"

For others, posting can be revenge enough. In April, Grace Davis, 51,
a stay-at-home mom in Santa Cruz, Calif., captured a "pushy customer"
wearing a Hermes-like scarf and black sunglasses while ordering around sales
people at Molinari Delicatessen in San Francisco with words like "gimme." Ms.
Davis posted the photo online and wrote "Not nice! No fresh Molinari raviolis for
you, madam" over the woman's face. "I can just happily walk away," says Ms. Davis,
"because as we say in New Age Santa Cruz, 'It's out in the universe now.'"

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Trivial Pursuits

Many Web sites -- some general, some specific -- catalog everyday
misdeeds
committed by average people. Here is a sampling:

TRANSGRESSION: Bad driving
SITES: PlateWire.com AboveAverageDriver.com Irate-Driver.com
BadDriving.com
COMMENTS: On these sites, users can report bad drivers and cite
license
plate numbers. At some, people can also report good drivers, though far
fewer do so. At least eight PlateWire users have chastised themselves
online, including one in Nevada last month who apologized for cutting
another driver off in a post titled "Telling on Myself."

TRANSGRESSION: Bad or illegal parking
SITES: MyBikelane.com Caughtya.org youparklikeana -- hole.com
COMMENTS: Parking on the sidewalk, taking up two spaces, cramping in
another driver -- they're all there. IParkLikeAnIdiot.com doesn't show
many
photos, but it says it sold about 30,000 bumper stickers displaying the
site
address last year, up from 10,000 in 2005.

TRANSGRESSION: Leaving dog droppings
SITES: Flickr.com YouTube.com
COMMENTS: Photos and videos on the two sites have captions like "bad
owner." One YouTube chronicle, "a nice doggy's bad owner leaves a
landmine
on Dean Street in Brooklyn," has been viewed nearly 1,300 times since
it

went up in April.

TRANSGRESSION: Leering, whistling at women
SITES: HollaBackNYC.com and other HollaBack sites
COMMENTS: Women can post pictures and videos of men who leer or make
comments like "hey baby, wanna make love??!!" HollaBackNYC.com launched
in
2005, inspired by one woman who photographed a lewd man on the subway.
Now,
there are at least 14 other local sites in the U.S. and Canada.

TRANSGRESSION: Littering
SITES: LitterButt.com
COMMENTS: Site doesn't post license plate numbers of littering
drivers,
but it does act. Reported plateholders in participating states
(Pennsylvania, Texas and North Carolina) get a notice -- the site sends
the
details to the state, which then mails a letter to the vehicle owner.
For
other states, the site may send an email to the governor.

TRANSGRESSION: Loud talking on a cellphone
SITES: Flickr.com RudePeople.com
COMMENTS: Flickr abounds with pictures of people talking loudly on
cellphones or displaying bad cell etiquette. Could you be there? Photos
have
titles and comments like "TalksTooLoud," "Loud talker" and "Chatty
McBlabsalot."

TRANSGRESSION: Yelling at children
SITES: Isawyournanny.blogspot.com
COMMENTS: Five-month-old site has about 190 sightings so far, and
most

relate tales of bad behavior. Two more sites for nannies --
Isawyourmommy.blogspot.com and Isawnannysemployer.blogspot.com -- have
since
been launched in reaction.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

School Pick up Time means new outift time!

2007-01-31T09:09:00.000-08:00

Why is the 'scene' at every single Manhattan Private school so eerily similar? Why do you get the Moms who pick up their kids {only to return them to their Nannies once out of sight} get so dolled up in tight jeans; full make up, fancy thousand dollar bags and Jimmy Choo heels? I can;t think of one Norland Nanny who would wear such impractical clothes to collect their charges. How can you run after a 5 year old wearing Manolos? Who are you trying to impress? The teachers? The kids? The other Mommies?

Mommy Acts Like a Queen Bee

2007-01-31T09:06:00.000-08:00

This Mommy walked into 3Guys Restaurant; 76th and Madison NYC, swinging her Birkin on one hip and clutching a 3 year old sweet pea on the other. The little girl was decked out in the Upper East Side Child Uniform of Papo D'anjo, Bonpoint and cashmere. Behind this Mom in her skinny jeans and heels was a Phillipino Nanny; pushing the stroller. After she began to fold it up the mother hissed 'TAKE IT WITH YOU! AND I'll call you when we're done to get her'

I wonder how often this Mommy eats at home in sweatpants and a vest with her little one? Hmmm.

HORRIFIC STORY ABOUT MOTHER IN NYC

2006-10-01T06:38:00.000-07:00

This NY Mommy does not work and lies around all day in her robe. Her nanny arrives at 7am with 2 keys, one to unlock the front door and another to unlock the door to the 2 young boys bedroom. The mothers room is much further away in their huge apartment where she does not have a moniter as it 'disturbs her sleep'. The nanny gets the kids up, feeds them and dresses them. The mother gets up around 11, sometimes says hello, sometimes does not. The Nanny then stays all day and puts the kids to bed. I ask you. Why have kids?

Madison Avenue Mom Doesn't Pay Nanny for Hard Work!

2006-09-30T12:07:00.000-07:00

I had an interview with a Woman who lives in the 60's and Madison back at the beginning of summer. She is a 'stay at home' Mom with 2 small kids. I had the initial interview with her and she invited me to spend a day with her and the kids. I checked with my agency who confirmed that this would be paid. I turned up at 10am and spent the day with her and her two kids until 6.30pm. I walked 20 blocks to the daughters school and then twenty blocks back. We walked across Central Park to the West Side Park {because the Mom said the kids 'preferred' to go there} in 90 degree heat. I ate a bagel on the walk as we were too busy to stop for a proper lunch and the kids ate in their stroller. She told me that she wanted me to 'play with the kids' as she would observe me in the PArk. Other Mom makes a point of telling her I am fabulous. I then helped feed the kids, cleaned up, played with them and bathed them. At the end of the day she said a hurried goodbye and closed the door. I asked the agency why she did not pay. I emailed her TWICE politely giving her my address and asking her to send payment. She did not reply. I have since passed her several times on 5th Ave and she avoids all eye contact. I meanwhile am still offended that she does not consider my time worth paying for and did not even have the courtesy to send an email thanking me for my day.

Get in touch!

2006-09-30T10:43:00.000-07:00

Email me your submissions at isawnannysemployer@yahoo.com

And if you hear of people badmouthing their nanny be sure to send it in!