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To think that if you have time to be on MN moaning about your

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Amethyst8 · 26/01/2008 10:24

Cleaner then you probably have time to be doing your cleaning yourself. Find myself a bit bewildered by the complaints about cleaners on here. Not really a problem in the the true sense of the word IMO. Is your purse also too small for your £50s and are your diamond shoes too tight? (thank you Chandler! )

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KrippledKerryMum · 26/01/2008 15:13

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Desiderata · 26/01/2008 15:18

Kerry, Carracus sounds good to me!

Rhubarb · 26/01/2008 15:23

I had an argument with LGJ once about her cleaner.

Desiderata · 26/01/2008 15:25

Do tell, Rhub.

policywonk · 26/01/2008 15:33

There was an article in the Guardian recently about the fraught relationships between women and their cleaners, and one cleaner described how the last straw for her was being presented with a bag of her employer's knickers to hand-wash! Something very unpleasant going on in that scenario...

Desiderata · 26/01/2008 15:37

Ewww, indeed. There's something very nasty in that particular wood shed.

I'd have blown my nose in them all and sent them back with a fresh turd for good measure.

MumtoCharlotteMay · 26/01/2008 15:43

'I'd have blown my nose in them all and sent them back with a fresh turd for good measure.' PMSL!!!

I wish I could afford a cleaner!

ZippiBabes · 26/01/2008 15:44

i dont think an anonymous grip eon mn abotu cleaners is going to go to court ...people moan about their employers and fellow workers and employees in all businesses on here dont think cleaners are espoecially singled out

annies and au paris get it too lol

and pils

and most other people tbh

policywonk · 26/01/2008 15:44

LOL. I don't doubt it.

Desiderata · 26/01/2008 15:46

You can have me if you want, CharlotteMay. Not unsurprisingly, I'm quite cheap

MumtoCharlotteMay · 26/01/2008 15:47
mrsruffallo · 26/01/2008 15:48

I think the tone on cleaning threads cn be a little grating.

CorduroyAngel · 26/01/2008 16:00

Is there space on here for cleaners to moan about the way they are treated by employers???

hatrick · 26/01/2008 16:04

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CaraLondon · 26/01/2008 16:04

Huzzah for cleaners! I love mine (£8ph, and I had to raise her wages for her as she was too shy to ask for more, silly woman).

It buys me my weekend time with dd and dh. My cleaner is part of my family, adores dd (six months) and is a sweetheart all round.

It is just plain weird being in a culture where it it is looked down on to provide someone with employment that they want when you can afford it.

I started out three years ago with 2 hrs a week just for ironing, and added more hours for other jobs as I could afford more. I do her tax returns and have helped her find more work or a new flat as and when she has needed it. I respect her for working rather than relying on the dole.

Desiderata · 26/01/2008 16:04

Oooh, yes! Let's have a cleaners thread

CorduroyAngel · 26/01/2008 16:08

I worked at a local restaurant for a 'friend'. Not good. Didn't even get my terms and conditions, treated appallingly. Am now self employed cleaner and loving it!!

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Amethyst8 · 26/01/2008 17:23

EXACTLY.......Corduroy Angel. I was just walking back from the shops with DD thinking about this thread and I was thinking that I am sure it is probably in the main as difficult to be cleaned up after as it is to be doing the cleaning. However I dont see any cleaners on here slagging off their employers.

No Zippibabes an anonymous gripe or many on Mumsnet probably wouldnt make it to court but it doesnt make it right. I know everyone gets moaned about on here but I just detect a certain something in the way that some (not all) of the employers on MN talk about their cleaners.

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MoreSpamThanGlam · 26/01/2008 17:32

What a bout the cleaners that have time to come on here and moan about their employers instead of getting another job?

Sheesh!

I dont have a pot to piss in but when I win tonights lottery I will have a cleaner morning noon and night, my house will be spotless and I will be on here maoning about something else - like it or not.

I cant stand all those "what? you dont make a chicken last 12 meals? what? you dont grow your own aubergine? what? you have time to watch phil n fern whilst you have a toddler?" brigade. Mind your own.

Desiderata · 26/01/2008 19:24

Ah, we'd have the scour the archives, Spam (if you'll pardon the cleaning allusion), but I don't recall a thread where cleaners moaned about their employers.

Yet

MarsLady · 26/01/2008 19:32

I don't know whether or not to laugh. Of course you're being unreasonable. People moan about all sorts. Then, hopefully, they take some advice and sort it out. It doesn't just have to be about the cleaner. I mean we all have someone or something that we can moan about.

Much better out than in!

niceglasses · 26/01/2008 19:37

And what about mothers who come on here moaning about their kids instead of getting on their knees and being a tiger and just, just just JUST GETTING ON WITH IT!

Get real.

Desiderata · 26/01/2008 19:56

I don't think there's any need for the 'get real' comment, niceglasses.

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Amethyst8 · 26/01/2008 20:15

Is parenting your children - unbelievably stressful at times and also unbelievably joyful and probably the hardest but most worthwhile thing you will ever do, in fact on the same stress level as employing a cleaner to do your housework? How so niceglasses?

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Janni · 26/01/2008 20:28

I am nice and slim because I do all my own housework and look after three children.

I'm bloody knackered and fairly miserable though