Reply #23: ok, distain, you have distain for the rich [View All]

[Hamlette]

If someone paid me $97,000 to be their weekend nanny I would do what they wanted including tending other children and sleeping over. If I did not want to do that, I would quit my job and find another. (I've been at my job for 30 years, not 20 months, and don't make that kind of money and while I like my job, its not nearly as much fun as tending the neighbor's kids would be.)

Know the super rich? Yeah. I know several who are worth, by my best guess, between $10 and $400 million. They are each and every one wonderful people.

I've worked for the super rich...someone perhaps closer to the $10 net worth range...maybe more when you consider the value of her island in Canada. Among the most giving, kind, wonderful person I know.

Of course I don't expect you to believe me. Which of course is the very nature of bigotry. Your mind is made up without knowing the facts.

I know what you are saying but I don't see this as a good example (without knowing more facts). What I have seen in my life is the difference between some republicans and most democrats. The republicans of which I speak feel entitled and the democrats feel grateful. It has nothing to do with money. If this woman was one of the entitled I would not like her but from the article it sounded like the nanny was the one who felt entitled. Entitled to more than $97,000 for being the weekend nanny.

I'd be more sympathetic if she hadn't made so much money or didn't have free will or we lived in a country where she couldn't just go find another job any time she wanted. She had only worked for this woman for 20 months, it's not like she had invested her life in the family. I think it is also very telling there is not one mention in the article or your post about how the nanny felt about the kids. To me it sounds like she didn't like them very much and considered caring for them a chore. You don't like the work or your boss? Move on!