I have expectations!

[Iamacleaner]

I am a cleaner, a very good one.
I have a good client base and have only ever been recommended for jobs. Never advertised.
Occasionally been head hunted by sil/mil!

I have rules, just reasonable I think?!
AIBU?

1. If you want me to use my own cleaning tools, let me use your drive.

2. If a member of your household has been ill (novo virus) a little warning would be nice before I deal with the toilets.

3. If you want me to change bedding, obviously fine, can you please strip the bed yourself when you've done whatever it is you do that leaves the sheets covered in that. Also if you don't want vibrators wiped over with a zoflora cloth, don't leave them out.

4. Pervy members of you family will get a slap if they keep asking about uniforms and polishing knobs.

5. I will clean your house top to bottom to my standard (OCD), please don't ask me to not spend as long in one room so I can do something else you've thought of that's not my job! Pay a gardener.

Phew! That was quite cathartic!
I have name changed but been on here a while.

I'll give it a go, thanks!

The world needmore like you ! Your not ' just a cleaner ' and you could never be replaced by AI either!
I hope yourclients treat you at christmas.

Oh lamacleaner I wish I could employ you. I am one of those people who tidies up before the cleaner comes. And I give my lavatories a quick scrub most days. But I hate hoovering.

People who employ cleaners see them asg"lower" than them????? Really, really?I have a cleaner who supplies an essential service to me. As someone recovering from an illness, knowing that this dear woman will clean my house us a godsend. Rather than see her as "lower than me" (whatever that means) u see her as someone who us making my life just a little easier.

Are you a wum

Uh oh...

Oh ffs! I bet she goes through cleaners like tissues in a brothel.

Oh dear someone with no class at all has just turned up on this thread. The days of the Raj are that way ........................................>

I've just started employing a cleaner, and there's no way I see her as lower than me. I have just started a new teaching job that requires me to be out of the flat for 12 hours a day due to a horrendous commute, and I just can't cope with the cleaning. I would never leave poo in the toilet, dirty dishes or anything else disgusting. I used to be a cleaner myself to pay my way through uni, so how could I ever think I was above a cleaner when I've been one myself?? Btw, my cleaner is Polish, sends all her money home and is then going to go back to Poland to buy a house outright with the money she's saved in a few years. She's a qualified engineer. She's intelligent and ambitious and not below anyone!

Did anyone else get a whiff of zoflora as gincident came into the thread?

OP, you sound fantastic. Can I lure you to rural France please? I promise not to leave vomit, poo, crusty bedsheets or any sex toys. I am a model client. But my windows are a state, and my husband's home office looks like it has been sacked by Visigoths.Take pity on me!

I squeegee my shower doors after every shower. Reduces damp in the room and stops the marks. Takes about 10sec and have got a nice brushed steel squeegee that matches the bathroom.

Gincident

In answer to your points

1. They don't want me using their drive because they don't want people to know they have 'help' but they want me to use my own hoover, mops etc.

I suppose they think I could just be seen as a neighbour and the fact I'm carrying cleaning equipment is irrelevant. What on earth are you going on about with a postman relieving himself in the garden?

1. Of course I do. I also use gloves but a warning of the toilet would be nicer than a shit surprise.

1. It is upto them how they leave their bed. I am not unreasonable to complain about grown adults who leave shit smears over the sheets and expect me to change them. The vibrator was also smeared. If I clean it Off the bedding, stands to reason I'd be expected to clean that too

1. It's not the customer with the comments. It is a member of their family who thinks he is funny. He has been told to stop but if he touches me I will be within my rights to slap him.

1. You are wrong. What I do and what is expected is set out clearly before I choose to work for them.

Yes, I choose.

I am in fact, quite intelligent and was making use of my Oxford degree before I started doing this.
Most of my clients are either grandchildren of old money or incredibly rich new money who have no idea about anything practical.

I do this because I enjoy it and I can make a very good living doing a very easy job for only a few hours a day.

This also means I can pick and choose who I work for. I posted on here because I took the day off.

However, I am so pleased that none of my clients have such a warped sense of entitlement that you do.

I used to have a cleaner who was terribly worried that I didn't have children. One day my vibrator disappeared. I didn't move it. Husband didn't move it. I think she thought if I didn't have that, I might get on with sprogging

God I miss her! She was amazing. She'd had a terrible life, but you couldn't keep her down. I admired her enormously (even though I am so much above her station... )

Question for you OP: Knickers - our long-term cleaner would happily fold our clean undies and pack them away (DH/I washed them), our temp agency cleaner will pack away everything else but leave the knickers. Is there some taboo around (clean) knickers?

I should add that I did not, like Iams client, leave it in my shit smeared sheets (boak). It was tucked away safely, far from prying eyes, as such shameful objects should be

People use a cleaning service for a myriad of reasons. So please, Gincident, step down from your high horse.

Maybe take a leaf from your own book of considerations...

Gincident Our cleaner is a qualified nurse, midwife and teacher. She just didn't go back into those professions following the very premature birth of her only child, as it was much easier to arrange cleaning hours around her DD. If I thought she was beneath me, I would need to take a very long, hard look at herself. She does jobs which can be easily contracted out to somebody else - jobs which I think are very important, but that I cannot physically accommodate into my very long days out of home, including aspects of care for my disabled mother.

£35-£50 per hour, OP? Wow, London rates, eh? Ours does a full day (10-4pm) for £70.

Hughlaurie

Ozklean bath power. Get it in wilkinson!

sorry poochsmooch, as much as I love your name, I'm a London girl!

Elphaba

Yes, London prices!

I do lot for it though! Little things that are noticed and keep them happy! Sort flowers/pot plants, get the coffee maker ready for the morning, wash, iron and put away everything. I even prepare dinner if needed.

Essentialhummus

I don't have an issue with knickers, as long as they are clean! I won't iron them though!

Ah, well if you ever fancy a change of scene, let me know and I'll save up for you!

Just to amend my previous praise of ^^ cleaning product - it's Dettol, not Domestos.

Can I just say to nearly everyone on here: Thank You!
When I posted on here I wasn't sure what replies I would get, I was just getting out some of the frustrations of work but you've all been so supportive and lovely.

Except for one, although I don't bear any ill will. In fact think I'll have a check gin to prove it, who is joining me?