Cleaner trying on employers makeup

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Would this be a sackable offense for most?
It's a new cleaner by the way. Self employed, so no agency.

Also it was a lipstick.
House owner had left the house but came back to retrieve forgotten item and caught cleaner in the act.

Ewww she'd bee outa the door like a shot !

Do you really need to ask op? Obviously she’d be sacked.

Hmm @Bluntness100 & @longandwide i did not think of that , you are right , how did the owner of the lipstick get back in the house without been heard ? it would only take a split second to fling the lipstick down and act like nothing happened

I’m a cleaner and I clean with music on. I often don’t hear clients come in or out of the house. Of course, I’m not trying on their make up so it doesn’t matter if they catch me unawares!

@AlCalavicci

Hmm *@Bluntness100 & @longandwide* i did not think of that , you are right , how did the owner of the lipstick get back in the house without been heard ? it would only take a split second to fling the lipstick down and act like nothing happened

Exactly you’d hear someone come in. And putting on a lipstick is seconds

So the odds of the op coming back just for her lipstick. The cleaner not hearing her, and the op walking in and she was putting it on at that exact same moment are so low as to not be believable.

The op did not come back for her lipstick!

@WINKINGatyourage

The op did not come back for her lipstick!

Ok, she came back to get something else.

Still screams "Didn't happen"

The OP doesn’t say that the lipstick was the forgotten item, just that the home owner came home to collect A forgotten item. And if the cleaner had found the lipstick in the hall and was at a mirror there trying it, the home owner could have caught her in the act when they opened the front door.

I could totally believe it happened. As a child I had a babysitter who was caught wearing my mums clothes and had even lent some of my Dads to her boyfriend for a job interview!

Disgusting. I wouldn't feel comfortable having a cleaner in the house who used my personal items like that. Especially during covid.

Jesus, do you even need to ask?

Even spraying perfume shows a massive lack of trustworthiness.

Yes, cold sores and covid aside, if prepared to cross this boundary, what other ones could they cross?

"Still screams "Didn't happen""

Then don't post on the thread?

Nothing more tedious than a smartarse trollhunter.

Hope the husband wasn't at home too.....

In normal times I’d be annoyed and ask for a replacement. At the moment, I would not hesitate to say they should not return.

Just occurred to me - maybe this is how cleaners (and the like) get lipstick on their teeth - they get caught in the act nicking other people's lippy and it makes them jump

I wouldn’t want the lipstick any more but I’d feel bad sacking them for it.

@longandwide

Just occurred to me - maybe this is how cleaners (and the like) get lipstick on their teeth - they get caught in the act nicking other people's lippy and it makes them jump

Is lipstick on the teeth a common cleaner problem where you are?

Absolutely sackable.

Lack of boundaries and hygiene.

Ugh. Completely inappropriate, very disgusting and definitely sackable

Some stuff is transmitted through saliva.

@longandwide

Bit of a coincidence wasn't it? Nip out, come back shortly after to get the exact item that the cleaner decided to use - and catch her in the act - even though her use of the lipstick likely only lasted 30 seconds and she would almost certainly have heard the OP re-entering the house and coming towards the room.

I'm calling a "Didn't happen."

But if it did, make sure you give Eric a sniff and a rinse under the hot tap just to be on the safe side.

You don’t understand probability do you?

Chance of me getting struck by lightning = extremely low. Wouldn’t scream “didn’t happen” at anyone claiming they were struck by lightning. Low probability events happen.

People are doing dodgy stuff and not getting caught every day. Sometimes by chance they’ll get caught.

Trying on a perfume I wouldn't mind really, but a lipstick - just gross!!

Yuk

Yet another reason Mumsnet has given me not to hire a cleaner

It's bad, but lipstick makes it double bad!

Anything else I’d be annoyed but a spritz of perfume I would overlook but lipstick on the lips no way! Even before Covid!