7 nannies who work for the rich and powerful share the worst things they've ever been asked to do on the job

"This was a very wealthy family but they had their overnight help sleep in a storage room that was not even on a proper bed," the former nanny told Business Insider. "It was like a couch with plastic wrap on it, and the bathroom was the shared bathroom in the kid's playroom. I think if you're going out of your way to hire someone to sleep overnight, wake up early and take care of your kids, you could at least provide some kind of bed."

The family lived in a large apartment in New York City's Upper East Side, the former nanny told Business Insider. The children's father was an executive at an investment banking firm, and hired multiple cooks and part-time nannies to help the family. The nanny who spoke to Business Insider found the job through Care.com to supplement her salary from her day job.

"When the baby was about a year old, I stayed the night while the parents were out of town," the nanny told Business Insider. "The baby was screaming in pain the whole night from constipation. At about 3 in the morning, I put on a glove and manually dis-impacted his bowels trying to make him more comfortable. I got about two hours of sleep that night."

The nanny was hired through an agency after posting her resume on Care.com, they told Business Insider. The father was the CEO of a Durham, North Carolina based company and the mother was a doctor.

"They didn't ask me to do it, but one of the poop disasters involved poop allllll over the carpet, walls, crib, stuffed animals, etc," the nanny told Business Insider. "I cleaned it all up before they got home."

Keeping the family's house clean was part of this nanny's daily responsibilities, in addition to grocery shopping for the family, and entertaining the children, the nanny told Business Insider.

"One time I was left a $100 bill to order dinner while the parents were at a charity fundraiser," the nanny told Business Insider. "When the delivery guy arrived, he couldn't break the $100. We didn't know what to do, so we kinda stood there for a while, trying to contact the parents and his store. Eventually, the store had him return to his route and the mom had to call the store later to charge her card."

It was the single most extreme thing this nanny was ever asked by a family to do, the nanny told Business Insider.

The nanny, named Genevieve, regularly picked out the child's two favorite colors from "monstrous" bags of M&Ms and put them in ziplock bags to have on hand whenever he wanted candy, she told Business Insider.