When our cleaning/ironing lady ruins a white linen top?

[mamhaf]

How is it possible for someone to iron my lovely newish white linen blouse with an iron which obviously had muck on it from something black/purple previously ironed too hot - and then keep ironing the blouse so that there's not just one black/purple patch but about 10? And then hang it in the airing cupboard? And then take the £30 for 4 hours work? Am I being unreasonable to be furious to have to spend the last hour trying to scrub/pick off all the black bits? And for sacking her this morning? And for wanting to vent my feelings on MN rather than telling her the truth about why we don't need her services any more?

This thread is so old it's grown mold.

5 years old, ffs, leave the zombies buried.

Ah FFS! Why! For the love of the baba Jeebus, WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN!

I think the worst thing she did was hang it up and not confess. Everyone makes mistakes and people don't generally get the sack for one mistake. I have a cleaner and take it as read that she will occasionally break or damage something, as I do. Also as this is AIBU, I'll say bluntly that if she is an adult £30 for four hours isn't enough pay.