It just gets better ...
1pm (the time at which I told her to start work if she was going out this am) phone call from lost AP, she obviously has a local with her so after much repitition - me "give the phone to the person you are with" her "can you tell me you address, I am losted and this lady is helping me. You understand what I say." I eventually got to speak to the poor unfortunate that AP had asked way from. Ap has turned the wrong way having left the station (which is under 1 mile from here) and is 1.5 miles from here! Woman says she is coming this way and will point AP in right direction.
1.30pm phone call from AP. "I am lost come and get me I am outside XXXX" Me "no you are nearly home, croos the road to the pavement and follow it to XXXX lane" "No I have 3 bags and I'm lost, come and get me." Bearing in mind I have a sick child and work to do.
I went to get her, on way back I told her exactly how cross I was, that I wasn't a taxi service. Once home I told her to put her bags in her room and to come straight down to the kitchen where I gave her a bollocking chat about her role within the family and what my expectations were.
Within this I pointed out that she didn't thank DH for lift, me for dinner, that her table manners were shocking and she had to learn to eat properly. That apart from unloading the dishwasher she had done precisely nothing to help and as she was on a 2 week trial I expected her to be showing me how useful she was. Also that all questions she had asked so far were for her own benefit and not about the family or how she could help me. I told her I had never had to tell an AP off like this before and I was horrified by her atitude.
I told her she was now on a one week trial and next monday I would either give her 1 weeks notice or a further weeks trial at which point, if she had convinced me she was worth it I would issue a short contract.
I have seen her written refs and taken down details of contacts, issued her with a very detailed timetable of work, am altering MrsR's contract to show her and have basically put the fear of, well ykwim, God into her!
I said that next week at our meeting I want to be saying, "Excellent AP, you have really worked hard, shown how much help you are and the DC have really taken to you." Or she will be out!
She admitted she cannot go back to her country as her Mother has a new partner and her Father lives with a boy and she has no where to go. All the more reason to work hard then!
She is in the kitchen ironing, I will have to teach her how to iron shirts though.