I work at a 501C3 organization run out of the director's home. The corporation pays for an employee to provided daycare/nanny services to employees. However, when the director was going to hire a personal housekeeper, she instead extended the hours of this employee so as to be her personal housekeeper (laundry, cleaning of bathrooms, mopping floors, etc.). The "Nanny" is supposed to be available for use in the office (during naptimes) for tasks such as stuffing envelopes, preparing mailings, etc. Unfortunately, when asked if I can assign a task to the Nanny, she is usually too busy with personal tasks for the director. Case in point, today she is unavailable to help in the office because "she's way too busy getting the house and furniture ready for us to paint this weekend."

I was also wondering about a second issue. Our co-director's husband is a database designer who designed our database (for pay as a consultant). The database is now becoming out of date and needs to be updated to meet current technology demands, however the designer does not personally own the equipment or software necessary to complete the task, so the director told him to just go buy the new computer and software and we'll just pay for it (this will become his personal computer).

I am new to this corporation, and I know they are small, but after 15 years in business, these do not seem like appropriate expenditures. Am I mistaken??