I hired a nanny on care.com. She was fine for a week, in fact seemed great. In a week she said she would not be able to work the hours (8 hr/day)because she had to walk her dog. she wanted to bring the dog home because my son has asthma and I told her that was not an option and gave her an option f 1 hour less per day for the same pay(500/week for 35 hours). I had an extremely bad experience with her and had to fire her. I tolerated the attitude and passive aggressive nature thinking that people could have different personalities. The last draw was when one of her friends or acquaintances on Facebook alerted me regarding a post she had written regarding the Nanny Problems she had. It was an appalling post where she had made comments on the couples parenting skills and how they should not have had children and should have taken a parenting class before breeding . I looked back at the text exchanges we had and it was a time when she got extremely upset when I had asked her to notify and ask me before giving my son any medications. When I confronted her regarding this post she said it had nothing to do with me and that I am not the only person she nannies for. Even if she dint write it about my family, I think it is extremely unprofessional and honestly hateful for a nanny to write that about any parent who has employed her.
I really want to write a review so that other people would not be in a situation like me. Are there any repercussions to writing a bad review?..
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Not sure about repercussions but I'd (as a hiring mom) appreciate to know when someone is not worth either interviewing or hiring. I just had a very bad experience myself my nanny of 1+ year lied about been absent due to her mom's illness (she's from Venezuela) and we granted her a leave of absence and even gave her a bonus to help her. We were making every possible arrangement to work things out and wait for her for three months. Today I found out (after only three weeks of "travel") she's in town and working at another job. I am debating whether or not to write a bad review because at the end of the day she was excellent with my kids yet what she did is so dishonest and unprofessional.

I understand where you ladies are coming from, but my first thought is absolutely, write a review. There is nothing wrong with writing a review exactly as you worded it here in this forum. I would certainly want feedback of the character of the person who could potentially be provided care for my child, especially because of his special medical needs. We parents need to stick together! :)

I ended up writing the review for my ex-nanny. Unfortunately, our trust in nannies is so broken at this point that we have decided to move towards the daycare route. We'll see how this goes but at least what the daycare option offers is 100% reliability. I'm torn though.