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.
Everyone’s railing against “the snacks” bit, but no one is talking about the “we do not keep anything like this at home”
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.
ragebait
You all laugh but how many of you are part of hiring teams doing the exact same thing
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.
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!
I’d pretend I’m interested and haggle with them over the conditions. Just to get them hooked.
You. I like you.
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.
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.
People who breed serial killers
People with crotch goblins
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.
incredibly convincing fake of a ragepost
This is considered incredibly convincing?
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”.
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.
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
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.
$18 dollars a day for masters degree, snacks and material not included. lol this is true definition of unhinged.
So they never got a nanny.
$18 a day
What the fuck economy is she living in
Don’t forget to bring snacks though
Does $4 an hour make it sound better!?
"Hi, please come and parent for us for below minimum wage, and somehow also manage to feed and house yourself.
No, we won’t help you, just be independently wealthy but not too wealthy or we’ll think you’re better than us.
Thanks!"
18$ - 10$ for “snacks” = 8$ for 4.5h = 1.77$/h
Nice wage for someone with a masters degree lol
It’s 7 to 10 hours a day and they won’t be telling you when they’ll be getting home for you to be able to leave.
I mean the time frame is extremely specific, but yeah realistically they wont ever be back in time.
Also need to subtract housing cost and learning materials.
not too wealthy or we’ll think you’re better than us.
Nah more like
not too wealthy or we’ll think you think you’re better than us.
Given the PhD job market these days, that’s more plausible than it has any right to be
Yeah, but are you 24-28 with a triple postdoc to educate their kid? Didn’t think so.
Lost me on the snacks. No one this douchey would let your poor ass bring in Walmart snacks.
I am pretty sure they expect high-end snacks like avocado toast and macadamia nuts.
Can’t afford snacks, but can afford to put locks on every cupboard, and then not be embarrassed when people see her prison kitchen?
“Please write a rage-inducing story on the subject of…”
“Sure! Great question!”
Oh…well I brought them chocolate covered espresso beans to help them focus on their studies. It always worked for me during my masters thesis. Anyway have fun tonight!! Byeeeee
