Scenario 2: Always cautious, you’ve had a nanny cam in place since you started employing babysitters. You’ve never had any problems with your current babysitter but you feel it’s better to be safe than sorry and leave the nanny camera in place. Your dependable, 17 year old babysitter arrives on time as always to watch your daughter while you and your wife are at an awards banquet. You return home later to find everything in order though the babysitter seems vaguely upset as if she wants to tell you something. She doesn’t.
The next morning you review your wireless surveillance camera footage and are surprised to see your babysitter violated your no-guest policy and had her boyfriend over. A bit later the video finds the two of them partially nude and making love on your living room floor. You cringe as, in one scene, your daughter walks in on the two of them. She is promptly shooed out of the room by the half-dressed babysitter who is clearly mortified. The babysitter immediately dresses and kicks the boyfriend out of the house before crying in apparent shame on the couch.
The solution to Scenario #2 is much the same as in our previous post covering Illegal Activity and Violation of Rules Caught on Nanny Cameras. Again, depending on your personal values and expectations, you can either terminate or keep the babysitter employed. Do not, however, let on that you caught events on a nanny cam. Should you chose to keep her employed, simply call her and let her know a neighbor ratted her out on her violation of the no-guest rule and you want to reaffirm there should be no boys staying with her while she’s watching your daughter.
Should your babysitter deny your “neighbor’s” claims, advise her that your daughter told you that she’d seen the babysitter “wrestling with some boy.” If she should continue to deny, add the word “naked” and then fire the lying brat without further explanation. If she isn’t willing to fess up under that kind of evidence then she’s likely to continue breaking rules when she thinks you won’t be aware.
If your solution to Scenario #2 is termination, there is no need to humiliate your babysitter by letting her know you’ve just watched a video from your nanny cam of her bumping uglies with her boyfriend. Simply advise her you’ll no longer require her services. Should she press for why just, use the same excuse that a neighbor ratted her out and you’ve nothing more to say on the subject.