to have paid cleaner full amount?

[bolshevik]

I have had a cleaner for the last few months due to a (hopefully temporary) illness restricting my mobility. I work from home and usually when she's here I relocate to a cafe for a couple of hours but yesterday I had forgotten to arrange my schedule accordingly and consequently had a conference call which I could not do in public. I therefore used my living room which is my normal working space and just said to her to do the other rooms as normal and leave that one out so I could make my call. I still paid her the full rate I would have paid her for doing all the rooms.

According to my DSIS I am a mug and I should have given her less because she was here for less time?! I am surely not BU in paying her the full amount when I hadn't given her any notice?!

I don't think I was being a mug, I think I was just behaving normally, but my sister is always telling me I am being a pushover and she has made me doubt myself. AIBU?

Your sister’s an idiot. It was your choice not to allow her to clean that room and leave earlier. You did the moral and responsible thing.

What Alsohuman says.

I think you should pay her the full amount because it wasn’t her fault she couldn’t clean the room you were in. She has allocated that time to you.

Your sister is completely wrong.

You made the mistake, not the cleaner.

Your sister sounds like a CF. You did the right thing.

Well isn’t your sister a charmer?

Your sister sounds like a dick.

I'd have paid full amount. She didn't ask to finish early, you told her to.

Your sister is an idiot and you were completely right to pay the full amount it’s hardly the cleaners fault is it .

Cleaner should not be out of pocket because of your schedule conflict, it’s not like she can go and pick up another hour’s work at that notice and make it back is it? Your sister sounds like yet another person who thinks cleaners are shit on their shoe, and a tightarse to boot. Really unappealing character traits.

Thank you all, you have confirmed what I thought.

To clarify I have already paid her, I have no intention of paying her less.

I would have asked her to do something else with the spare time. Surely there are loads of things like cleaning out the fridge or doing a few windows? I find it’s better to ask my cleaner to be a bit flexible in what I ask her to do because, like you, I have mobility problems so my needs aren’t exactly the same every week.

I don't think you did have to pay her technically but it's always better to do the morally decent thing isn't it? Plus, good cleaners are invaluable and I would think that clients like your sister would be dropped at the first opportunity. I certainly have never shown any loyalty to employers that treat me badly but would always go out of my way for ones that have been decent.

There was nothing else for her to do, she already does the fridge as standard and I only live in a small flat.

Yes you did the right thing . She could of potentially took on another cleaning job in that time.