to get pissed off with my cleaner for building towers?

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Yes - towers of books on my coffee table. I have 2 piles of books - you know the usual type of coffee table books.

She will polish it and then put the 2 piles into one big one. Then add newspapers and anything else she can lay her hands on.

I get home every night and put it back into 2 piles. She then changes it every day.

I measured it yesterday and 'the tower' was
20 inches high.

AIBU or do people have 'towers' on their coffee table?

Sounds like she hasn't enough work to do.

Every DAY ! and you are out of the house?

at the measuring - YABU just for that!

Yes a bit. have you told her you don't like it? wish i had a cleaner everyday

You actually measured?

OMFG

My cleaner piles stuff up, more so I can put it away in one go, than things that are always out.

Does your cleaner come every day?

Maybe she is playing book jenga?

I wish I hadn't read the post, the subject line brought up so many interesting possibilities in my imagination...

Tell her not to! I too am that you have someone who comes every day.

If you have 20 inches of coffee table books then you have too many coffee table books on the table imo

Put the books away and leave out a pack of cards.

Yes - she comes every day for 4 hours. She seems to like towers - she makes 'towers' of my shoes in our bedroom.

Could you leave out a selection of cups and saucers? And post the results? This could be interesting.

She is hoping that you will tidy them away.

Is she looking for stuff to do? Four hours a day?

What do you do to your house that requires 4 hours of cleaning a day?

I did ask if my shoes were pissing her off and she said no.

She can be disobedient though. I specifically asked her to not to wash a rug in dd's room - but she did.

She almost becomes possessed with getting things done.

How messy are you?

Four hours a day and she's not doing the tidying/putting away? What does she do?

My cleaner is here four hours a week, so I expect no tidying - I do that myself. But if she was here that often, she'd basically run the house, so should know where things live. Which isn't in towers, presumably.

You are going to get hammered for "disobedient"...

I agree that you need to start leaving out random things so that she can make them into towers.

Good god. One simply cannot get the staff these days.

Are you really messy? You must be a right slattern to create 4 hours worth of mess every day.

4 hours is too much.

I am a cleaner at a 4 bedroom house on a campsite. I clean the public loos and the house, it has 5 bathrooms and the occupants are slatterns. I work 2 & 1/2 hours a day, 4 days a week. That is plenty. I also have time to make and drink mucho coffee and chat to all.

She does everything.

Hoover. Polish. Washing and Ironing. Cooker inside and out/Hob. Tiles. Sinks/Mirrors/Showers/baths. Dishwasher. Paintings/pictures. Silver. Bannisters. Floors. Bins. Lampshades. Bed Linen. Towels. Windows. Doors. Skirtings. High dusting. Cupboards/drawers. Window seals.

I do all of the above too.

Does your entire house need to be cleaned every day?

Even my neat freak dp who can't bear to see a speck of dust doesn't spend 4 hours each day on cleaning the house.

Every day? My cleaner does my whole house in 2 hours a week, although not my cooker.

And I don't have any "silver". Or "linen".

I reckon your cleaner's lounging around eating your biscuits and trying on your clothes.

Are you a good cleaner though?

You see, that's not my gripe - she is very good. But I sometimes feel she wants to take over. She loves to tidy things away on my dressing table - and then I can't find them.

Once I was going out and had laid all my clothes out in the morning - along with shoes and jewellery. Got home - and they had all been put away.

ROFFLE @ "disobedient".

You are having us on, aren't you? I call joke thread.