Cleaner wants internet access - WWYD

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We have had our cleaner for several years. She's honest, reliable and does a reasonable job.
Our internet password is on the back of the box and at some point she has seen this and used it to sign into our network. I found out today because we have recently changed our password and she asked me for the new one, obviously forgetting she had never asked me for the password in the first place.
It's annoyed me, but we have unlimited data and in the time she's been using it, it's never caused a problem.
Should I give her the new password?

Say no. It was dishonest of her not to ask in the first place.

I've been a cleaner. I'd never have done that! I'd think I was supposed to be cleaning, not finding my nearest internet. All I would be doing behind the router is dusting. It honestly wouldn'tve entered my head. It seems a bit immature/cheeky to me.

I told our cleaner what the password was as soon as they started. They listen to music whilst cleaning or watch the news on their phone whilst ironing. Why on earth wouldn't you? Unless you're living in 1996, or running off a sim card, most standard 'data packages' are unlimited.

Signing into the wifi, whatever next. I hope you’ve checked that the silverware and grandmother’s pearls are all still present and correct.

Yes..being connected to your WiFi might be the only way she could receive or make an important phone call if she is payg with no phone credit

Can you set up a guest network on your router?

@PastMyBestBeforeDate Why should OP go out of her way to do something obscure to set up something to provide free internet for her cleaner? And one who has been using it without asking?

My god. Next she’ll be wanting to use your door mat to wipe her bloody shoes on. The cheek of it all.

Seriously though, I didn’t know people were this uptight about things. You’d be annoyed if your friend used your WiFi? So strange.

Yes..being connected to your WiFi might be the only way she could receive or make an important phone call if she is payg with no phone credit

@Linzi2377 Is OP her mum? She should've asked. But she didn't because she was secretly using their data to get free music or whatever.

@Derbee

My god. Next she’ll be wanting to use your door mat to wipe her bloody shoes on. The cheek of it all.

Seriously though, I didn’t know people were this uptight about things. You’d be annoyed if your friend used your WiFi? So strange.

As long as she doesn't use the toilet for a poo 😂😂

My cleaner must be really weird then. Two years she has been cleaning out house and doesn’t have our Wi-Fi code nor have had any reason to think to give it to her

I wouldn’t anyway. I sell on Etsy. Etsy are known to track ip addresses and close down shops should a common IP address show up between shops if one of those shops has had issues.

I didn’t know people were this uptight about things. You’d be annoyed if your friend used your WiFi? So strange

@Derbee It's the sneakiness that's strange. If a friend sneaked in my bedroom, copied down the wifi password so she could get on it without asking, I'd find that cheeky and weird.

Absolutely not.

My cleaner uses his own phone/data package. You should be protective of your WiFi.

Why wouldn’t you?

@SoulofanAggron

I didn’t know people were this uptight about things. You’d be annoyed if your friend used your WiFi? So strange

@Derbee It's the sneakiness that's strange. If a friend sneaked in my bedroom, copied down the wifi password so she could get on it without asking, I'd find that cheeky and weird.

But what if she came in weekly to water the plants and it was on your fridge? The cleaner isn't sneaking around, she's cleaning. She's moved whatever has the password on to clean it and quote possibly not realised people have WiFi with limits on how much they can download (which is something new I've learnt to tonight)

Today 00:45 Derbee

My god. Next she’ll be wanting to use your door mat to wipe her bloody shoes on. The cheek of it all.

^^ this made me LOL

Jesus though OP , I use WIFI at my workplace too. This is such a non issue. As a minimum wage worker (I suspect) she hasn't got the luxury of unlimited data . It runs in the background even when not using, let alone when playing music/podcasts etc.

To deny her the password just makes you a poor employer.

@BlankProfile you silly woman of course you should let her have the password. She’s a cleaner not a slave 🙄

The cleaner isn't sneaking around, she's cleaning. She's moved whatever has the password on to clean it and quote possibly not realised people have WiFi with limits on how much they can download (which is something new I've learnt to tonight)

@SleepingStandingUp I just would not assume that I could let myself on someone's passworded wifi- there's a pass word. If you want the password, you ask for it, that's the whole point of passwords. I also would be spending my time cleaning, which I was being paid for, rather than doing that for myself. Stuff for myself I do on my own dime.

I'm amazed that so many of you think taking the password without asking or mentioning it is OK. Just shows how it of touch I am with this sort of thing. I would never walk into someone's house and take their WiFi logon details without checking with them.

Why does not giving her internet access make her a slave? If that's the case, most of my life has been spent in slavery. I had no idea I was beng oppressed.

@SoulofanAggron

The cleaner isn't sneaking around, she's cleaning. She's moved whatever has the password on to clean it and quote possibly not realised people have WiFi with limits on how much they can download (which is something new I've learnt to tonight)

@SleepingStandingUp I just would not assume that I could let myself on someone's passworded wifi- there's a pass word. If you want the password, you ask for it, that's the whole point of passwords. I also would be spending my time cleaning, which I was being paid for, rather than doing that for myself. Stuff for myself I do on my own dime.

I'd ask too, I just don't think I'd be able to get this worked up when she hasn't been sneaking around to get it, she's asked this time so clearly doesn't think it's controversial which makes me think her using it last time wasn't an act of deviancy.

And doing what stuff?? Putting a password in once that takes about two minutes to do?

I wouldn’t give her a password. I don’t give WiFi password to anyone, it’s security issue. Also she didn’t know that Internet’s unlimited and used it without asking. I wouldn’t like it, what else she did without asking?

She should have ask and are you certain she didn’t ask your partner? Or someone else in your household?

Soulof it's hardly 'obscure'. It took ten minutes on my old router and it comes as default on my current router.

Pretty sure she didn't ask anyone else - only me here in the day to ask,.

@greenlynx

I wouldn’t give her a password. I don’t give WiFi password to anyone, it’s security issue. Also she didn’t know that Internet’s unlimited and used it without asking. I wouldn’t like it, what else she did without asking?

Tbf I didn't know people had limited WiFi in their homes. I'm not the one in charge of the WiFi at home, I just use it...

What else do you think she's been doing without asking?