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!!

I'd be looking at your teenage son and possibly your husband. Why doesn't he drink? I'm not judging but if it's because he's a recovering alcoholic he could be having a relapse and hiding it very well. When I was 13 I stole my dad's gin and put it in my water bottle and brought it into school and we all got drunk in PE...

Have you thought that she may have mistaken the pink gin for detergent?

Now that is one giant leap for mankind pmsl

DS and friend both 13 hit my cabinet whilst I was shopping, friend then left collapsed outside a shop ambulance called in the hospital they pumped his stomach out. At thirteen they do this.

Coincidental that the one time the cleaner comes, coincides with the first time the 13 yo decides to experiment with pink gin...........

That answer that question for you

No, how does " he doesn't drink" answer the question on " why not, is he an alcoholic?

You're gonna have to explain that one..

This thread is batshit.

The DH is a recovering alco who has relapsed on pink gin
The cleaner mistook a bottle of gin for Zoflora
The 13 yo decided to nick the pink gin.

FFS. It's fairly fucking obvious who the culprit is. She's hardly going to admit it!

It might have been the cleaner, it might not. You seem fairly certain it’s the cleaner, hence your title. Lucky escape for her, I think!

I'd say if the DH was a recovering alcoholic, the OP would have mentioned it..........

@Bluntness100

My husband does not drink alcohol because he doesn’t like alcohol or what it does to his body. He does not drink at all.

He is teetotal through choice.

The one time he had alcohol he was violently sick.

I hope that clears that up for you.

I'm biased as 1 out of 2 cleaners turned out to be a tea-leaf. Scummy bitch.

Perhaps read her posts

It depends on whether he doesn't drink as a lifetime teetotaller or a recovering alcoholic. Its relevant before condemning some poor woman just trying to earn a living.

This thread is interesting, but not sure why I’ve been called loon and laughed at.

So you joined MN just to discuss accusing an agency cleaner of theft?

Because your 13 yr old is too honest and DH wouldn't touch a drop so it must be someone who an agency have found reliable?

OK.

We're all just trying to earn a living. Cleaners don't deserve extra sympathy lol.

OK you haven't had much help so here is some.
Request that this cleaner does not come back. Buy some more Gin. Keep it somewhere else.

We need diagram to show the location of the gin and it's proximity to your son's bedrooms.

Maybe she used some to make your silverware shine?

OP, can you report back if a new cleaner has come in and the gin level has once again gone down? grin
She can, but she won't, @Liriope - far too embarrassing.

Seriously though if you're worried, a nanny cam can help establish who did it if it happens again.
It would have been sensible to install a nanny cam as soon as OP had suspicions, as if the theft re-occured OP would have the proof she needed.
Instead, she preferred to go off half-cocked at the cleaner's employer.
Bit of an own goal there. Let alone sullying some other woman's reputation on a whim - shameful.

I drank half a bottle of vodka from my mums cupboard when I was 13. 13 year olds think they are older than they are

install a nanny cam

Pretty sure that's illegal

Perhaps I could have chosen a better selection of words.

I actually posted to ask for advice. What would one do if they suspected the cleaner of drinking their alcohol?

I’ve never had a cleaner before or any experienced this. What would one do in the situation?

Many replies saying, possibility it may be my ds. Yes not impossible, but not impossible that it’s her.

However, once having an inkling or thought that it possibly could be the cleaner, who is in our home alone, the trust has been broken.

Who would have a cleaner in their home of trust had been broken?

I don’t want her to lose her job and she hasn’t but once trust has gone, unsure how to move forward with her continuing in my home. That may work for some but not for us.

I think you need to ask your 13 year old about the missing gin. I suspect your answers will lie there !!

My money is on the DH or the ds. If everyone became teetotal after one bad time with alcohol there wouldn't be an alcohol industry let alone the multi billion pound one is today

I work with 13 yo if I had a quid for everytime they did something which we did when I was that age . I could buy a new bottle of pink gin. 13yo wouldn't think to top up with water a a cleaner would. Maybe talk to teens friends parents to see if they've had any mysteriously missing drinks.

You all started drinking at a very young age!

You can’t accuse someone without proof. You should have set up a camera and kept quiet.