Some weeks ago I was approached by a security company who wanted me to send out leaflets to my clients advertising their wonderful new nanny surveillance equipment. The owner offered to pay me a very generous commission should a client buy one of his systems. Apart from the fact that people would be suspicious of my checking procedures if they felt it necessary to install surveillance, the idea of anyone being spied on by hidden cameras horrifies me, so I refused his offer.
He then launched into his sales patter, describing all the things that could happen when a nanny was alone with the children in the house. According to him, a nanny could 'have sex with her boyfriend, try on all her employer's clothes, leave the children watching television while she fell asleep - she could even be injecting drugs'.
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