Cleaner trying on employers makeup

[seaclaidte]

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.

@LaurieFairyCake

Yuk

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

But if you don't see it, it's like it never happened.

Bit like you wouldn't know there is(n't) a killer virus on the loose unless you watch the news

@Newfor2021

Yes, my ex Nanny started wearing my clothes..... including my knickers!!! (not envy!)

Including your KNICKERS?!?!

Absolutely not on and definitely a sackable offence.
Completely disrespectful and unhygienic!
I'm a cleaner btw.

You need to be able to trust someone who is in your house when you're not there. Definitely sackable IMO.

Thin end of the wedge to me,
today - lipstick,

tomorrow - ooh the bed's nice and bouncy,
then soon it will be - just trying your husband for size. (seems OK)

I wonder if op is the cleaner!

@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

cleaners (and the like) ?? I'm not sure if you're joking.

Thats disgusting. I wouldnt share a lipstick with a random woman outside Sainsburys so why is an employee any different? And the fact it wasnt mutually agreed/offered is just . not envy.

I'd give her the lipstick in lieu of wages for the last week - preferably stuffed up her arse.

@FamBae

I wonder if op is the cleaner!

Either way, I want to hear the story about her using the lipstick, trying on the underwear and seducing her employer's husband.

I don't care if the story is made up. I want to hear it.

The idea has some appeal - staid suburban middle class house but with a naughty smutty secret that goes on once a week, regular as clockwork and while the "lady of the house" is out at her tennis lesson.

The story is told so we feel some sympathy for the husband - he isn't seeking someone different as such as he loves and fancies his wife - that's why the cleaner wears her things - he just wants to experience a more available/naughtier side of his wife - rather than the more staid/stuck up one that he has.

Ok, so the wife starts to suspect something is going on. How does the story play out from here?

[No - she doesn't "LTB" - this is a fun fictional fantasy book - bit like the opening post!]

Anyone else baffled by those who think it’s fine for cleaners to have a spritz of your perfume?!! That stuff is EXPENSIVE! I don’t want anyone all up in my cosmetics, thanks. Not cool.

She needs to be rid of.
DCI Barnaby would have found her impaled on some kind of threshing machine ( I'm currently watching too many re-runs of Midsomer Murders !) or shot with a 1942 pistol owned by the rector's wife!
You need to follow her through the woods and scare her with a scythe.
Failing that... sack her.

Eeeeeeewwwww!!!!!

And in the middle of a pandemic?!

I'd fuck her right off, sloppy cow!!

Op has to be the cleaner!

So many posts recently where people don't come back

🤢🤢disgusting

Lipstick, yes of course, totally unhygienic and just bloody cheeky!!

Oh come on like someone having a spray of your perfume is a big deal

I once employed a cleaner through an agency and came home when she was part way through. I then noticed her slippers were the same as mine - you guessed it, she was wearing my slippers! I'm a bit of a wimp and didn't sack her until a few weeks later when she kept asking to borrow my stuff and asking how much everything cost. She was lovely but a bloody nightmare

Oh come on like someone having a spray of your perfume is a big deal hmm

It’s your personal stuff. If a cleaner starts ‘having a spray’ of whatever they fancy in your house, they’re not going to suddenly start respecting your home or property.

I'd sack. And dock the price of the lipstick from her pay.

It wasnt my cleaner. It was someone elses.
And they didnt come back to retreive the lipstick, just something else from their bedroom, and saw they cleaner sampling said lipstick on her lips.

And of course you can come home without being heard. Not everyone gallops home on a horse.
A pair of flat shoes on most surfaces make zero noise.

The cleaner was obviously too engrossed in what she was doing.

The reason that I am asking is that the homeowner gave the cleaner a second chance. I would not have been so forgiving.

@MoreMorelos

Op has to be the cleaner!

So many posts recently where people don't come back

I would make a brilliant cleaner. I love a good sort out.

But no I am not the cleaner.

Well clearly I'm massively in the minority here but I'm not going to sack a self employed or minimum wage worker in the middle of a pandemic because they put a foot wrong and tried on my lipstick

It’s a bit gross, I think I’d probably ask my cleaner not to come back after that.

Although when I was a housekeeper in a hotel I used to try on the guests perfumes

Depends on the lipstick