When we conducted an extensive informal survey on what irritates nannies the most about their employers' little ways, the same gripes were mentioned time and time again. See if you agree.
10 In at number 10 is the employer's refusal to notice that her gruesome cousin/uncle/ father-in-law is a leering pest.
Why is it that employers who claim emancipation for themselves and even, in one case, listen to complaints of sexual harassment in the workplace as part of their job, cannot or will not see when it is happening in their own home to the person who cares for their children? This most awkward of subjects was mentioned time and again, as was the employers' failure to protect nannies from this imposition.
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