AIBU to cancel my cleaner

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Because of coronavirus. She cleans weekly for us.
If she is sick we will be too.
I feel bad doing it to her and we need cleaners services badly.
And yet, if she is ill we will be too.

@Porcupineintherough This is a zombie thread from March. Although interesting to see what people’s views were then

So interesting! I thought all the replies were bonkers, but it’s because this was from the beginning of the pandemic. I doubt people would say the same things now!

Wow - this didn't age well

The early replies to this thread just shows how easy it is to pour scorn on other people when you don't have the full facts or benefit of hindsight! Hopefully a lesson learned for some.

We told our cleaner to stop coming during lockdown but paid her the entire time. When she came back she kept not turning up at the very last minute with ridiculous excuses and then asking to still be paid...Sometimes you give someone an inch and they take a mile. So we let her go and I'm now glad we don't have a cleaner coming into our house and potentially spreading the virus on every single surface in our house. Our local rates are through the roof at the moment.

I don't understand why this is so ridiculous? I cancelled ours because I thought if my own family can't come in my house why would I have the cleaner who's been in and out of god knows how many houses. There's no logic in it, so it's either let my family in too or no one, and I went for no one.

@dontmesswiththeGC this thread is from early March before any lockdowns happened

...and v interesting to see how quickly things changed!

I'm a cleaner in tier three.Self employed and a single mother. I also nanny part time.
I have decided to cancel all jobs while my secondary school DC are off an extra week.
All my clients are ok with this.
If things are so bad that my DC have to be off school an extra week( probably more) then I'm sorry but I am not going to go around to many different homes where I dont know where anyone has been.
I will go back when secondry schools go back.
If I was to catch this ( I'm 50) and get long covid I wont have anyone to care for my dc full time so I'm doing this to protect me and also my clients.
There is no right or wrong in this as we all have different views and circumstances.

Oh,old post!

I still have my cleaner. They are so strict with their ppe etc and they've been through such a hard time recently. They are fab and the company is little over a year. Old. They were buggered in the first kickdown, got back on their feet and there was a firebreak in Wales, and then loads of cancellations for isolating etc. I think you either pay them or have them

Wow, reading this zombie thread now is fascinating! It aged so badly, and the comment on the first page - 'Let's just cancel life in general. You know 'just incase'', erm, well... It's like watching a film where you know what's going to happen but all the characters think they're going for a nice camping trip in a definitely not haunted wood...

Mumsnet should not have shared this in their 2020 roundup email. It was unkind and dated, considering this was very early on when nobody knew and were floundering in a mess of bonafide worry and disinformation.

Gosh, some of the posters were so scathing in their responses. Very interesting to see how so many people turned on the OP, and her prediction ended up being correct. Furthermore, I think it was a very reasonable question, when nobody knew what was happening nor what the 'rules' were. I am not going to quote some of the responses as that wouldn't be very kind, but a lot of them were very mean and many of the sarcastic, hyperbolic comments that were intended to mock the OP, actually ended up being the truth. Very interesting to look back on!

Given what happened this year I think everyone who commented saying nasty things to this person who was clearly concerned at this point needs to re-examine their attitudes! People with the attitude that life must go on and you can't avoid everyone are the reason that this virus is still killing hundreds a day in the uk and hundreds of thousands world wide. Just stay home (if you can), get vaccinated (when you can) and give people the space and respect they deserve! I would 100% without any doubt cancelled a cleaner if I had one! If the virus had been something like small pox where the outward signs of illness are apparent- people would all be so much more careful and this post would read very differently!!!!!!

I had to let my cleaner go at the start of the first lockdown, as I am ECV and was advised to shield, which we did as a family. I have been advised to shield again, so we really can’t have a cleaner.

I am a cleaner, from the outset a couple of my clients said not to come but they continued to pay me. As things got slightly better re infection rates , during the Summer I returned but only to empty houses, the owners would make sure we didn't clash. I think I was the very first person to wear a mask in my town, and was laughed at, in early March last year. But was very grateful that I was able to still work very safely, houses were always well ventilated and thoroughly disinfected by the time the owners returned. Later on, I could have free lateral flow tests which I do so as to ease everyone's minds. Condsideration, social distancing, keeping hands away from face and careful precautions through this, and ofcourse, the key ingredient, open the doors and windows for air flow...