I'm sad that you thought you had to air your grievances with your former nanny in such a public manner. If I were seeking work as a caregiver and read your article, I would not be at all interested in working for you. Regardless of what you thought of her blog or her life, your conduct was unbecoming and jeopardizes your integrity for all your future childcare needs.
Hopefully, you and your former nanny have both learned valuable lessons on maintaining distance between employer and employee. She learned not to share her innermost feelings with her boss and you, as curious as you may be about your employee's offduty behavior, learned not to read more into the words on a blog. If not, please consider doing so.
Article comments
1 - miriam
Ms. Olen strikes me as twice as weird as the nanny, who is weird enough in all conscience. Telling your employer about your blog? Incroyable!
2 - Temple Stark
I think a lot of people can come together and agree - WTF was the New York Times thinking in agreeing to publish this Olen opinion piece - with all names included. Very bad decision.
3 - Dave Nalle
I think this demonstrates why too much education, including the ability to read 19th century novels is bad for women.
The problem with Ms. Olen and her Nanny are that they're both self-absorbed pretentious nitwits. Some third person should fire both of them and make them go get a job in a soup kitchen.
Dave
4 - DrPat
Dave, you failed to close your [sarcasm] tag, so it spilled over into subsequent comments...
[/sarcasm]
There you go! {grin]
5 - Dave Nalle
My sarcasm tag is never closed...
Dave
6 - Joanie
Glad you all enjoyed the piece as well as sharing my sentiments.
Amazing, ain't it? I got wireless internet at the hospital! Woo hoo!