To have said this to my cleaner?

Yes you need to show your cleaners more respect. No wonder you've had so many!

Why wouldn't your friends give you their cleaners numbers? That makes me think you have a reputation.

Of course gardeners don't pick up poo! Good grief! 🙄

I've never had a cleaner but would you not expect her to clean up cat sick? If I noticed my cat had been sick, I'd clean it straight away. If I hadn't, I'd assume the cleaner would clean.it.

But you did leave it for her to clean up as you said in a previous post you noticed it on your way out but were in a rush.
You could have dropped her a message to say you had noticed it & would deal with it yourself when you got home.

As someone who has cleaned before, it can be heavy going when you feel you are being nit-picked. I worked for someone who was always looking for things to pick me up on, whilst ignoring/not seeing all the extra things I did as I went along. Nothing will ever be ''perfect' - if you look for imperfections, you will find them - but if you know you have a good worker and someone who is reliable then quite frankly, you're on to a winner.

Yes. Horrible attitude.

Oh boo hoo, I can't get a cleaner. No wonder you have had so many.

I don't necessarily think a tiny bit of dried cat sick equates to a huge mound of vomit, but I wouldn't have made the comment either

Out of interest, would people ask gardeners to pick up any cat poo/dead birds that they come across?

Are you stupid? You do realise self-employed people are not obliged to work for anyone they don't wish to work for?

If they don't like you they will leave.

Even on my procurement training course, the trainer reminded us that our contractors will be judging us on how much of a pain of an arse we are to contract with and work with, against all their other options and the value of the contract.

Your purchase of two hours a week of cleaning does not give you the entitlement and power you seem to think it does.

It doesn't really give you any over someone who can just tell you to get lost and go to work for someone else.

Just message her and say you hope you hadn't offended her and that she doesn't take it personally, that you were stressed, yadayada.

Some cats like to sleep on top of the cupboards am thinking he as leaned over to vomit and its gone down the door of the cupboard, not a nice site to see never mind clean,

I would not expect a cleaner to clean poo or sick. Everything except bodily excrement and fluids yes. Really these sort of things should be cleaned up as soon as they happen. Most decent people clean their own skid marks and sick up.

Assuming a whole room hadn't been cleaned because once cat sick cupboard has been left is rude. You could have just said I noticed you missed this cupboard. But if you have noticed cat sick on a cupboard and not cleaned it off yourself you are the problem here. I can see why she won't be back.
People who employ cleaners often forget they need their cleaner more than their cleaner needs them!

The OP saw it first... and lett the house.
Also she's said that her cleaner doesn't charge per hour, and that certain tasks are not done on a weekly basis etc (not due to be done), and that when meeting the cleaner first they came to look at the house and she priced based on the work to be done.

I highly doubt "cleaning animal sick" was on that list

Would you leave your own puke on the floor for a cleaner to clean up? Of course you wouldn't. You all understand the objections exactly. And people failing to respect this cleaner's boundaries over it are shameful.

I think that a domestic cleaner is well within rights to refuse to clean sick/poo/wee/blood. It's not part of a normal clean. Imagine it was a big dog turd on the floor? I'd probably expect the cleaner to contact me and say 'there's a dog turd on the floor, I don't want to clean it/cleaning it will be an extra £20', rather than simply leaving it, but would not leave that kind of thing for a cleaner to deal with because it's absolutely not within the remit of an everyday clean.

Ps. I’d rather clean up cat sick than a toilet, so not quite sure where people’s boundaries lie.. never mind if they’re paid to be cleaners, who have conditions on what they will and won’t clean.

‘You think it's ok that cleaners clean cat sick - other people don't’

What? If there’s cat sick clean it up. That’s my point. If you’re a cleaner, clean it. If it’s your house, clean it. Whoever sees it first is the lucky one.

You think it's ok that cleaners clean cat sick - other people don't. If the cleaner didn't want to clean cat sick - that's clearly up to them. Where do we draw the line - puke? Shit?

Sorry no. Not for that amount of money. Clean it yourself

Of course they can. I was referring to the first part of the statement ‘What you are clearly not understanding is that …’

‘It doesn’t matter that 1 or 2% on this forum think that cleaners should clean pets sick, and on top they should work for disrespectful people…’

Ignoring your questionable statistics, a cleaner’s job is to clean. Ergo if there’s sick, clean the sick. It’s literally the job of a cleaner. Clean. Unless there’s an exception in the contract *do not clean x,y, z.

Are you suggesting people who pay a cleaner to clean, are disrespectful?

What's illogical about that? A self-employed person can choose which jobs they want to do.

‘What you are clearly not understanding is that self employed cleaners are completely within their rights to up and leave if they don't like the way they are being spoken to or treated’

How did you reach that illogical conclusion?

The cleaner voted with her feet. And rightly so! She gets to decide who and how she provides services to.

It doesn’t matter that 1 or 2% on this forum think that cleaners should clean pets sick, and on top they should work for disrespectful people…