To think my cleaner shouldn’t bring her own child to work?

I would assume her other clients don't have an issue with her bringing her well behaved child to work so she has assumed you don't either...because really it's a non issue.

Just like anyone providing a service I wouldn't expect a hairdresser busdriver ,teacher ti bring their child to work either..

So annoying isn’t it, any excuse to have a go at ‘men’ however tenuous a link.

It's the idea that people often don't think people who work for them (particularly in what are considered low skill roles) are human.

But, frankly, I wouldn't want a woman cleaning my home for four hours and fretting the entire way through about where her child is, or whether they are ok at home alone or some other alternative she is forced into that she clearly didn't want in the first place. Even if it were because I was being very selfish, I prefer people working for me to be happy! They tend to do a better job!

This isn't about social help it's about childcare costs..you don't know that the cleaner doesn't have an excess of 400 plus to pay on her rent from what UC will pay.....in the series/book she's working she actually has rent to pay subsidised by social help. the childcare issue is a huge theme through the book and series.

😂

You will be looking for a new cleaner!

@Informercera How does a well behaved child, sitting on the sofa whilst you are in a completely different room change the dynamic?

I think you are BVU. If the cleaner has been with you for a year and they didn’t bring their child during half terms, Christmas etc something may have gone wrong. Not your problem, but not something to get worked up over when it’s what, 2-4 hours a week maximum?

Shouldn’t take her long to get another position, good cleaners hard to find. As OP says she goes above and beyond with her duties.

It's not ideal. I had to entertain a three year old once. Lively so a complete waste of time but I think I would tolerate a 10 year old sitting quietly on a sofa.,

She may have no choice if childcare costs more than she is being paid as a cleaner?!?

Also she could find another client who allows her to have her child there!

My cleaner is paid £18 per hour direct, which is well above national living wage and a high hourly rate for unskilled work. If she had an emergency situation with childcare I would probably accommodate as a one off, but otherwise I would expect her to have it covered. I certainly wouldn’t be ok with her bringing her child along without asking. There’s always a lot of vitriol and batshittery directed at OPs who have the temerity to have a cleaner on here, but YANBU.

The posters telling you to buy special drinks and snacks for child are a bit OTT, OP @Informercera

A poster isn't automatically a man just because they disagree with you.

How do you know the cleaner can't?

People need to decide on their narrative either she's a Penniless cleaner who can't afford childcare or she has tons of clients and csn pick and choose who she cleans for and therefor put her child in appropriate childcare.

if the cleaner is in the same situation as the woman in The Maid the social services should be involved. The story is set in the US where there is little social help.

Electricians charge £90 call out fee. They can afford childcare.

If she's a good cleaner and the kid behaves, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest. She should have asked you though.

You are 'paying for a service' AND you are still getting it

The child sits on the sofa and doesnt move.
The cleaner is nice amd you have no issues with her

I think you just crack on working from home or face losing a good trustworthy cleaner

The issue is she should ask. So that's the part that needs raising. I'm a single parent so I perhaps have more understanding of covering childcare. It's no excuse though not to ask you as its your house your rules OP.

In no other job can you just rock up to work with your child. I would ask her if everything is OK? How long has she been your cleaner for?

I assumed ‘Diego’ was some kind of street-talk for someone behaving like a crazy person!

Oh goodness you’re so angry and aggressive!
Over this thread! get a grip.
That’s the thing with MN anyone can post, are you actually a woman, or just a very angry man.

and she's cleaned OP's house for a year. What happened during the previous school holidays? Why is it suddenly an issue now?

If family childcare fell through for the summer holidays, it was up to her to say something to OP about it.

The book is equally as good but in a totally different way. İt's less dazzling than the series but so raw and real and honest. I keep meaning to read her second one where she's getting through college as a single mum.

I just had a thought that perhaps all cleaners should incorporate the cost of childcare into their services, by the hour. There'd soon be a shortage of cheap services, so people like the OP would have no choice.

How disgusting, not Diego- weird autocorrect.

She can look for another job. It will be easy because, as most people write here, it’s hard to find a good cleaner - obviously she’s not a good cleaner She won’t be asking the op for a reference as she didn’t ask before bringing her kid along.