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?

every day for 4 hours?, seriously??, you lot must be really filthy to need that much cleaning in your house

It's only 5 days a week - not weekends. I have to do a lot of sodding dinner parties.

I would say

'on occasion she doesn't listen to what she has been asked to do'

or

'she is so bored with finding work to do that she has taken to washing rugs that don't need washing and makes towers out of books'

I just spat with laughter - can your cleaner come and clean my laptop now please as it has saliva on it? Oh I do hope she doesn't disobey me.

Am I a good cleaner?

Durrrr. Yes.

OK then - I apologise for my use of the word 'disobedient'.

This rug was a present from dd's godmother. It was lovely. I saw her scoop it up - and said 'Oh just leave that, I'll see to it'

She said 'OK' and put it back. Only to come back home and find it on the Washing Line.

Cheaky mare.

Well if I had to clean a perfectly clean house for 4 fricking hours a day I'd probably resort to weird, obsessive compulsive behaviour too.

OF COURSE she's building towers. She's probably digging tunnels and shaking earth down her trousers. Set the woman free for God's sake!

What was wrong with her cleaning the rug anyway? just curious.

Just spat my tea out theyoungvisiter !

only 5 days a week - so that's 20hrs a week then

The rug was expensive, hand made and silk. Not the sort of thing you shove in the washing machine on a boil wash.

I think that should be quote of the week TYV.

Towers are the least of your issues then aren't they?

You have a silk rug? This is getting better by the minute.

lighten up mumsnetters
you are all jealous
hf7656545343248 i would ask cleaner not to go it...i have only had a cleaner once for a few weeks she always put 'angled' things back 'straight' drove me nuts

How did it come out?

so to fill her time she could have done it whatever way you would have liked it done. she may have thought that you didnt want her to take the time and was doing you a favour.

Anybody knows that coffe table books should never be piled more than 3 high!

Except your cleaner, obviously.

But the towers wind me right up!

She is lovely and I am very grateful for all she does.

Everytime I try and have a word (once a week if I am at home) she will have had another family crisis and I don't have it in me to criticise her.

Your house requires 20 hours of cleaning a week? You either live in an enormous mansion or you are a complete slattern and incapable of tidying up anything after yourself! I'm not surprised the "disobedient" cleaner has taken to building towers - unless of course, she is five which is a good age for both tower-building and disobedience ....

Does she cook too?

How much do you pay her PH?

just leave her a short note saying "could you leave the books in two piles as they're apt to topple if piled up too high".

Surely that's not going to tip her over into family crisis mode?

Seriously though - it sounds like she has too little to do and is trying to show you that she IS tidying as much as she can, by moving things around.

She does cook if I want her to. And pick up dry cleaning etc.

My house is quite large. And dh's work stuff needs fine tuning.