Do cleaners not do dishes?

I work for myself as a cleaner and personally I don't mind doing the washing up. If my client walks in the kitchen I don't want their eye to be drawn straight to the dirty dishes left I want them to admire the clean kitchen 😂 obviously if someone had cooked a 3 course meal and left everything that would be different! But some breakfast dishes and the odd cup left around the house I'll wash up and leave on the draining board. As for them leaving half an hour early, no totally unacceptable. You can always find something to do, if not ask if the client wants an extra job doing. If not then tell the client you've finished early.

So it's fine for someone to clean your toilet, where you shit, but not wash a couple of plates? 🤣

Who does dishes in an office if not the cleaner? It's even more important at work where everyone leaves their dirty dishes around the kitchen

Aren't they paid based on time at the house?

You hire cleaners who wouldn't do dishes in the sink?! Isn't that part of cleaning the kitchen?!

I'm a cleaner, and I do anything that needs doing in the time I have, I generally try my best to do everything! Out of 10 clients only two will have dishes to clean, others usually have either do them their selves or put them in the dishwasher ( if you want the dishwasher emptied then ask for it to be done) If your cleaner is leaving early either tell the agency or talk to them directly! As you stated they were new cleaners so maybe they need to be told to do the dishes and if they have time left, to do x,y&z. I love it when a client leaves me a list of jobs (especially at a new clean) as I know what is expected of me!

I do what my clients want me to. None has asked me to do dishes. If I finish early and there’s some that need doing, I will do them. In one home, sometimes there’s dishes in the sink and I need to use the sink so I wash them. But generally people have put their dishes in the dishwasher.

Our cleaner does any dishes that are out and some laundry (bedsheets etc) 🤷🏼‍♀️. Always has done.

If she runs out of things to do she has even been known to do a spot of ironing.

If the house is already clean (e.g, we've had guests and done a lot for that) she will proactively look for things to fill her time.

She's amazing though.

What is disrespectful about cleaning a toilet?

My house is tidy, my cleaner is a professional who cleans. She will wash any dishes there, but it’s rare I leave any. When I do, I expect her to clean them and she does,

You probably just need to say which cleaning you want doing, no point in mopping if you have just done it

Mine comes twice a week
First thing she does is unload/load the dishwasher and hang up the washing I have put on earlier

Do you expect them to put laundry away in your drawers?

Do you expect them to strip the beds?
If so how often?

I think you need to be much more clear about what you want doing.

It’s so much easier to write a list and so everyone knows what is required of them.

Home help usually does things like washing them dishes and stripping the beds but most cleaners don’t, so a cleaner isn’t going to necessarily know that this is what you want doing.

On MN, no cleaners shouldn’t be expected to do anything and you should apologise for only letting them leave half an hour early. In the real world, most cleaners are happy to do the odd dish, or stack the dishwasher, so long as you don’t leave a mountain of washing up for them.

Either tell them that you’re a bit surprised about them leaving early and not cleaning the sink/dishes and come up with a list of “if you have time” jobs, or get new cleaners. Also agree with PP who said change of sheets on beds is always a good one if there’s not too much to do.

This is what puts me off hiring a cleaner. Finishing early when there is always something else to clean. Also it seems as long with not working their paid hours most cleaners can't be proactive and work to a list. Really good cleaners would work through a list then be proactive doing other things to fill the hours. If a cleaner can always do 2 hours in 1.5 why pay them for 2 hours? It takes 1.5 hours so pay them that.

I think if it's a case of a couple of bits yes not a full on huge amount. I did cleaning for years and would always wash up and clean sink just so the kitchen looked done.

I wouldn't expect my cleaner to wash our dirty dishes. It's a respect thing, at least in my view.

Mine does dishes
Not sure what the problem is with that

So I'm basically paying money for them to leave early and not assist in making my life easier. I may as well just sack them waste of time.

You chose to clean before she came and so you wasted your own money.

I’ve had numerous cleaning jobs and washing the dishes has never been a part of it.

Do you also expect them to do your laundry?

Why not have a list of things you want them to do.

They probably thought they were there to go in the dishwasher.

The state they've left your hob in is shocking - I'd get rid of them just for that. I'd never leave a client's cooker looking that grubby even if I was pushed for time, which they weren't!!

No .

That depends what you discussed and agreed with the cleaner before employing them.

If mine cheated on timekeeping on their very first day, that would also be their last.