AIBU to ask if I was your cleaner

[Tootsey11]

Would you want to know my Ds was from today self isolating as he was sitting next to someone yesterday for 5 hours and now that person has tested positive.

I'm a cleaner in other people's homes. Ive been told I do not need to stay in but our house is that small I cannot socially distance from him.

Neither of us has symptoms, I've had CV in March.

Would you want me round to clean in the next 14 days?

[quote Tootsey11]@Meuniere I'm asking them because in case I already have it and don't want to bring it into their home.[/quote]
You could already have it from the supermarket or another client anyway. There's a point at which you have to stop worrying or causing others to worry.

Sorry!

You could already have it from the supermarket or another client anyway. There's a point at which you have to stop worrying or causing others to worry.

@Orangenasturtium there was me thinking this woman is determined to get her point across

@BeardieWeirdie imagine if OP does get COVID, she would have to tell her clients then and if they find out that she knew there was a risk of her having it when she was in their homes but didn’t say anything can’t you see how that could really impact on their relationship with her?

Trust is really important right now, especially when they’re trusting OP to go into their homes.

Good on you for letting them know OP. You’re doing the right thing.

I think you should let people know the situation and let them make the choice.
The thing is, you don't know other people's situations and everyone can only make the best risk assessment with the most information.

I would still want you to come to me, but I would want to be in control of that decision.

But then, if you weren't able to come, I would still pay you, as I paid my cleaner throughout the March - June shutdown.

@BeardieWeirdie the guidelines for self isolating if you have no symptoms but have been told to self isolate by T&T are:

"try to avoid contact with anyone you live with as much as possible"

ie stay in separate rooms unless you have no choice.

@Orangenasturtium there was me thinking this woman is determined to get her point across

It’s pretty hard to avoid contact with a 4-year-old! And not all of us have a second bathroom.

That's awful, I've always paid my cleaner if I have had to cancel a clean for any reason (only done it twice when DC was unwell and slept all day)
I can't believe people wouldn't pay, you still have to make a living!

@ItsmineAllmine

You don't need to let anyone know. You don't need to isolate, you can go to work as normal. No need to notify anyone.

What you HAVE to do & what it's decent to do aren't always the same thing!!

@Tootsey11. Yes, I'd want to know. I think it's the only decent thing to do. I would not want you to come, but I would still pay you.

@Tootsey11

In all my years as a cleaner, I have never been offered payment if a client has cancelled a clean.

No offer of payment.

You need to get contracts sorted and included cancellation payments. Including illness on both sides.

It would have necessarily covered thus situation, but probably would have covered most urged times they've cancelled.

@BeardieWeirdie

It’s pretty hard to avoid contact with a 4-year-old! And not all of us have a second bathroom.

Yes, it isn't always possible but those are the guidelines. The OP's DS is a teenager though so he should be able to follow the guidelines.

No but I would pay you anyway.

I budget to pay my cleaner 52 weeks per year so she gets paid when off, sick, over Christmas etc.

I would appreciate you telling me but I’d still want you to come.

We pay our cleaners if they’re ill (which in 8 years is hardly ever) or if we cancel, and then I give them around 4-5 weeks holiday pay a year too (though they’ve never used that much). I think this year with lockdown we’ve probably paid them more not to come than to come but we are just lucky that our incomes are stable.

We would not have you clean because we have a very high risk household member.

I would say no but only because my D's had sheltering letter in March and he he does not go out it would not be fair of me to bring someone into house who could potentially be harbouring the virus. I would happily pay you to stay away until your DH got negative test.

I was a cleaner. I never expected to be paid for cleaning if I did not do the work, but I did have decent clients who would pay me if they cancelled and also one client paid me holiday pay.

I think people are afraid and don't know what to do for the best.

I would let you clean but I would expect to be told about any situation that may arise including if you had cleaned for someone else with Covid.

I'd want to know. I'd cancel but I'd still pay you.

Hope DS and you stay well.

Agree best course of action is informing people and letting them undertake the risk assessment for their lives/home.

I cancelled our cleaner from coming as DC had to self isolate but still paid.