Have you ever thought about how you treat your cleaner?

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Just reading a book about a woman who has everything, big house, loads of money then loses it all & takes up cleaning to make ends meet. She reflects on how she's treated her past cleaners as some of her clients aren't very nice.
I'm a self employed cleaner & have had many clients over the years & most have been great. Though I've had a few strange ones. Including a couple who made a drink In front of me & didn't offer me one on boiling hot day & I was there for 3 hours. Another client would never make me a drink but would offer any other visitor, handyman, computer guy, plumber etc one straight away. One husband could barely look at me, his wife was so lovely though.
I have one at the moment who is driving me mad. She's in & out of the room I'm cleaning, tidying up, saying little comments telling me what to do, when I go in another room she'll come in & ask if I'm alright! I feel she's trying to undermine me although I'm a bloody cleaner for goodness sake. Anyway she's getting my notice this week!

So all you with cleaner how do you view, treat them. Be honest.

I had the opposite issue... i’ve Had cleaners for over 10 years and always had lovely chats with them , offered them snacks etc and always let them get on with their clean, dropped them home many times if they where stuck for a lift. However the last lady we had started to control everything I did in my house!? She was OCD and it worked for us in the beginning as we love a clean spotless house however she started nagging me if I left a spoon in the midst of cooking or wet the basin to wash my veggies. If my husband had accidentally dropped a piece of chocolate on the bedsheet as while lying in bed, the next day . she told me we are not suppose to eat in our rooms 😳 there is a long list of her nagging me but the final straw was when she walked in on her shift and started asking me why am I cooking (I was making lunch for my 5 year old daughter) . Also it’s not like I leave a mess for her after I cook, I clean everything up myself. So that made me all flustered and accidentally while reaching for the sugar canister in my drawer I dropped the rice canister and all on the floor. Whilst I went to clean it all up , she stood over me and started shouting at me for dropping the rice in front of my daughter!!! I made her leave the very next min for good!

So I felt she took advantage of my good nature and just made me rethink on where to draw the line with being too nice and keep a line of professionalism but then again this was the first time I have experienced this behaviour, with all my previous cleaners there was always a level of respect.