If you are Social Distancing, would you stop your cleaner coming who isn't?

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I'm commented on social media with my cleaner who I really get on well with. She works for a small company ran by someone she knows well. The boss and colleagues get together for drinks and post it as a "work meeting" with sarcastic emojis. I've noticed other women joining them who don't work with them. Its blatant disregard for the rules and not even hiding the fact.

Usually we are home when she comes but move around her with windows open. Even if we go out, her being in our home whilst infectious would pose some risk. But am I being overly cautious?

I could cancel for a while without being specific why. There's little point telling the boss why as they'll probably keep doing it but not on social media.

Yes why would you employ someone with so little regard for the lives of vulnerable people.

Cleaning company boss is both arrogant and stupid. I wonder if your own particular cleaner has ever considered going self employed... Just a thought?!

The boss isn't always part of the gatherings. Tonight there are six of them with no boss and I know that at least one of them definitely isn't a part of the company and she is also in other people's photos (not from this group) too, so she's mixing all over the place as well as with this group.

If I didn't have the social media connections I wouldn't know, is ignorance bliss!?! I do feel clients should cancel due to this but feel I may be just getting on my high horse!?!

Just to be clear, is your own particular cleaner actually taking part in these so called 'work meetings' that are being posted on social media, or is she just being tagged in so she can see the pictures of her colleagues?

To be clear, my cleaner has been in the photos tagged as work meetings (with wine and all women snuggled on a sofa for the photo).

She has also posted her own pictures on other occasions with some of her work colleagues and some other women who are not colleagues. Same snuggled up type
photos. Comments and captions reflect that these are events happening at the time of posting, backed up by hangover posts the next day.

Basically, my cleaner is mixing in different groups of 5/6 with, not social distancing and the 5 or 6 are not all colleagues but sometimes they are, including the boss.

(And it's not always the same people)

I’d keep her but make sure I was out when she worked. Does she wear gloves?

If she calls you on it then I’d make up a very poorly great aunt for whom I need to be super cautious, because I’m a coward who fears conflict.

I would not employ anyone who behaves so irresponsible and certainly wouldn’t want the cleaner in my house. They believe most infections have been transmitted due to being inside and being within 2 metres of each other.

They would no longer be my cleaner and I’d report them as they could potentially infect hundreds between all of them.
I wouldn’t normally police the behaviour of others but some of their clients will be elderly or clinically vulnerable.
My grandmother is 93 and needs a cleaner-if this was hers I’d be livid!
We haven’t had our cleaner since March.

I honestly wouldn't want her in my house, let alone cleaning it, if I knew she had that attitude. Neither she nor her colleagues sound as though they give a stuff about social distancing. The pandemic isn't going to last forever. Why can't people act responsibly for the duration?

The fact that she is actively showcasing her disregard of the guidelines on social media tells its own story.

I haven't had a cleaner since March because my cleaner moved away and I couldn't trust a new one to be socially distancing.
I had a cleaner because I'm physically unable to do much in a day and some things are just not possible.
So my house is a tip, but I haven't been ill so I'll take the trade off. And look forward to the day vaccination has made a cleaner a possibility again

I'd find myself a new cleaner.

Clean your own house it your that bothered.

She would no longer be my cleaner and I would tell the company why.

@onedayinthefuture

Clean your own house it your that bothered.

This!

I would cancel and tell the company why. Irresponsible and stupid.

Aren't you in lockdown?

Aren't you in lockdown?

Hadn't you noticed that swathes of people can't wfh?

I get rid of her, to be that irresponsible that you're mixing with all those people but actually posting on SM is unreal. Doesn't anyone ever comment on their posts?

How are you going to feel when she contacts you to say she has tested positive, and she was in your house a day or two before that?
What you do now will depend on your answer to that question.
If it was me I wouldn't take the risk, but then I'm self isolating after going for a walk with a friend who tested positive 2 days later. It has really made me think about what risks are worth taking.

I wouldn’t be having a cleaner in, not worth the risk for something non essential to most. It would have to be essential work for me to have someone in currently.

I would tell her the truth though, actions have consequences.

She is at high risk for catching it. Imagine she phoned and said she had tested positive. How would that affect you? Do you have kids who couldn’t go to school?

Or probably more likely as she has so little regard for SD, she will have symptoms but not bother testing. And be in your house.

@onedayinthefuture
"Clean your own house it your that bothered"

I just don't understand why you'd post that, what are you getting at!?!

It seems my discomfort is well placed here. I don't know many people who take the rules seriously now, everyone seems to bend them a little so I didn't know if my thoughts on the issue were OTT. I figured at least for the workmates they do work together to clean houses however I expect that's supposed to be Covid Safe isn't it, not snuggled up together!

I'm happy to tell them why I'm cancelling.

[quote AbstractDot]@onedayinthefuture
"Clean your own house it your that bothered"

I just don't understand why you'd post that, what are you getting at!?!

It seems my discomfort is well placed here. I don't know many people who take the rules seriously now, everyone seems to bend them a little so I didn't know if my thoughts on the issue were OTT. I figured at least for the workmates they do work together to clean houses however I expect that's supposed to be Covid Safe isn't it, not snuggled up together!

I'm happy to tell them why I'm cancelling.[/quote]

Because your making a big song and dance about it, hire another cleaner if it makes you happy, except you won't know where they've been either. Or just clean your own sodding house.