to expect my cleaner not to throw out mine and DCs supper for this evening?

[Babbity]

Mumsnet lentil soup was cooling in a lidded pan in our (very cool) utility room when I left for work this morning. Came back this evening - no soup to be seen. Not in fridge/freezer/anywhere in kitchen. Pan cleaned and hanging up. Has she really thrown it out?? I am furious.

Janos - if it were your DH (or anyone else in your home) who chucked out the soup, would you be of the same view? Class isn't relevant here, it's about someone chucking out someone else's dinner.
Not everyone is made of money, food costs - in the current economic climate many families are trying to make food go as far as possible - regardless of their social class! Come to think of it - why is someone with a cleaner Middle Class... having 'staff' used to be something only Upper Class had, now days families from all walks of life have some form of home help.
The OP has learnt that food needs to be labelled to prevent someone throwing it out.

baabity I'm totally with you. Dumb thing to do, as it involved a sort of displaced initiative that could have more practically been deployed elsewhere, eg, doing a bit more actual cleaning. Why would anyone employed as a a cleaner think it was ok to take such an irreversible step regarding a food item that was (a)clearly homemade (= someone went to time and teouble to make it), (b)in a COOL place, and (c)nothing to do with the cleaning job !

talbit, sobanoodle exactly! I rather suspect I was (temporarily) furious rather than mildly disgruntled because it now means I have another thing to have to think about every Friday morning (putting post it notes on all my food). Plus I was hungry (= grouchy).

Janos middle class angst - a fair point, if the only threads on here were about world poverty or the economic crisis. But given there are millions starving in the third world, and thousands struggling in this country, isn't that all the more reason to get a bit cross with someone wasting perfectly good food?

stealthpolarbear I certainly never put any warm food in the fridge for that reason.

Nannynick I would have been pretty peed off if DH had done it too, but probably not so much as (a) he's not got a track record of doing daft things, and (b) I'm not paying him. I have indeed learned my lesson - out with the post it notes next week.

janos.

She probably thinks you are a bit of a minger leaving great pots of smelly old soup in your utility room. Probably thought she was going above and beyond the call of duty by dealing with it all.

Sounds like a great cleaner to me.

lol babbity
This attitude of "What a trivial thing to post a thread about" really irritates me. 70% of MN could be classed as trivial - it's what MN is partly for. If you don't like them, don't read them.

fleurlechaunte I'm sure she does think I am a minger. Curried lentil soup, imagine... If I wasn't a minger I don't suppose I'd need a cleaner.

She isn't a great cleaner, though, but at least she turns up, so YAY her.

Just to make it clear, my cleaner is not particularly bright, which is why I she is a cleaner. That does not imply that all cleaners are not bright. But some people, like my cleaner, do not have the intelligence to cope with a more demanding job that requires common sense, initiative, high level reasoning, prioritising etc etc. That is why she has a job paying £8/hour and other people have jobs paying £80/per hour.

That's life, it's not fair and it's not equal. We all have to accept it as it's never gonna change.

And my cleaner does not have her own cleaning business, she is just a youngish girl who is doing the best she can with the her particular skills. I respect her because even though she may not be hugely bright, she is honest, trustworthy and reliable.

If you are annoyed at my comment which was only about my particular cleaner perhaps you have an insecurity about yourself that you need to address?

Bloody hell. Its gonna kick off

runs for hills

nannynick - the only person in my house who chucks food out is me. Unless it's 4 year old DS, who puts his crusts in the bin

I do take the point about wasting food however. And if you've come in from work thinking 'oh yum, soup' and it isn't there then yes I'd probably be irritated too so fair play.

This attitude of "What a trivial thing to post a thread about" really irritates me.

What a trivial thing to be irritated by, honestly.

And I apologise for causing further annoyance by not formatting properly!

No, its not gonna kick off lol!!

Just the way you wrote your post, oneplusone, made it sound as if you meant every cleaner!! Thats all, plain and simple. I suppose i don't really like labelling.

No insecurities here, never been that sort of person.

lol very true
It's just that I enjoy MN's triviality - if we start having a gravity threshold for threads I think I may defect to Netmums

My cleaner once turned off my slow cooker. Was so annoying, instead of the nice homemade dinner I'd planned we ended up eating takeout, not to mention throwing away £8 worth of organic chicken.

Babbity - if I came home from work looking forward to home made lentil soup and then it wasn't there ... so I had to make something else for dinner when I smugly thought I'd already got it made ... I think I'd probably cry. I hate cooking so much.

So, no, YANBU.

YANBU as has been said many a time but now you know to label anything.

FWIW, the cleaner who 'does' our office wanted to throw away a polysterene box which had my breakfast in it which just happened to be on my desk . Had I not been there, it would have gone in the bin (never mind that the floors haven't been vaccumed in days). I guess the best way to look at it, is that she was using her inititave, as unwanted as that turned out to be .

mmm I'm going to have to make curried lentil soup at sme point soon

You are quite right StealthPolarBear!

I was just being a bit arsey.

Curried lentil soup is yum. One of my favourites but DS turns his nose up at it, the philistine.

Someones cleaner turned off the slow cooker Now THAT i would be seriously annoyed at

I love love love my slow cooker

YANBU. And don't think there was anything wrong with OP's posts. Some humans (cleaners or otherwise) have common sense, others don't. We all know it.
And now I have a craving for lentil soup.