AIBU to expect cleaner to change hoover bag?

[Cutiecat]

I have had this cleaner for 6 months and have in the past I have changed the bag inbetween visits but on a couple of occasions it has been full when she is here. When this has happened she has asked me to change it, which I have done and I have showed her how to do it. Yesterday I was in the middle of working (I work from home) and she came and asked me to do it. I asked in a cheery voice, that the bags were in the cupboard and could she do it. She did not reply and then went shortly after. I just go the hoover out to hoover up asmashed bauble (I know, why did I let DD aged 1 help decorate the tree) and bag was full to bursting. AIBU to think this is part of the job?

Because all she has to do is SAY she doesn't understand how. Just not doing something you have been asked to do isn't acceptable in any other job, why are you patronising cleaners by suggesting that normal rules don't apply to them?

Maybe she's proud. Maybe she's not very confident.

Or maybe she's an utter bitch.

I doubt very much she thinks it's beneath her. She cleans up other people's dirt, after all.

I'm not outraged, just a bit confused why the cleaner does not change the hoover bag, especially when she has been shown how to...sorry just don't get it.

OP our cleaner doesn't empty our Dyson and I know she knows all about Dysons as we had a big chat about them before she started.

She is in all other respects fab, so I empty it in between her visits, but I don't think I would be happy if I was working from home and she asked me to do it whist I was working. But also you will come across as being odd if you question it so I guess you are stuck and just make sure to change the bag before she comes.

I don't think this is a class thing. I do earn a bit (but not loads more) than £12 an hour and there is a lot of stuff that I am asked to do that isn't specifically in my job contract. Provided it doesn't put me over my hours then I generally do it.

I would have thought that changing a hoover bag would constitue part of cleaning, but then I also thought that washing out the odd glass in the sink would be part of it as well and have been proved wrong so there you go.

Oh and I pay our cleaner £12.50 PER HOUR, not per visit. Its not really that surprising an amount.

YANBU.

She doesn't change the hoover bag because she doesn't want to. She has been shown how to. She says she is a cleaner. If she is a decent cleaner then she would be able to change a hoover bag once shown. She's not.
Op, find another cleaner.

Ha ha so much inverted snobbery on this thread.

The cleaner isn't in some sort of domestic slave arrangement.

She's a cleaner. Being paid to clean. And part of cleaning is to empty the hoover bag. I don't get where all the 'it's not her job' bull comes from. So petty.

And why on earth are people disputing the amount the OP pays??

its not 'not her job' bullshit

its more like talk to her bullshit

so much covert snobbery on MN