Read the Ask A Manager blog. Anytime you see a post about how an employer treats you like family, you’ll see a letter about unreasonable demands and blurred boundaries. And yet those same employer's will not think twice about firing you if they need to.

Yeah, no. For all of those requirements, she needs to be looking for a nanny, a chef, a travel agent, and a personal trainer at the very least. The insane demands + wanting their nanny to live in the pool house + "we want you to be like family" are all major red flags for a job that is going to end up majorly crossing…

Well for one thing it's insulting that she has money but is apparently not willing to hire multiple people to fill all these roles for her. I've had a job that required me to be on call 24/7 and I would not in a million years take it back for only $86K.

I worked for this kind of person - in the Bay Area, no less - and to call it an “absolute fucking nightmare” would be a serious understatement.

If you read the thing she’s pretty specific that there are certain hours. She even goes on to detail how much time on travel the person is suspected to work. So I don’t think it’s intended to be 24-7, particularly since there’s an au pair and other household staff.

I have been thinking about this ad all weekend.

I just can’t get over how insulting the “I need a wife” part is. Certainly as a successful, powerful, wealthy woman, whereas that’s historically been a men-only realm, she above anyone should understand that gender roles do not determine life-roles???

I’m an American, and I felt bad reading your comment because you’re right.

Are you kidding? Every time something like this happens, the heart of the issue is always about who is making money, almost more than any other kind of ideological or ethical considerations. It’s very interesting and I don’t know if Americans, even progressive ones, realise it. 

This! I can certainly understand that being Latinx in the United States is going to mean that your experience as an American has some definite common threads regardless of whether you're of Mexican descent or Argentinian descent, but if you're talking about people actually in Mexico or actually in Argentina (or Puerto…

This is good!

Your whiteness (or Cummins’s) has nothing to do with being Latinx or not. A majority of Latinx citizens of the USA self-identify as white. My guess is that is changing, but that’s as of the last Census. Being Latinx is an ethnicity, not a racial category (many ethnicities actually, as being Mexican is different than…

They want our stories.  They need our labor.  They need our love.  The sad through though is this, they don’t want us

Oh man this book sounds like a first cousin of The Help. Publishing houses need more people of color to save them from greenlighting this sort of deeply offensive claptrap.

As a non-American, I had to smile at your comment because it’s such an American way of viewing the issue. Whether from the left or the right, it always comes down to money. The article and a lot of the author’s critics make the point that she’s profiting from Mexicans’ pain, and your proposed remedy is that the…

I understand what you’re saying but you know white people are not the only anti-immigrant community in the US right? In fact, many immigrants are anti-immigrant. I teach in an inner city HS and my students, none of whom are white are all extremely anti-immigrant. I’m not trying to defend white people here, but when we…

Mixed-race kid with a Colombian dad here. American exceptionalism has always been about “saving” others, whether it’s Native American children from their own culture, or the Cubans and Filipinos from the Spanish, or French women from the Germans. So this book is nothing new in that regard. I’m aware that the novel Uncl…

As a bookseller, I’ve been waiting to see what would be posted on Jez about this book, and I’m very very glad to see it’s not the same “who gets to write what stories” crap other outlets are trying to make it out to be.

So by humanize what she meant was make a generic good immigrant that white people could stomach without feeling threatened or scared of THE OTHER. BUT ALSO, give the generic good immigrant enough scary problems to make white people empathize which will make us feel good about how open minded and GOOD we are. Isn’t it…

It’s a shame that Wendy O. Williams is no longer with us. It’d be fun to watch the two of them duke it out for the rights to the name.