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?

Walk away from the thread OP, MN is an odd place when it comes to toilets.

Well you'd think she would have, after all she didn't have to touch the pooh in any way. Don't you flush the loo as part of the cleaning process anyway?

But she didn't and so you had to and that's not really a major thing is it?

How are you sure it was before she cleaned?

Jesus she should absolutely have flushed it away no one expects her to scoop it up with her bare hands! It's a flush! Keep an eye on what other jobs she may be missing and teach your soon to flush!

Rachie I imagine her son had left the house before the cleaner arrived!

I'm a cleaner, if I find a poo I just flush and get on with it! You can't clean without flushing first. If you can't handle seeing he occasional bit of poo as a cleaner you're in the wrong job.

Shit happens, literally

Ps I still wipe the floor with my dc if they don't flush or leave wee on the seat

I've seen it all now. A thread about an Unflushed shit.

Just bloody flush it!
My cleaner has been known to leave skid marks (her own!)

Blimey it would not have killed her to flush a poo!

But how can you know it was there before she arrived unless you saw it and also ignored it??

I flush any loo with any poo that I see. It’s really no big deal. Some people on mumsnet though get far more value out of their outrage that someone dared not to flush. So we must discuss it to death here, each page of outrage going one step further till the 7 yr olds parents are considered to be deserving of a visit from social services. Until someone points out that the 7 yr old might have sn, yards yada yada.

Definitely it wouldn’t have killed the Cleaner to flush. How did she clean the loo without flushing it??

I would be absolutely mortified if a cleaner came into my house and there was an unflushed shit in the loo. I definitely wouldn't be thinking that I was the wronged party. OP for all you know this isn't the first time she's been faced by one of your son's turds and this time she's decided not to deal with it

I can't believe I'm spending time reading and posting on this thread!

-yes, your cleaner should have flushed the turd as part of cleaning the bog. If she didn't flush it, then she damn well didn't clean it.

-it's a poo. In a toilet. It's not Armageddon.

-some children forget to flush the loo. Big fucking deal. They're children. They have more fun and important things to do with their time. You tell them eleventy fucking billion times and they still forget.

Oh and ps- if I have friends over, I always check the toilets to make sure none of my little heathens have left a deposit and forgotten to flush it. I also check for wee sprays from my little boy's rubbish aim. Again- they're children. They're in the process of growing into adults.

(Not all adults are capable of flushing a toilet or avoiding sprays- just read one of the public toilet threads )

I made this for our loo. My 7 year old still forgets every single time!!

I flush any loo with any poo that I see

You’re a true hero, @Hideandgo

How is everyone so delicate about seeing poo?

I agree it's quite possible she was making a point. Although many people are saying it wouldn't bother them too much, I fall in the other camp. Unflushed toilets give me the boak! Yes, all she needed to do was turn the handle, but we could say that about your son. We all have things that are not a big deal to us, and we all little things that we can't stand. I wouldn't expect a cleaner to deal with my baby's dirty nappy, or my 7 year old's poo, but I would expect a cleaner to clean a flushed toilet. If you're normally happy with your cleaner's work and your expectations normally match then I don't think you have an issue with the cleaner.

I know it was mentioned earlier but could it have just been an obstinate log?
My son 'left' one. He definitely flushed we all did. It was rather stubborn.. eventually it did go but could that have been a possibility?

Haha this thread is funny.
Op how lucky are you that one of the biggest issues you have had to face today is an unflushed toilet.
How do you know she hadn't already cleaned & it hadn't been done afterwards?
Yabu. And absolutely overreacting
Things can get missed I'm sure it wasn't done on purpose.

Yes it's easy to flush. But why the bloody hell should your cleaner be faced with your family's shit before she/he cleans because you're too lazy and entitled to flush before you leave the house.
It's not about easiness of flushing, it's about respect for others. I bet many of those who claim they're happy to leave their family's turds floating about at home for someone else to deal with actually recoil in horror when faced with a shit encrusted work toilet.

Who is claiming they’re happy to leave flushing to others? Aren’t the people who think flushing the loo isn’t a problem more likely to do the same at work. I’d expect the ones who think it’s a horrible thing to be faced with to be the ones who recoil in horror.

What's the relevance that it was your 7 year old? The cleaner doesn't know that? You could've done it and might have thought you were just massively disrespectful!

If I was a cleaner, my way of dealing with your disgusting turd(s) which you and your equally rank family had left behind would be to leave the toilet in the exact state in which you left it and you could clean up your own shit.
I'm a nurse and deal with people every day who can't help themselves and are mortified that we have to clean them up. I'm happy to do so, but would I flush and clean up after an able bodied family? Would I fuck.

What PunkRockerGirl59 said. Hear hear.

Punk rocker would you be happy to accept 30 pounds, tax free, for about 90 minutes work which includes bathroom cleaning in the remit, for a busy household with children who may forget to flush a toilet in an otherwise respectful and tidy house?