To think cleaner could have flushed the loo?

[Furiousaboutinstarubbish]

Is this an unreasonable expectation? Ds 7 had done a poo without me realising and not flushed. Isn't that just a given when you're cleaning the bathroom?

Oh another one who can give tips, please. What can I do other than tell them to flush the stupid thing? Which I do, ad infinitum...

How disgusting.

Wtf is wrong with people??! unless I've not read the op properly there wasn't anything to 'deal with' - no humongous poo splatters or piles on the seat/floor - just a lever to push?! Heck I've 'dealt' With the poo of total strangers in public loos if someone's forgotten/left a floater, with no lasting physical or psychological damage and I'm not someone for whom cleaning is supposed to be my profession!

I would absolutely be a bit annoyed if it looked like she'd deliberately missed it to make a point. I'd also definitely have a word with DS as well though!

@BrutusMcDogface I tell them, and then if they keep at it I take something away (toy, tablet, something they like) until they remember.

I’m their Mum not a feckin skivvy and it’s disgusting not to flush the toilet.

You owe her an an apology.

I just realised that sounded smug, it wasn’t meant to. I’m a pretty laid back mum, I just think that leaving faeces/urine in the toilet as standard is really rude and inconsiderate so I clamp down on it.
What if they did it at school? Or their friend’s houses? Is my thinking when drumming it into them. Or was, since they don’t do it any more.

7 Year Old in ‘Forgetting to Flush Loo’ Shocker

Shame on you OP for not checking the bog every single time your young child has a number two.

And I do think it might have made cleaning a lot easier had cleaner simply flushed the offending article away first.

Right. You think the poo was in the loo before she cleaned the bathroom and was still in there when she had finished.

How can you be sure?

But if this is indeed the case then she can't have cleaned the loo properly surely ... in which case YANBU.

Maybe she did (and your son) and it was one of those poos that won't go down.

Fucking hell.

Yes it’s irritating when a kid forgets to flush but fgs the reactions on here are out of this world.

To answer your question OP, yes I would expect the toilet to have the lid put down and flushed by a cleaner.

Yes it’s irritating when a kid forgets to flush but fgs the reactions on here are out of this world

And if they’re never pulled up on it who does it? Their teachers? Friend’s parents? Their boss?

I’m a cleaner. This happens often. I just close the lid and flush before cleaning the loo.

Would have thought it's just part of the job, no?

Said with all the faux-innocence of someone trying to cause a fracas over not very much at all

Hilarious all the posters saying 7yos should flush. Yes they should but my 2 6.5yos rarely do despite serious nagging. I doubt that'll suddenly change at 7! They empty the dishwasher every morning and are fab at washing their hands but loo flushing? 😳🙈

I also have children who sometimes “forget” to flush. They get marched back. I’ve actually started deducting pocket money for unflushed loos. You want me to clean up your shit then you’ll pay for it.

Yes, of course she should have flushed and cleaned.

Hilarious that a poster regards flushing a toilet as outside of scope,as,it amounts to tidying up -Cleaners clean not tidy / flushing the loo is tidying.

@ZibbidooZibbidooZibbidoo that’s genius

Teach your child to flush! Disgusting

My kids are disgusting and like animals in the bathroom despite endless nagging (they do have sn). So I don't expect my cleaner to do bathrooms, I do them.

Of course she should of flushed the loo as presumably she is meant to clean the Loo?

And no the cleaner wasn’t expected to deal with the poo. She didn’t need to touch it or pick it up with her hands, just pull the chain

Child forgets to flush the loo absolute shocker send him to bed with no dinner for a month OP, this is mumsnet and it’s outrageous a child should forget he must be punished

I did a couple of years of cleaning while all the DCs were little. One place wanted me to strip and re-make the beds as well as clean (5 bedrooms) and the late teen son's bed would always have a rock hard tissue or two stashed among the duvet folds

It's one of the reasons i left in the end. Was never bold enough to say so. Only early 20s myself.

Cleaning other people's houses is horrible sometimes.

To me, the issue isn't weather she should or shouldn't flush, surely it's more why wouldn't she? I'm sure it wouldn't have created extra work for her, 2 seconds and it's done, gone. Then she could carry on with her work as normal.

Oh haha yes the child forgot I mean it’s not like the cleaner is an actual human who shouldn’t have to deal with other people’s shit is it?

Is the overall impression from most posters on here.

Fucks sake.

I would find it weird if a toilet had been cleaned and then not flushed, so it would make me think it hadn’t been cleaned.

However, it is not your cleaners job to ensure disposal of your child’s feces, they’re a cleaner, not a servant.

The cleaner didn’t have to deal with the poo unless it was threatening to attack her. Just to close the lid and flush that’s all it normally takes. I’d be pissed off in your place.