To set some traps for the cleaner?

[Dothetwist]

Not thinking the wire abd bucket kind...

I have never had an experience with a cleaner before, she starts tomorrow morning

I was wondering how people manage to gain trust in someone coming in to their house, I've given her a key and asked it to be posted back through each time..

Wibu to set some little traps? Like a dirt patch somewhere i would expect to be cleaned or a £10er somewhere?

My mum worked as a cleaner back in the early 70s. One woman she worked for continually set traps. One trap was a sheet of 1st class stamps hidden under a rug. My mum wet them and stuck them firmly to the polished wood floor and put the rug back on top.

I'd go one better OP, get a cat o'nine tails, a leather cat suit, and flail her as she works.
It'll make sure does things properly and as an added bonus she'll do not much quicker too.

Oh and for all of you that set crumb traps if you pay your cleaner by the hour say for 2 hours how do you know that they wouldn't have reached your crumb pile by the 121st minute?

mother yes i think you're right i am over thinking.

mild i don't have time to clean hence the cleaner... So i doubt i will have time for what you describe ffs

But you don't trust her, do you?

Last cleaning trap will just allow you to very quickly see whether she has cleaned, but just looking will do the same. If you can't tell whether something had been cleaned or not then it probably didn't need cleaning.

HOW WILL SHE GET IN NEXT TIME FFS

So bloody insulting.

liney the day before she comes i attend an appointment near to where she lives, we have agreed i will drop the key through her door on my way past.

thenight that's hilarious

That's not entirely efficient, OP.

My gut feeling is to trust her as she is lovely but you can't know for definite in these situations

Why liney ?? it suits us both fine.

OP Im pretty sure you are over thinking this. Surely you will be able to tell if she has cleaned thoroughly by, erm, seeing whether your house is thoroughly clean? It works for me!

the day before she comes i attend an appointment near to where she lives, we have agreed i will drop the key through her door on my way past.

And then she has to post it back after each session....

I wouldn't bother with your cunning little traps, you've made it pretty bloody clear you don't trust her, she'd have to be stupid to fall for them after that.

Hopefully she'll fuck you off after a while & you can go back to picking your own shit up....

Prof... You are quite right

Yabu.

If you're not happy with her work or she misses actual things you need doing, then talk to her. You won't need to set her up if she's bad at her job .

Isn't it usual to just keep the key?

So you trust her to have a key for 2 days, but not more?

It's easier for both of us, she said she would prefer not to have a key permanently and asked if we could put one of those key lock boxes outside on the wall but i can't put them into the brick work so we worked out this arrangement

Oh and she doesn't have to pick any of my shit up... Only clean. No need for vitriol really.

For those asking how would she get in next time would you give your new cleaner a key to keep permanently?

What a horrible approach to a new relationship with an employee.

I think the vitriol may be due to your awful attitude to your cleaner. Setting traps for someone you chose to employ?! Disgraceful, nasty and insulting behaviour.

I was a cleaner, still do a bit. I was always able to tell when new clients left clever little traps to check my work. Apart from the obvious eyeroll I always thought a little bit less of them - tainted our working relationship tbh.

If you think she's going to be so shit and lazy at cleaning; and think that she will steal from you why oh why are you hiring her?