to get pissed off with my cleaner for building towers?

[hf128219]

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?

Apologies for numerous typos. Typing on iPhone next to cot again!

I thought coffe table books were so you had something to talk about with guests if the conversatin ran out....or for them to browse if you took ages making the coffee/tea because your cleaner was off sick

This my fave thread of the week so I am bookmarking it now.

Told DH who expressed astonishment (at cleaner not me likign thread )

Yeah, I'm definitely enjoying this thread...most entertaining!

Wow - 4 hours a day is a lot, even for all the jobs you expect. Perhaps she isn't busy enough so is getting too worried about the details. My cleaner (3 hrs once a week)always leaves the pictures wonky I guess to prove she's dusted them. Either that or she can't see a straight line. It doesn't take long to put them right though and it's become a funny quirk. I agree -embrase the towers and see what she can do with your junk mail?

Perhaps she is hinting. This is what she wants.

Could you send her round to our house please. She could happily build the Petronas Towers with all the junk lying around.

Ill send the cat around

She sounds more like a housekeeper. Housekeeping duties can easily take up four hours a day.

Or you have some kind of obsessional disorder about cleanliness and tidiness. In which case I can understand your distress about the 'towers'.

Why on earth do you have so many books on your coffee table? It must look so cluttered.

As this is so obviously a wind-up, am not sure I should be wasting the time in rising to the bait.

But, to re-wind, I would say that the 'instruction' she "disobeyed" wasn't terribly clear. You said "oh, just leave that, I'll see to it," which implied that it still needed to be done. She was probably just trying to be helpful. You should have said something like, "don't put that in the machine. It's silk. I need to get it sorted professionally."

And the term 'disobedient' implies a master/servant or parent/child relationship. Inappropriate these days.

And WHAT'S with all the measuring of stuff in your house?

I disagree that 4 hours a day is too much. A large house that entertains frequently will DEFINITELY need at least that amount of cleaning. I only have a moderate 4 bed and I need 12 hours just to keep the amount of work I have to do at a sane level.

Breaking it down:
Detailed dusting whole house 2x week
Hoovering principal areas every day
Cleaning of bathrooms 2 times a week
Cleaning of floors every day
Cleaning of fridge/cabinets/bins 1 time a week
Laundry (!)
Changing of linens/laundering/ironing - 1 whole day!
Clean kitchen - daily
Make beds/tidy - daily

That is quite a bit of work! I only have a modest house and need someone 12 hours a week, so I can imagine a large house.

I do doubt the 30 inch high pile of papers, but would believe 30 cm high.

Sorry I repeated info in the above post - forgot to edit!

Jeez....you have way too much money to waste on paying someone to spend 4 hours A DAY cleaning up your shit.

Ridiculous.

1 whole day (i.e, 4 hours) to do the changing, laundering and ironing of, lets assume, 4 beds.

Why do houses need dusting twice a week?
How dirty are you??

Coffee table books, ewwww.

My mother has a 'maid' 6 days a week, 7.5 hours a day.

she does live in China though!

I am very tidy. Dust happens, and we have dark furniture so it really shows (particularly in the bedroom).

Wow, this thread is really an eye opener into how the other half live.
I wish I had time to clean this much

If you slough a lot of skin, you will have a large amount of dust. Nightmare.

Having read hf12...'s other post I'm pretty sure this isnt' a wind up. She has stated before that she has 20 hours of help per week, paid for by the...MOD?......Who does pay for things for people in the forces....the tax payer?

er yes
and their kids private education when the parents concerend often live about a mile down the road.

and that IS a fact

Now don't make assumptions.