To be appalled at an email I’ve just received

[EltonHoratio]

I do a little bookkeeping in the evenings to help out with bills plus a little cleaning here and there.

The bookkeeping is for a holiday home company. I’ve been in email contact with an owner of a holiday home, let’s call her Joan. Joan is complaining about the cost of cleaning her three bedroom holiday cottage £60 is four hours at £15 an hour.

Not unusual for an owner to ask and it be explained it’s difficult to get cleaners in this area for less.

Joan has continued to complain and her last email explains the rigorous process she goes through to train her cleaners and to regularly turn up unannounced to check up on them, she proudly states they know she could turn up at any time but never know exactly when that will be. She claims it stops them wasting her time and money on fag breaks and playing on their phones! She proudly attached her own checklist of how to clean, including gems like hoovering carpets and cleaning toilets, who knew?

A quick stalk of her on Facebook and she’s one of these “I sold my soul to help the orphans of Cambodia”, plus she runs her own “charity”.

She’s a fucking hypocrite! Sorry just need to air this.

And i was hoping you were the boss of the woman making references to kings and royal mistresses

I too presumed these were linked! Or rather that the OP of the other thread was scripting two-parter.

Uh? I’m off to read the other thread, what’s it called?

Me too!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3630434--to-resign-in-embarrassmnet-and-emigrate-to-Timbuktu-mortified

resign in embarrassment OP

She runs her own charity so that she can score philanthropic points
She then spends those points by policing her minions

What has you being a bookkeeper got to do with it?

A bit like Jimmy savile, did a lot of work for charity and as a reward he treats himself by abusing children
(appreciate that it's a bit 'Godwin's law' to bring Jimmy savile into the conversation)

Exactly @Whosorrynow

@MT2017 being the bookkeeper is how I “met” this woman. She was complaining about her invoice.

She runs her own charity so that she can score philanthropic points
She then spends those points by policing her minions

Pretty much a vocal 'left wing working class background' stereo type, doubt this thread will stay though

The failure to practice what you preach....is that a left wing working class trope?

Absolutely none of this makes ANY sense 🙄🙄🙄🙄

What doesn’t make sense? Seems fairly simple to me.

Another one who was hoping you'd received a message about royal mistresses and not wanting to be fucked.

Or something.

Left wing working class? Really?
She’s a self important hypocrite showing how good she is helping orphans and hedgehogs publicly, whilst privately policing her cleaners who are helping make her richer?

So is the point of this that if people raise money for charity they should accept low standards of work from employees? Or that they shouldn’t own a holiday cottage?

Absolutely none of this makes ANY sense

I'm glad you said that Brainstormer.

No @trackingmedown, who said she was receiving low standards? She’s receiving a good clean at the going rate but doesn’t want to pay it.

The point is people shouldn’t hide behind goodness if they’re essentially a cunt!

No mistresses here then....

So Joan is complaining about the price of cleaning but also runs a cleaning company? If she was told the price beforehand then she can't complain.

Given the massive number of ‘help - my cleaner is leaving an hour early but tells me they do the full hours’ threads that are posted on here, I’m not sure that she is so unreasonable.

You are a bit odd for fb stalking her though.

WTF so the woman owns a cleaning company and checks that the people who work for her are doing their job properly ??? How strange if her

You OTOH stalk this woman on social media and post details of an email on the internet which is not your information to share???

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/housekeeping/3630036-Why-s-it-so-hard-to-find-a-good-honest-cleaner

Case in point ^ just popped up in active.