My cleaner has been coming to me for about 3-4 years. Sometimes she brings a friend and they do an hour each rather than one person doing 2 hours. Makes no odds to me. Invariably the friend does not speak much English (they are Polish) and so I just pay my original cleaner £20 and presume they sort it out amongst themselves. She has probably brought 4 different friends over the last 3 years and always texts me first to ask if it is ok. She used to live near me but I found out they were recently evicted from their house for being over populated. I don't know where she lives now and for the last 3 weeks she has just sent her friend to clean and has text me to ask what I need doing. Each week I try to pay her friend but she refuses to take the money. My original cleaner keeps saying she will pick up the money but hasn't.
I now have £120 for her as my FIL has dropped his money off here for my cleaner to collect as well (he is in the same situation).
I am questioning why the friend won't take the money and wondering how the friend is being paid if I have all the cash here?
AIBU to think this is a very odd and to be a bit worried about the friend.