To have said this to my cleaner?

I’m a cleaner but I draw the line at cleaning up sick or poo. I’ve actually been in this position with pet sick when I arrived and there was a note on the side that said.. Cats been sick, please leave that for me to sort later and clean around it.
I’ve had the same sort of note left regarding poo/sick when I used to clean a pub. The landlord cleaned anything like that himself, it wasn’t expected of me and I wouldn’t have done it if it was.

Yeah good one OP 😂

Do you think leaving cat sick for your cleaner to clean and then sending a follow up message questioning why she didn’t clean it up is ok?

OP, as you will doubtless have realised by now, complaining about a cleaner on Mumsnet is a fool's errand! You will nearly always be blamed and rarely supported.

You just can’t get the staff these days, can you?

If you noticed cat sick in the specific room you asked her to clean, you should have dealt with it yourself before she arrived. If you genuinely didn't have time to do this, you should have messaged her and said hello! I have just noticed my cat was sick last night in the utility room, please leave this room today and I will clean it up myself later, thanks!

She now absolutely thinks you expect her to clean up cat vom and quite rightly is drawing a line at that. You could try apologising and explaining you absolutely did not expect her to clean the sick, but she likely won't come back anyway.

I had the same but was, actually, there when she found it

I, too, was mortified but she was absolutely fine about it and cleared it up.

If I had a cleaner, I wouldn’t give you their number either! There’s a good reason your cleaners don’t stick around for long…..

100% and this is also what she meant by 'the thing we never spoke about'.

Cleaners are there to help keep things spick and span, not to deal with goo that comes out of living beings.

I once got a text from my cleaner (she’d come while we were away) saying she’d found some dried up cat sick behind the sofa and she had done her best to clean it up!! I was absolutely mortified both that she’s found it when I hadn’t noticed it, and that she cleaned it up!!!

Shed given you the benefit of the doubt and thought that you didn’t know about the cat sick, and she had left it for you to deal with it and not mentioned it to save embarrassing you. Now she thinks that as you already knew about the cat sick and have specifically mentioned it not being cleaned, that you’ve purposely left it there for her to deal with. I doubt she’ll be coming back.

This is grim why should she have to clean cat sick?

Yeah op you need to work on your communication skills. As a former cleaner there is absolutely no way in hell I would have cleaned up someone else's cat sick. Ridiculous that you expected her to!

Visible bodily emissions are not for the cleaner. That’s skivvying.

What do you mean ‘this one isn’t all that great - she’s one of the best at cleaning - by far the most reliable’.

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What you say doesn't add up, OP. You only noticed the cat vomit on the way out but it was dried on the cupboard door? It must have been there 24 hours or so to be dry, in which case you must have noticed it before. It therefore looks as though you left it for the cleaner instead of getting your Marigolds on, digging out the disinfectant and getting on with it.

”I had to wait ages for her to find a slot for me”

You mean you had to wait until your neighbour died and then went asking for the poor woman’s slot 😟

Then leaving manky cat sick for her to clean, have you no shame at all?!

If this happened to me I’d text my cleaner saying ‘omg the cat has spewed in the laundry sorry, noticed it on my way out when I was late. I’ll clean it up when I’m back! 🙂’

But I really like my cleaner and I wouldn’t expect anyone to clean up cat sick that I’d left for them.

So she isnt all that great, but she is the most reliable and one of the best cleaners you have had?
You really do sound like hard work...

My Q too.

You would do that to someone who was dispensable! No way would I lose a good cleaner over that, and on top, over something I have already cleaned up!

If you had cleaned it off, why follow it with the texting? In that case first message would have been enough- please clean this room.

She answered diplomatically: saying she had cleaned it but would ensure proper clean next time.

that was enough, don’t you think?

I’d literally be mortified to receive that message. lol. Have you no sense of embarrassment? She knows you left cat sick for her to clean up and you didn’t apologise but instead implied she didn’t do a good job because she left it for you to clean up.

My cleaner didn’t even pull out a clean litter tray to hoover behind it, and I never asked her to because I’ve hired her to clean my house, not clean up after my pets. I’d rather she would obviously but some people are funny about animals and so I just did that myself

Sorry haven’t read the whole thread .

@wellwatnow yes, she is not coming back.

Dod her duties include cleaning after the cat?

I like clean places and clean better than cleaners so I tend to clean myself. If I was ever asked to clean a house/ flat (free or at a fee), I would leave it clean and would not leave anything dirty which I had seen- except it if needed a big clean and had run out of time.

what I am saying, I understand cleaners get given tasks: mop floor, hoover, wipe cupboards, door handle, dust, wipe window sills etc etc. But do you want to say if through kitchen door I see plastic bag have been blown into garden by the wind, I would just look at it because my areas of cleaning/ tasks do not include the garden? Genuine Q.

Either you have extremely bad luck or you’re just insufferable as an employer to go through these many cleaners.

Probably the latter.