“The baby had a Burberry swimsuit.”
We also consulted aReddit threadstarted byu/Nooninon the same topic.
Here are the stories people shared:
1.
“I nannied full-time for a billionaire family.
The children did not have a maid and treated me like I was one.
One night, the youngest child ordered me upstairs to her bedroom.
She demanded I sort her dolls by height, tallest to shortest.
Mind you, there were 27 dolls to sort.
Long story short: That TV is still dusty, and I have not seen that family since.”
bougierockstar31
2.
“I work at a private school and get many nannying/babysitting jobs through my job.
Most families I work for make a run at teach their children to appreciate what they have.
To them, it’s normal and expected.
It’s hard to reward these kids for good behavior when the rewards aren’t rewarding!”
u/blinkiwi
3.
“In 1991, I worked for a family in New York that owned a major newspaper.
Money makes people insufferable.”
wendywise
4.
“The father would give me unbelievable amounts of money for basic things and refuse to take change back.
Need to renew the kids' library cards?
Take a $100 bill.
I felt so bad for the librarian who had to get bills to break that.
There was $85 leftover that he wouldn’t take back.”
Anonymous
5.
The mom would get package after package from Neiman Marcus, Saks, and other high-end stores DAILY.
The baby had a Burberry swimsuit.
The older kids basically only had ‘hip’ designer clothes."
“It was insufferable work knowing I was doing everything the parents could do but just chose not to.
It never sat right with me.
It didn’t help that the kids were total spoiled brats.
I quit very soon after that.”
“The kids all had several maids waiting on them hand and foot.
As it turned out, the little girl hit almost all of her developmental milestones slightly delayed.
I took care of everything.
The mom did next to nothing.
The dad woke up with the girls in the morning and handed them over to me.
I probably could have sued them for sexual harassment, but nudity and bodies don’t really bother me.
so there’s that.”
“I nannied for this family during the last summer before I graduated college.
They were clearly in a completely different tax bracket than me and most of the people I interacted with.
However, the most unbelievable thing was the nanny credit card I was given.
The kids would rack up a huge bill every week on this thing.
This would be a weekly/biweekly occurrence.
I also had the credit card for two months after the kids and I went back to school.
The mom kept canceling plans for me to return it to her in person.
I came to babysit one Saturday night and gave her the credit card.
She just shrugged her shoulders and said that it was set to do automatic payments.
She then told me to keep it for the night and leave it in the kitchen when I left.
The biggest thing was how uninvolved they were with their daughter’s life.
Then, it was how casual they were with money.
Most of them still had their tags on them.
She spent $20 an ornament and didn’t even use them.”
u/IslandoftheMoths
10.
They had one daughter, who was 10 when I first started nannying for them.
The strangest thing was that they expected me to be their daughter’s parental role model.
“Also, they had no regard for throwing around money like it was no big deal.
It was the same thing when my car got dented.
u/lansters
11.
“The drama is just like on TV.
The dad in the family I nannied for had a secret daughter and another family for five years.
Also, money was just thrown around.
A $500 rocking chair is the wrong shade of orange?
Just throw it in the garbage and go buy a new one.
Daughters are fighting with each other over their Barbie Dream Houses?
u/pinkpanda24
12.
“A good friend of mine is a nanny for a very wealthy couple.
They own and live in an entire brownstone-pop in building.
I think they’re both lawyers.
He is the source of the wealth, which is largely inherited.
Every day, the wife goes to her job.
The husband goes to his floor of the house, which nobody is allowed to bother him on.
He spends the day smoking pot and lazing about like he’s Jeff Lebowski.
That’s all he does.
“They’re nice enough people.
My friend likes her job.
u/MidasVirago
13.
“Not me, but a cousin.
She worked for a family with a 4-year-old and a 6-month-old.
It wasn’t live-in, but it was 12 hours a day, six days a week.
Both parents were very high-up executives and multi-millionaires many times over.
After that, she was not supposed to look at or speak to the parents, only the assistant.
She was to arrive at 6:00 a.m. on the dot and wait in the living room.
Because of them, she could pay off her car and student loans.
morgan_le_slay
14.
“I was the nanny for a couple with two children.
At the time, they were around 9 and 6.
The mom gave me her credit card and asked that I take them school shopping.
Clothes, school supplies, etc.
I took them to Target.
Before I left, the mom said, ‘If they want something, get it.’
The kids were spoiled rotten.
WHATEVER they wanted, they got.
No food was ever made at home.
They always had microwave meals.
“I used to be an au pair for a super rich family in China.
The funny thing was that they already had a nanny.
The kid even kicked her, and she simply tolerated it.
She even slept in the kid’s room while his mom had her own bedroom.
Personally, I just couldn’t deal with how spoiled and entitled the child was.
u/Njoerun
16.
They also pay me every six months or so and seem confused that I want the money so often.
They’re good for it, after all.
They’re good people but weird.”
u/Alsadius
17.
I was called in on weekends to spend time with the 6-year-old and play games with him.
Most of the time, the mom and grandma were home and in their own rooms.
Once, the mom and dad were home and napping.
I was basically being paid good money to play with the kid.
Of course, the kid was incredibly bossy and fussy when he didn’t get his own way.
‘Don’t worry, no one has any allergies.'”
u/nerdcamper
18.
“The family I work for right now is very wealthy.
They live on Fifth Avenue, right across from Central Park.
The first is the clothes.
The 6-year-old’s backpack was $85.
The 3-year-old outgrew her wardrobe last year; it was all replaced with the same expensive stuff.
Next would have to be scheduling.
They want their children to succeed, and I get it.
But every day, there is something: piano, ballet, tennis, Chinese lessons, and squash.
They have no time to play.”
It could be as simple as scheduling.
For instance, the mom doesn’t know when ballet and tennis are; I do.
She also doesn’t know her kids’ worries or fears.
There’s definitely something missing there, and it shows.
The 3-year-old constantly slips up and calls me ‘mama,’ which breaks my heart.”
u/cnk93
19.And: “I’ve been a professional nanny for over 20 years.
I’ve worked for celebrities, billionaires, and athletes.
I’ll tell you a few things.
There are, of course, exceptions to this.
They are often incredible towards their staff.
Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
