How do I ask the cleaning lady to stop singing

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for 4 hours she sings non stop, its driving me to distraction!

She generally is very noisy, very heavy handed. I now realise the constant vacuuming is because she never bothers to turn off the vacuum when she is doing something else, but the singing I can't deal with anymore.

How do I tell her (preferably politely) that she needs to shut up.

At singing, I mean

Loving some of the responses here.

Sorry Op, no advice, but good luck!

What sort of things does she sing? Show tunes, opera, Gregorian chants?

LOL

She sings okay, not horrible but not brilliant ! They all seem to be in her own language, but not opera or gregorian chants . Her cleaning is good.

She is not arrogant, but certainly a bit clueless, I have been on a phone call, where she came up to my face, waving some empty product bottle, interrupting me to ask if I have any more. Walking into the kids bedroom and tidying around them, while they were doing an online class, just no awareness.

Oh, and I made a carrot cake last week for the kids, hadn't made one in ages, and she ate half of it before anyone got a slice, and I am not exaggerating when I say half of it. It can't even have been cooled down when she got at it. When I said 'oh you have helped yourself to the cake I made for the kids' she did look a tad embarrassed, but just replied that 'you make a really nice carrot cake', LOL no apology.

So, absolutely no clue whatsoever.

Anyway, its the singing which I need to stop pronto, so I will be discussing that next time she comes.

I'm amazed she can clean at all with all that chaos round her. Having to be quiet due to your work and kids work.
I thought people were out when their cleaners came.

Fortunately, there is no chaos at all in our house, it is all very calm and quiet normally, until she arrives and starts

She ate your cake!!! She ate your cake!!!

Duet?

That would drive me mad too! I used to work with a woman who sang constantly and this was in an office. It used to drive everyone bananas. One day, someone stood up and said, 'Nicola (not her name), you're disrupting everyone within earshot. Please can you work from home if you want to sing all day? Thank you!'

She did at least shut up after that, but she was one of these people who always has to make a noise somehow. If it wasn't singing, it was loudly laughing then looking sideways waiting for someone to ask her what was funny or crashing her stuff around on her desk.

Before the pedants jump on me, it wasn't literally all day, it was a mixture of humming and under-the-breath singing punctuated by bursts of lines of songs out loud.

Could you get a cordless vacuum cleaner, she will have to turn it off when she's not using it as otherwise the battery will run flat?

and could you get a vocal-cordless cleaning lady?

She ate your cake, unless she was invited to that’s really rude.

She ate your cake 😩

The cake eating is so rude. I'd find another cleaner, all things considered.

Oh for fuck's sake. After you last update I would be finding a new cleaner. She's annoying, clueless and a theif. She has got to go.

She ate your cake? !!! The singing is totally insignificant next to that!!! This woman obviously has no boundaries and I'd be looking for another cleaner who could come in when it suits me, doesn't sing and is diabetic or on a weight-loss programme. Good cleaners may be hard to find where you live but this woman isn't one of them. Ate your cake!!!

She ate half a cake??

Get rid. Find a new cleaner who can work during the day, doesn't disturb the family and doesn't steal your food.

If the time was changed to suit her, I think I'd say the new time isn't working out can we have another look at you coming at another time. See if you can get any compromise that way. And hide the cakes!

You should learn the songs she’s singing and learn the harmony. Every time she starts singing pop up from whichever corner you’re lurking in and join in.

“MY ENDLESS LOOOOOVVVVEEEEE!!!”

While eating a cake you can't be at all certain is for you, is pretty awful, I'm really not sure it's 'theft'. Calling her a thief is a bit much.

Hahaha. That's hilarious re her eating your cake! Why would anyone think that was ok? It's really made me laugh
So even putting cake in her cake hole hasn't made her stfu?

I dunno, STFU, you are not Susan Boyle?

I'd tell her that those hours don't work for you, let her re-arrange (and sing) for someone else.

Sounds like you are compromising on lots of things with this cleaner OP.

Can’t believe she ate half the cake!

Can you harmonise, op?

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Can you harmonise, op?

Haha, that might be the solution to getting her to shut up