Dirty sink.

[Flowersforyourchocolateprettyplease]

If you're a cleaner or housekeeper, how do you feel about this:

Stay at home mum of two, kids at school all day. Very capable, no medical issues.

Leaves milk out opened, dishes on the side of the sink, teabags in the sink.

Dirty kitchen towel on the floor.
Obviously have to pick the towel up to clean the floor but clearing the rest seems to be enabling her to do more mess.
Easy option is to get another job of course, which I'm looking into, but how to deal with this day to day.
First thing when coming into work is being confronted by this scene everyday.
YABU- just clear up.
YANBU- An adult should be able to do bare minimum and put stuff back/bin.

Oh man, or, she might have just employed a housekeeper to do things she can’t be arsed to do, putting milk away and chucking teabags in the bin included.

Sounds a bit lazy and grim to me. Disrespectful too: I always tidy up for my cleaners before they arrive so a) they can focus on the job and b) I don’t expect them to clear up my mess.

I pay someone to clean my car, inside and out, because I can’t be arsed to do it myself. So I guess that’s what this woman is doing with her house.

I think you're in the wrong job if you are assessing her so negatively, it's not your job to understand why she has hired you, it's your job to clean. If you have an agreement that says the areas need to be clear of clutter so you can do the job than fair enough, bring it up.

This is what I mean. I've done it previously thinking oh, she forgot/was in a rush/overlooked etc.

I know she can do it, but chooses not to.
Sound trial, but genuinely one of the reasons I don't like coming in. It grates more than a bad loo as with that, I can blame the kids.
She's the only one drinking the tea.

I enjoy my job as a whole, other than the teabags.
Have cleaned for others before with no issues.
Had an evening cleaning job through university and still friends with the woman.

Might be a straw that broke the camel's back.

She'd be sat in the next room watching Eastenders, so it's not that she's too busy at all. She's free till the kids are back.

It doesn’t matter whether she is or isn’t busy. It’s irrelevant. I’m currently sitting in a cafe with a coffee and a slice of carrot cake while someone cleans my car 🤷🏻‍♀️. All that matters is what is or isn’t in your job description.

She wanted help, not someone to do everything.
Early days, she'd do all this herself but has let go more and more.
I wonder if I enabled it initially.

I guess it's like having a gardener whom you expect to pick up dog mess vs those that don't.

What's the problem ?
You're employed as a cleaner (I know it's beneath you), so do your job or find a more suitable career.

If you're a weekly/bi-weekly cleaner, yanbu. A daily housekeeper, then yabu.

That was fpr someone who said she might have had a hectic morning.
I've had my car cleaned too so get that.

She could be a lawyer out all day and I'd still feel it's basic manners.

Yeah... maybe this career isn't for you.

I've done it on and off for ages, never any issues.

I am absolutely leaving this one.

I clear and tidy the surfaces in any room I ask my clraner to clean. It would feel rude to leave them washing up or tidying. But some people think the job includes sorting out mess.

Are you a cleaner or a housekeeper? It makes a difference

I personally do a full top to bottom house clean before my cleaners come. Wouldn’t want them to have to do what I am paying them for or post judgey comments on the internet about my teabags.

People like me just don’t care enough about living in a messy environment. We function differently to you.

It’s a shame you have such rigid ideas about what makes a decent person but that’s your problem, not mine.

If you’re a housekeeper then you should be doing it all it’s what you’re paid for surely?

If however you are just a cleaner then she should tidy up and leave the surfaces and floors clutter free so you can clean.

then leave it. She wants someone to do stuff you don't want to do, basic mismatch!

You do sound judgemental. Most cleaners take pride in helping their clients. From your posts it doesn’t sound like the right job for you. I always thought it strange when I heard of cleaning for the cleaner to come. In reality if it’s clean enough for a cleaner to clean all surfaces , hoover and dust it’s not really much of a step for the client to take this over themselves. Are you engaged to clean daily? Maybe you need to revisit the terms of the clean of there is a mismatch between duties.

But goes your cleaner come daily?

I think there's a I'd fifference between employing a cleaner once a week for a full house clean & employing someone daily as a house keeper/home help.

the OP HAS NO WAY of knowing if the woman is mentally or physically unwell. She's been employed daily to HELP, not judge.

I am leaving.
She wasn't like this before though.

I'm presuming you're paid an hourly rate so what does it matter if your tidying or cleaning, I would only be concerned if I was being called out for rooms not being cleaned / hoovered (because I spent 30 minutes clearing up your shitty mess and stacking the dishwasher that's why)
But if it's really irritating you I guess your making the right decision to move on.

It's not about cleaning everything, I said what grates, tje teabags as the bin is right there.

So only unwell people leave tebags in the sink for the cleaner?

She isn't unwell.