Bad news all around here–parents who would otherwise choose to not spend time with their spawn are being forced to do so because they can no longer afford to child rear via proxy. New York reports that the previously thriving nanny business has all but dried up due to widespread layoffs and shrinking bonuses. “It’s been a week and no one’s called,” says Christopher Sager, a Soho-based child technician sans child. According to SitterCity.com’s Genevive Thiers, the listing service’s job seekers have grown from 1,300 to 2,500 in the last six months. The number of Craigslist postings by those in the human animal husbandry business pushing their services has skyrocketed as well. Saturating the field are advertisements by former professionals from all walks of life whose backgrounds/interests aren’t actually in raising your offspring but are just that desperate for work. Included in the mix are a transient crackwhore who’s actually pretty great with kids* and a deposed Lehman Brothers CEO.**
Wall Street Woes Hit The Nursery [NYM]
*You know who, don’t make me say it.
**Don’t want to start a panic, but got some insider info on this one.
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OMG this site is better than match.com!
Might it simply be that people are figuring out that nannies can be a problem and are switching to daycare which, being more institutional, is always there for you.
@2- no. rich people will always choose nannies over daycare for their precious brats. it is that they cannot afford them right now.
then they aren’t rich!
Mark my words, next the Waverly Inn will be publishing their phone number and taking reservations from 203, 718 and 201.
fuld is taking the head post at AM Best.
I’d like to take a position in the AM with Bess.
What about Cayne? He is a fine choice for a job that involves sitting in a chair, microwaving some snacks, and watching cartoons for hours.
@8– pretty sure that’s where the first * was going.
it’s a lot tougher to bang the daycare teacher than it is a nanny, logistically speaking.
If I could keep a Nanny like Scarlett Johansson for my two kids, I’d suck on her DD boobs. Any one with leads on which of the 2500 listed nannies have DDs to suck?
The nannies I see in my building are from Jamaica or Nicaragua, 45-ish, height 5 1, weight 190. Or maybe Utah, age 19 but same height and weight. The Nanny Diary ones are reserved for the top .5%.
11 – Scarlet’s aren’t real tits.
@11:27
Do you stay in Harlem or Queens?
12 East 70s, thank you.
13 – die.
13 – if you can touch them, then they’re real
scarlett’s are real just like hellman’s REAL mayonnaise ty
@13, 16, 17
Scarlett’s mammaries are REAL.
But they aren’t DD. Just a single ‘D’.
34D to be precise.
losers.
34d with or w/out mayo?
good to see the mayo guy back we missed your stupid ass.
Everything always goes better with mayo!
@24- you are not funny, you are fucking annoying, seriously FUCKING DIE.
@25 whats your problem? Oh I know you’re on a diet and are going thru mayo withdrawals.
# 25 relax what an over the top reaction. Go get a life you hardcharging TOOL and lighten up Francis!!!!
# 25 relax what an over the top reaction. Go get a life you hardcharging TOOL and lighten up Francis!!!!
@3 — 1 FT nanny is less expensive than 2 FT daycares, so if we have a second kid we’ll probably have to go nanny.
# 25 u can’t handle the MAYO.
29 Whatever. Just do the rest of us a favor and leave it or them home when you go out to dinner.
looks like it’s going to be survival of the fairest, er, I mean fittest, for the aspiring nannies out there. better not skimp on those spinning classes at equinox! the only thing going in favor of the nannies that our dear friend @#12 spotted in his/her building (let me guess – rental?) are the wives who have a) philandering husband issues, or b) inferiority complexes…discuss.
12 here again. You guessed wrong. Not a rental but instead a very pleasant prewar coop E 70s. Not Park or Fifth, but still filled with bankers and lawyers. Don’t know where all of you get these idalized images of nannies. The ones you’re dreaming of exist for the most part in movies.
33 has it right.
also, in the movie, scarjo is the only hot nanny. the other ones are from from Jamaica or Nicaragua, like in 12/33′s building.
There is also a contingent of Tibetans who do a great job nanny-ing. And a newer group of eastern europeans who work in Brooklyn (mostly Williamsburg.
@ cluzo– what about 12′s post (which brings this thread back down to reality) would imply that he’s a philanderer or has an inferiority complex? as you’re the one “guessing” he lives in a rental, sounds like your the one (douche) with an inferiority complex.
@37: first, the wife is the one that would have the issues. but if I must explain myself, a) I’m not married, but have plenty of married friends (with kids) who have told me about the interviewing process – the wife always asks the hot nanny applicants to spell, add or some other irrelevant task while the ones that look like weight lifters from the ukraine get a free pass; b) why would I have an inferiority complex? I’m just reading this mess and opining like the rest of you…and c) if/when I have kids, my wife won’t have to worry about me pulling a spitzer on her because she’ll be the ONE. sorry to hear your relationship isn’t working out, want to talk about it?
As usual, its my duty to report the gay angle here. Banker friend of mine recently started dating a little twink (that’s a slim, young, emo sort of gay boy) that he found online. The twink is a Julliard student who reports that he makes good money working as a part time manny for a married couple, both MD’s. Manny = male nanny, youve all heard that one; but they apparently don’t have to be macho, like the one in the novel, who bangs the lady of the house – beleive me emo boy’s not bangin anyone. Unless maybe the husband has different tastes than we would first imagine. Stranger things have happened. But anyway, for the summer, its a full time gig, with lots of time spent in EH. They love him, he loves the money and the beach. So there are all types of nannys. I’m betting the woman of the house was the one that interviewed twink boy. GAnalYst
@GAnalYst – good point, I haven’t heard about the “manny”. the guys I know would have to put their foot down on that one. could you imagine having to tell your boys that your nannie is a man? damn! I think they would lose privileges at “the club” for that type of nonsense. that said, I believe the hiring of a manny furthers my point that the wife (who hired him) has issues (trust/infidelity or otherwise) with keeping her man in check. why go non-traditional if you don’t have to (it just raises questions)?
@38 – Your experience is probably correct, but maybe not for the reasons you think. My wife and I went to the Philippines to interview nannies. Anyone at all cute – and some were smoking – was dismissed as you say after a couple of cursory questions. But when I asked her why she wrote off one girl who was very pretty, but also seemed smart and sincere, dear wife laid it out like this:
“We’re going to spend upwards of $5,000 to get her into the country (air, lawyers, fees, etc.). A girl that pretty is going to want a boyfriend, and she’ll have no trouble finding one. After a while, she’ll be taking off every night and every weekend to spend with her boyfriend, and pretty soon, she’s going to want to move out and live with him. Then she’ll get married, and we’ll have to go through the whole process again. If we hire someone ugly, we don’t have those problems.” And, she was right. We hired a woman with a big heart but a face that stops clocks. She has been with us for 16 years, and she really is a second mother to our two girls (my youngest, even though she had her own bedroom, slept in the nanny’s room until she was ten). Even when the girls go off to university, my wife has no plans to pack the nanny off; she does the shopping, the cooking, the laundry, the cleaning, etc. Sometimes women see the big picture better than men.
“face that stops clocks” – really don’t wanna see that.
Cluz You need to get out more. You havent heard of mannies? They come in many varieties – Australian guys who are teaching skiing in Aspen and are then lured to NY for the summer by some Park Avenue family, to pitch balls and swing bats with their sons in central park. No way Wall St dad’s gonna do that detail. Also, music students, like emo boy, whose strong suits are in the softer skills: supervising piano practice, taking the kids shopping or to museums. The book that I refer to is “The Manny” -a real pot boiler in the Nanny Diaries mode, where the lady of the house sleeps with the hot athletic guy that gets hired to bring some male influence into the lives of her sons, in order to compensate for the lack thereof that results from the long hours that dad works. It is in fact those long hours at work that facilitate the manny/lady fo the house relationship. GAnalYst
@cluzo– hello, fucking pete peterson’s daughter wrote an (atrocious) book called The Manny.
@44 – not married, so I don’t pay attention to that stuff. just because petey’s daughter wrote a book doesn’t make it good (damn!). seriously, which book do you think I would read first: a) “the manny”, b) “the devil wears prada” or c) “fooling some of the people all of the time”? okay, so shoot me, I read “the secret”. but when it comes to nannies, my introduction was tiger woods’ wife! when the bar was set, it was set high.
@kev – great note. definitely puts the entire process into perspective. but what’s wrong with mexico? teach the kids spanish…
@GAnalYst – I thought I was doing good by going to by gay friend’s place in southampton. I must admit the place had great art and they (he and his partner) remodeled the place like pros. btw, good to see you back on the board.
kevin– out of curiosity, why didn’t you get someone living in the US already?
KevinB is right.
When it comes to planning ahead to satisfy their long term self serving goals of the leisure lifestyle, the advantage goes to: Women.
The reason we didn’t get someone from Mexico or the US (BTW, we live in Canada) is my wife is from the Philippines. She had Filipina nannies when she was a little girl, and she thought there would be much less of a culture problem. Filipina nannies are quite prized throughout SE Asia and the Middle East (and Toronto, for that matter) because of their devotion to the kids.
My hot rod is waiting to be stuck in some tight nanny ass.
How’s Mary Poppins doing these days?
I want to Pop Poppins’ cherry.
50:
Poppins is supercalafaladaciousespialadocious.
Maybe 49′s hot rod can ram her.
I’d take one of those Park Ave. hotties over Scarlett or Poppins any day.
49 – 52. There are porn sites available, you know.
We had a nanny…pretty polish girl… when we hired her the wife said to me “touch her and you die”, I believed her.
Anyway a few months back I was busted gawking her g string as she bent over to hoover the floor…(cmon guys who wouldnt)… now we dont have a nanny. the excuse was “She wasnt suitable and didnt do all her chores”…. if only I can get rid of my PA in the same way… dammit, and maybe replace her with a Polish gal whose lookin for work…
(cough)
Do Nannies or Mannies feed kids with Mayo?
why the fuck does it have to get into Manny’s and having sex with the nanny what a bunch of immoral unethical scumbags!! I guess this is the calibre of people on wall street you SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why the fuck does it have to get into Manny’s and having sex with the nanny what a bunch of immoral unethical scumbags!! I guess this is the calibre of people on wall street you SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why the fuck does it have to get into Manny’s and having sex with the nanny what a bunch of immoral unethical scumbags!! I guess this is the calibre of people on wall street you SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@56-58, Are you serious?
For those that are interested i think there is a Mary Poppins and Dick Van Dyke sex tape…..
I think @56 to 58 is actually John Edwards.
To all those who don’t think an attractive nanny/manny presents issues think of Ethan Hawke shtupping the nanny (whom he impregnanted and married) over Uma and Robin Williams doing the same thing.
Finally, Michael Phelps may make $100 million over the next 20 years in endorsements but i bet the stevie cohens of the world would pay him $20 million a year to be his mannie (especially if Michael could teach awkward MOT kids how to be athletic).
Phelps = drugged up cheat in a skin tight cheat/fag suit.
Long live Australia!
@56 to 58
Youre the kind of wierdo I wouldn’t let house sit my labrador in case I came back from a night out to find you humping her senseless.
Of course Nannies/Au pairs are figments of male sexual fantasies ….theyre women, and if attractive and sleeping in the same house, its NATURAL that a man woudl want to “seed the female” that resides on his territory.
You’d probably frotter a terrier…
Kevin – I’m curious, is the nanny flight risk higher in Toronto?
I.e. does a hot asian nanny in Toronto have a higher probability of dating / marriage than, say, in Stamford?