Aibu to think this isn’t okay - cleaner nespresso

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We have a cleaner who comes in on a daily basis and obviously we have tea and instant coffee, which we keep in our home and provide for her to drink. However I noticed we are going through nespresso capsules quickly and then I realized she has nespresso(s) daily when she works. My husband does drink coffee and I’m the only one that drinks it and as a treat, even it home.

Aibu to address this with cleaner?

I tried to hide a sleeve with some capsules in, she found it and had a couple while emptying the rest into the nespresso jar.

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How do you get £5 a week when you can get sleeves for £3.60?

I see you've already spoken to her but FFS, you could easily buy the cheaper pods in the grocery, they taste just as good.

We have one life here, I don't see how you'd leave it more accomplished for having begrudged a woman a decent coffee instant is shit

Satisfy my curiosity. What is a sleeve in this context?

A sleeve is a long narrow box containing ten one-cup capsules

@Beveren

Satisfy my curiosity. What is a sleeve in this context?

It's 100% a fancy way of Nespresso branding their box to make people value it a a 'treat'.

I think this would annoy me, but I would never say anything!

Having said that, if I did have a coffee machine it would be for a Saturday morning treat, not a fancy coffee every day. And I'm not the type to have even a monthly cleaner, nevermind a daily one.

But I also get annoyed when people use too much kitchen roll, which I can comfortably afford. I think I'm just particularly anal.

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@Hollywolly1

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Having said that, if I did have a coffee machine it would be for a Saturday morning treat, not a fancy coffee every day.
Possibly I’m too fabulous for my own good, but if I had a coffee machine I’d have fancy coffee every day! Same with wearing the good perfume or the posh lipstick, or using the nice china (this sounds as though I own such things, which I do not): what’s the point of “saving for best”? I don’t want to drink misery coffee knowing there’s nice coffee in the house.

I couldn't get worked up about the extra £ personally, but I wouldn't be happy employing someone who stopped for a coffee twice a day (have I read that right?) in my home. I'd want them to do their work promptly, then leave.

I still can't believe you're well off enough to afford a daily cleaner but grudge her a coffee pod a day, crazy.

I bought my treasured lovely cleaner her preferred brand of decaffeinated capsules. I valued her efficiency very highly, and I hope she'll come back from travelling.

@NippyWoowoo

How do you get £5 a week when you can get sleeves for £3.60?

I see you've already spoken to her but FFS, you could easily buy the cheaper pods in the grocery, they taste just as good.

We have one life here, I don't see how you'd leave it more accomplished for having begrudged a woman a decent coffee instant is shit

This!

Also £5 a week... but you say you enjoy a nespresso coffee once a week? So one pod is £5?

Make it make sense.

@stuntbubbles

Having said that, if I did have a coffee machine it would be for a Saturday morning treat, not a fancy coffee every day. Possibly I’m too fabulous for my own good, but if I had a coffee machine I’d have fancy coffee every day! Same with wearing the good perfume or the posh lipstick, or using the nice china (this sounds as though I own such things, which I do not): what’s the point of “saving for best”? I don’t want to drink misery coffee knowing there’s nice coffee in the house.

My problem is I save for best but best never comes, so I'm left with clothes out of fashion, perfumes that have lost their smell and food that's gone mouldy. I never learn.

the cost depends on whether its original line (which you can get dupes of in the supermarkets) or Vertuo capsules which are only from Nespresso and works out 50-70p ish per capsule... a sleeve is 10 capsules

I'm surprised anyone drinks so little to be honest - but then I'm a caffeine addict and get through 4-6 a day and I have 2 machines

@Myusernameisunique

Omg the people I work for on a daily basis in a similar capacity actually buy in the tea and coffee I like to drink. They also offer me food, treats etc if they've got something in for themselves. You sound absolutely awful. Your poor cleaner. I love that in so valued by then and would honestly do anything for them to help out. Btw I also have a nespresso machine at home and wouldn't dream of grudging anyone a coffee from it!

As they should. My cleaner is Portuguese and I often make her Portuguese tarts, to go with her whisky and ciggie break.

I've just read the OP's update - she set out the cheapo coffee and told the cleaner to use that - how embarrassing.

@Elleinad0 the cleaner was having one a day so costing a fiver a week. The OP has one a week so a fiver every month or so. HTH.

[quote girlmom21]@Elleinad0 the cleaner was having one a day so costing a fiver a week. The OP has one a week so a fiver every month or so. HTH. [/quote]
It still doesn't really make sense. Does the cleaner ever get a day off? Is she working 10-day weeks? Are the pods a pound each?

So many questions!!

Like, why are Mumnetters just so bad at maths? We need to start teaching this stuff at school! Kids need to learn how to calculate how much coffee costs!

If the op has posted a real question, and I have my doubts, a good, reliable cleaner is like gold dust and deserves to be spoiled. A pod of coffee is nothing in the scheme of things.

I gave the Sky man who fixed my aerial a Nespresso coffee the other day, don't know him from Adam. Why would you begrudge it for someone who is in your house everyday?

[quote girlmom21]@Elleinad0 the cleaner was having one a day so costing a fiver a week. The OP has one a week so a fiver every month or so. HTH. [/quote]
How does it cost a fiver a week given that capsules are at most around 35p each?

I don't know Ethel, I don't buy the capsules. But that's what OP says they cost so that's what they cost.

How does it cost a fiver a week given that capsules are at most around 35p each?

They’re over 50p each if you have the vertuo style @EthelTheAardvark.

You can’t get the cheap (and not so nice TBH) knock offs for the vertuo machines. Anybody in my home is welcome to a coffee from my machine but they can have instant IF they’d prefer…..

Proof