There’s an App for Wrecking Nannies’ Lives

Re:There’s an App for Wrecking Nannies’ Lives by tlarkworthy on Thursday July 12, 2018 @05:34PM (#17518812)

I think gigs are ill suited to child care and home cleaning. One bad apple can ruin your life, so you should be super cautious when hiring. We have had the same nanny and the same cleaner for 2+ years.

Price should not be the main factor. Minimizing risk of getting a bad apple is the most important thing, and this is not well done by the current batch of gig apps. Gigs optimize labour fluidity, which is the opposite of what you want.

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Re:There’s an App for Wrecking Nannies’ Lives by rayiner on Thursday July 12, 2018 @05:45PM (#17518890)

Yes, we found this incredibly frustrating when trying to find a house cleaner. Everyone's optimizing to have the lowest bid for those sites that give you 4-5 quotes with little to differentiate them but price. There are people who could maybe offer better service for a higher price, but the gig sites totally optimize against that.[1]

[1] I'll plug the folks we ended up finding, who are awesome: https://www.maidsinblack.com.

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