Caught Cleaner clipping her Nails in our Bathroom..

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…with my nail clipper.

AIBU to fire her over this?

(Also - have never done an AIBU before and can’t figure out how to do the poll).

I don't go to nail salons, but I'm assuming scissors/clippers and whatever other tools would be cleaned between clients? Interested to hear from people who use salons.

On that note apparently cuticles shouldn't be pushed back/clipped as they are there to provide a "seal" between nail and surrounding skin. (It seems a good cleaner will also be slightly obsessive about their hands - DH does have beautiful hands to be fair ) I have a tendency to nibble my cuticles

I really couldn't care less. Not like she used your tooth brush. We have lots of visitors come and stay and people have often asked to borrow my nail clippers. No problem! And I've borrowed nail clippers at other people's houses.
I feel uncomfortable when my nails get too long. It's likely she was cleaning, felt like her nails were getting in the way and quickly cut them. Maybe she's lost her own or something.
If she's a lovely person who's helped you out with emergency babysitting, I can't believe you'd eve consider sacking her over something so inconsequential.

Fungal infections are the most likely risk, but also warts etc. Let's face it, a lot of people don't wash their hands well enough and harbour dirt and germs under nails, and children often bite their nails!

Your cleaner is probably the person in your household with the cleanest hands and nails, seeing as she works with water and cleaning products.

If you think she's so manky as not to be allowed use a nail clippers I'm confused why you'd ask her to look after your children occasionally.

All the nail clippers I've ever come across have been made from metal. If people are so paranoid about the very unlikely possibility of the cleaner passing on an infection from her very clean hands, surely you can just give the nail clippers a squirt of anti bacterial cleaner and a wash?

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<Delete> just realized I wasn't replying to OP!

Exactly what I was going to say.

Sorry, you've lost me here. Are nail clippers considered a particularly intimate item? Any nail clippers in my bathroom are simple 'the nail clippers', for general use.

I had an agency send a cleaner who brazenly took a shower in my en-suite bathroom and was doing her make up in my mirror when I arrived home. She just continued as I stood there. I didn’t know what to say. I should I told her to get out. She left once she had finished and I called the agency and said I wouldn’t have her back for that reason. Nowadays I would be more assertive. I was young then.

I couldn't cope with this! If she had asked or had been open about it and not tried to hide it so you could have said something that would have been different but tbh I'd be grossed out if a family member decided to save clipping their nails for a visit to my home.. and didn't say anything... let alone someone who should have boundaries in your personal space.

Will you continue to have any sort of relationship with her even if she doesn't clean for you anymore? If so I'd be tempted to let her go and just say you're going to try keep on top of it yourself or something so you don't have to bring it up. That way no hard feelings and it's not like she was sacked. It sounds like you have genuine affection for her but you would just be saying you don't require cleaning services.

Gross. this is someone you employ.
I will just sit in my workplace washroom and do the same.
Words fail me

My thoughts too!

Gift her some so she knows you know and she gets the message not to use yours :-)

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Of all the things you fire someone for haha
Really not that deep

I think the OP was, in fact, actually fishing to see if this brazen infraction can be used as a reason for the cleaners dismissal, given the update about her plan to get rid of her anyway! Don't you just love a drip feed?!
I'm actually surprised that OP didn't don two pairs of Marigolds and root through the bins, to locate the offending clippings, then stick them to a piece of card to present to the cleaner, along with her P45! But she's still ok as an emergency babysitter though eh?!
Some people... 🙄

Absolutely. Sounds really petty to me.

If she definitely was clipping nails I would be a bit annoyed as you go to work to work and this is just odd. I wouldn’t do personal things like that in my office.

She's not some kind of subhuman. OP, you're better than this.

I remember the first time I used DHs razor ... He freaked out about germs and blood and s variety of other things. Then he remembered he probably did other things where he came into contact with those anyway 😂

Seriously though. He had a point. Sharing clippers isn't safe or hygienic. If you go to a salon they're disinfected and sterilised between clients due to the risk of infection.

Your cleaner shouldn't be using your nail clippers especially when she should have been working. It's probably worth a chat rather than sacking her though.

If the cashier at the supermarket stopped to clip their nails people in the queue would complain. It’s the same with the cleaner as they should be doing their job not cutting their nails.

I caught our two cleaners going through my wardrobe and smoking upstairs!

Oh come on. Trying on your employer's clothes is part of the job. And smoking? It all depends. Mostly on whether they passed you the blunt.

Yes they passed me the cigs1

Presumably all these people complaining that the cleaner shouldn't stop for a couple of minutes to clip her nails have never posted on Mumsnet during their working day? Or made a personal phone call? 😆😆😆

How much paid time do you give your cleaner to carry out their nail care?