An advertisement calling for a nanny to complete an extensive list of duties for $25 an hour has received a frank and deeply underwhelming response.
The note, seeking an after-school au pair, was posted on a Woolworths supermarket community message board in Balmain in Sydney’s inner west.
‘We’re a Balmain family looking for an after-school caregiver for 14 hours per week ($25 per hour) starting early 2018,’ the advert reads.
The suitable candidate would be required look after two children, aged four and eight, for four hours per day from Monday through to Thursday.
But that’s not all.
An advertisement calling for a nanny to complete an extensive list of duties for $25 an hour has received a frank and deeply underwhelming response
Among the nanny’s duties would be to cook dinner, clean, and walk the dog (stock image)
‘The role involves school pick-ups in the Balmain/Birchgrove area so the successful applicant will need his/her own car as well as a clean driver’s license.
‘As well as a kind and generous nature, excellent English is essential as you will be helping our Year 3 child with spelling and other homework.
‘Other duties include preparing kids’ dinner, making school lunches, walking our dog as well as light housework such as folding washing.’
The ad finishes by explaining the successful applicant would be required to commit to role for a minimum of six months, and would need a Working with Children check and First Aid certificate.
Social media users have reacted online with a mix of outrage and understanding
The successful applicant would also be required to help children with their homework (stock)
Scribbled in blue pen at the bottom of the advertisement, a shopper wrote: ‘Don’t want much for $25/hr do you?’
Social media users have reacted online with a mix of outrage and understanding.
‘Get out of town! That’s basically slavery for what they are wanting to pay,’ one wrote.
‘God I hope they pay for fuel. This seems a bit much other ones at least offer a spare car so the nanny can take their children to school and whatever else,’ another said.
Others argued the wage was perfectly reasonable and noted that nannies and au pairs in Australia are entitled to $22.86 an hour – the national minimum wage for casual workers.
‘Probably cash in hand job so great for a student,’ one noted, while another said: ‘It’s pretty much in line with what childcare workers get paid.’