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?

Is your house very large? Unless it is very large and/or old (so dusty etc), for 4 hours a day, I'd expect a housekeeper - so they'd keep an eye on food stocks & dinner plans, bills, washing, drycleaning, shoe cleaning, keeping the household diary, the lot. Basically, run the house. I didn't spend 4 hours a day on housekeeping when I was doing it all myself.

But we're moving away from the 'tower' issue now

1. You have too many coffee table books. No one needs that many.

1. I really want to know what the coffee table books are.

1. The reason she's playing book jenga is because she hasn't got anything else to do. Cut her hours, or do alternate days, or something.

I don't buy this one, I'm afraid. I suspect the OP is winding us up...

All cleaners do towers don't they?

Mine does, so I move the stuff before they arrive. Don't have coffee table/ books though. A pile on that would look strange.

Like I said. I bet she'd tried them on.

I agree tryharder, wasn't there a similar thread a little while ago where someone was all because their cleaner had made herself a cup of tea?

I see the OP has upped her cleaners hours - it was only 3hrs a week earlier this year

Although actually I'm not sure,

was 3hrs a week in Feb

24hrs a week in May and August

15hrs a week in Feb

It has to be a windup.

disobedient? shes not a dog!

She can be disobedient?

She is not a fucking dog

It was 3 hours a day in Feb! Make sure you read old posts properly!

This is not a joke thread I promise.

My coffee table books are:

The Art of Faberge
Helmand
Luxury Hotels
Icelanders
Fly Fishing
Under Sail
Birds
The Spa
Nureyev

An eclectic range of interests, I must say .

You sound like a twat

My mum cleans houses, the though of some snobby bitch calling her disobedient because she cleaned a rug she didn't need too is making me fucking incandescent.

errm that's what I said

3hrs in Feb

always - you said 3 hours a week in Feb.

sherby - you don't know me. I can assure you I am not a twat. And nor am I a snobby bitch.

Do you not think I might have been fucking raging when she cleaned the sodding rug?

OP - you really don't have enough to worry about do you ...

oh I do apologise I there was so many hours I wrote week instead of day .

You are not a snobby bitch? Well calling another human 'disobedient' would put you in both categories actually

Disobedient means not complying with instructions. That's what she did! I don't see how that makes me a snobby bitch.

Arf at your coffee table books. I bet you've got Marian keyes, Dan Browne and Sophie Kinsella hidden haven't you?

I have a massive bookcase in the kitchen full of the usual stuff. More to do with IRA/MI5/True Crime I'm afraid!

sherby, she's taking the mick

Yes it does mean that. But if my friend came to my house and did something I asked her not too I wouldn't use the word disobedient. I wouldn't use it because I don't think she is below me.

Disobedient when used about another person implies some snobbery on your part. Why do you think so many people commented on it?

So what other word would you suggest then?