being burned by their housekeeper/driver/nanny. He ran up your phone bill, she socialized with men, she stole food, etc.
But none of that is justification for the kind of pre-emptive punishment that certain people are espousing on here.
I love how people are so quick to say "we treated her like FAMILY...and look at what she did!!" My guess is you DIDN'T treat her like family because otherwise you would have engendered a helluva lot more loyalty and respect from her than what she ended up giving you.
Put yourself in their shoes and ask how warm and fuzzy you'd be feeling about your employer, given the stuff they have to put up with.
Newsflash: making your nanny sleep on your children's bedroom floor so she's there 24/7 is NOT treating her fairly.
Taking her along when you go out to eat with the family and then making her sit at another table and not buying her anything to eat and drink is NOT treating her well.
Expecting her to work on Friday (her day off) so that you can sleep in is NOT okay.
Allowing yourself and your children to verbally abuse her is never okay.
Holding her passport is ILLEGAL and definitely not okay.
If you treat people like they're untrustworthy, they will prove you right, every time.
It's distasteful that so many people on here think they are warranted in treating their household employees like they are indentured servants.
God never hits with a stick, people.
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
-- Maya Angelou
being burned by their housekeeper/driver/nanny. He ran up your phone bill, she socialized with men, she stole food, etc.
But none of that is justification for the kind of pre-emptive punishment that certain people are espousing on here.
I love how people are so quick to say "we treated her like FAMILY...and look at what she did!!" My guess is you DIDN'T treat her like family because otherwise you would have engendered a helluva lot more loyalty and respect from her than what she ended up giving you.
Put yourself in their shoes and ask how warm and fuzzy you'd be feeling about your employer, given the stuff they have to put up with.
Newsflash: making your nanny sleep on your children's bedroom floor so she's there 24/7 is NOT treating her fairly.
Taking her along when you go out to eat with the family and then making her sit at another table and not buying her anything to eat and drink is NOT treating her well.
Expecting her to work on Friday (her day off) so that you can sleep in is NOT okay.
Allowing yourself and your children to verbally abuse her is never okay.
Holding her passport is ILLEGAL and definitely not okay.
If you treat people like they're untrustworthy, they will prove you right, every time.
It's distasteful that so many people on here think they are warranted in treating their household employees like they are indentured servants.
God never hits with a stick, people.
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
-- Maya Angelou