Help- cleaner drank my gin!

[kayde12]

Hi all,
I’m new to mumsnet, but would really love some advice!

I’ve just signed up to a cleaning company and had my first clean, which I was thrilled about.
Then I noticed that half of my bottle of pink drink has gone!
I only got the bottle given to me as a gift last week from my sister in law.
My Dh doesn’t drink and I have my two ds in the house.
It was the cleaner definitely!
The company have been awful at getting back to me and sent me a poor email saying she said she didn’t drink it and was too early in the morning.

I feel really gutted and not sure how to move forward or get some sort of justice!!

Alcoholics can be sneaky, i think shed have topped it up

I dont know any cleaner (im one myself) who would risk their job for a bit of alcohol or a bloody fiver

There are many people in this thread alone who have said they know their cleaner has stole from them and drunk their alcohol.

As for the risking the job part, we recently had to sack someone who was drunk at work after multiple warnings. If people cant even get sober for their loved ones, they certainly aren't going to be able to for a job.

Maybe it wasnt her- but this whole "she wouldnt risk her job" is a clear indication people know nothing about addiction, sadly.

Ah. Cleaner is a thief and an alcoholic now. Strange how everyone seems to know her.

Of course cleaners have been known to steal things. However you would have to be pretty stupid not to cover your tracks and add water. If she had done this would have probably taken much longer to find out if she ever did and she probably wouldn't have thought it was a cleaner. Of course cleaner may have been stupid but it seems more the kind of thing 13-year-old or perhaps his friends wouldn't think of.

And if she was an alcoholic she would definitely think of adding water.

Cleaner is a thief and an alcoholic now. Strange how everyone seems to know her

I have no idea if she is or not. I'm simply saying this idea that "noone would risk their job for a drink" is utter BS. People do get sacked all the time for drinking on the job. I just sacked someone last week for drinking. People risk their jobs for stupid shit all the time- so using that as a "this means she couldn't possibly have done it" is not the case

Well obviously- she's known her son for 13 years

Seriously? Do you have any idea how many parents would say their kid would never do x,y or z and then are shocked when they do? Did you not hide things you did from your parents? Cmon.🤣

Seriously? Do you have any idea how many parents would say their kid would never do x,y or z and then are shocked when they do? Did you not hide things you did from your parents? Cmon

So, you would say you'd know a complete stranger better than a member of your own family? Cmon.

Of course kids do stuff behind their parents backs but that doesn't mean he automatically did it. From OPs update, it sounds like he actually doesnt have any opportunity to be going out with his mates anyway

MatildaTheCat. I'll be your cleaner 😂😂

Of course it is possible it was the cleaner - it happened to my friend, many of her alcohol bottles started to diminish. She started to mark the level on the bottles and see the alcohol go down after each clean. Definitely get a different cleaner.

I know @Bluntness100.

I teach 5 year olds. We had parents in for a class assembly. One mother came up to me afterwards and complained that her son spent the whole time picking his nose. I told her that all 5 year old spend most of the day doing that. (Seriously, watch a year one or reception class for 5 minutes, if they aren’t picking their noses they are licking their shoes) She was shocked. She’d told him not to do it so couldn’t see why he would do. She believed that because she’d told him not to do it once then he wouldn’t do it and why didn’t I pull him up on it.

Fucking strangle the bitch with an iPhone charger

Rather extreme there.

There are a couple of people including me whose cleaners have drunk their alcohol. Mine is a hard drinking woman from E.Europe who is a lovely person and an excellent cleaner. I don’t mind her drinking the cooking brandy as long as it doesn’t affect her performance (it never has).

So it’s perfectly possible.

I have reported your post Karen.

So, you would say you'd know a complete stranger better than a member of your own family? Cmon

Eh? I didn't say he did it. . I said it could have been anyone with access to it. That she doesn't know it was the cleaner.

Im sure the problem will resolve itself when your 13 year old learns to top up the bottle with water.

Eh? I didn't say he did it

No,- you laughed at me when I said she's known her son for 13 years but she's known the cleaner for 5 minutes.

Thats what I'm saying- OP obviously thinks she knows her son better (as she has known him all his life) than a woman she's known for all of 5 minutes.

Would water work with pink gin though ? I’d have thought it would be very obvious

@mrsbyers yep it would dilute the colour surely.

I once stole some of my mums ouzo and topped it up with water not realising that adding water to ouzo makes it go cloudy. Basic teenage fail 😂

Being drunk numerous times at work is a bit different to going to a job for the first time and stealing half a bottle of your clients gin

Not everyone who doesn’t drink does so because they are an alcoholic.

I don’t drink. The most I will drink is half a glass of white wine maybe every 3-4 weeks with a nice meal.

I’m an emetophobe and I don’t like the feeling that alcohol gives you. (I felt the same about the gas and air in labour so I didn’t have pain relief). I’ve only ever been drunk once (a night out where I didn’t like the food). I can’t stand the taste or smell of spirits or beer.

It’s a sad world when everyone assumes that someone who does t drink must be an alcoholic.

Would water work with pink gin though ? I’d have thought it would be very obvious

Not as obvious as half of it missing tho surely

My neighbour had a cleaner who arrived drunk, fell over in the driveway and had to be helped up by another neighbour who then contacted the ladies son. No idea what happened as l moved soon after.

Also my friends DD was sent home from school for drinking with friends. One of the others at decanted vodka and they each had a mouthful and boasted about it to other pupils

So do we know if it was the cleaner yet?...
Did she do a good job??
My mum always cleaned pissed, some of her best work!