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My Cleaner.....

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9BeetrootsDancing · 28/12/2006 11:49

Would you be happy if:

Your cleaner hooved the living room and did not hoover under the chairs, rung, wipe the dust?

If you asked her 4 times to hoover the stairs before she did it.

if she left the polish and cleaning clothes littered all over th house

if she missed cleaning the sink in the bathroom

If you had to write her a list every week and she ignored most of it?

While you are debating this I shall go clean up after her

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mancmum · 28/12/2006 11:50

she is not a cleaner... I clean like that which is why I employ a cleaner!! (A proper one!!)

asleep · 28/12/2006 11:51

no, that doesn't sound right.

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9BeetrootsDancing · 28/12/2006 11:52

I keep looking round the living room and laughing -

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SherlockLGJ · 28/12/2006 11:53

I would fire her, but not until you have a replacement.

You may want to point out to her that in order to pay her £X (tax free) you have to earn Y and pay Z tax on it, so in essence she is being paid more than she thinks and would she like to start earning it. ???

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9BeetrootsDancing · 28/12/2006 11:54

I have tried, she just cannot do it.

She has to go -

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FrostyTheSnowMarsLady · 28/12/2006 11:55

I would get another cleaner. Mine is an angel. I would sell one of the children to keep her! (Oh and she irons like a dream as well)

SherlockLGJ · 28/12/2006 11:57

I had to fire my last one as she was stealing from me. It took a while to get another, so every Saturday we had a good old cleaning session and then I took DH and DS out to the pub and spent the money I would have spent on the cleaner on a pub lunch. Everyone was happy.

I was happier when I got another cleaner, but it was a good stop gap.

Can you bribe your brood in this manner ?

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9BeetrootsDancing · 28/12/2006 12:04

if I join the flylady thread then I can keep things going for a while.

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Carmenere · 28/12/2006 12:06

Are people who have cleaners allowed on the fly threads?You'll be chased off Beety

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9BeetrootsDancing · 28/12/2006 12:07

I am not sure I can call the lady who comes to my house a cleaner though

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Carmenere · 28/12/2006 12:08

Ah yes good point

piglit · 28/12/2006 12:20

I had a cleaner like this years and years ago. She used to come in when I was at work so I didn't see her very often. I realised that she ignored all my notes asking her to do x and y. I asked her one day why she didn't do any of the things in my notes (in the nicest possible way of course) and she admitted that she couldn't read.

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9BeetrootsDancing · 28/12/2006 12:47

piglit - omg!

my clenaer can read - she used to follow the notes but now says she knows my house well and does not need to!

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WideWebWitch · 28/12/2006 12:48

No I wouldn't be happy with this.

batters · 28/12/2006 13:31

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hortense · 28/12/2006 13:37

I am so lucky my cleaner is so good...but she does leave me notes tellng me what to do!!!! have to say it does mean that the housekeepng is done efficiently with no doubling up of jobs and other jobs left undone.

Unlike me she has a system and is very organised! (wink)

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9BeetrootsDancing · 28/12/2006 13:47

I have just spent an hour cleaning the sitting room. every corner is clean - and she said she had done it..

I know I know I have to wave her goodbye!!!!

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Amanda1 · 28/12/2006 16:43

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9BeetrootsDancing · 28/12/2006 16:58

I have someone who irons (she was myold cleaner but was not very good, although was fab at irnoing so she does 2 hours a week) The new cleaner has nonly beenw ith me for a month and really has to go

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Amanda1 · 28/12/2006 18:27

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9BeetrootsDancing · 28/12/2006 20:04

it is cheap down 'ere!!!

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NappiesGalooooooooooooria · 30/12/2006 15:54

we had cleaners, plural - was supposed to be a firm and we paid for a set no of hours pw so they just sent more people. same ones each week... they were USELESS
came in, threw some clothes and toys to the sides of the rooms, waved dusters about a bit, hoovered the most obvious bits and then dumped a load of water on the kitchen floor and moved it about a bit with a mop. total of about 15minutes for 3 people by the end...
they worked for us for about a year - coz i was too chicken to fire them!! wtf?? i have working class upbringing tho, dont deal well with domestic staff

FLAMEinEckItsYuleAgain · 30/12/2006 16:03

I want a tidier... can you employ one of those? I'd be happy to do the cleaning side of things if someone came in once or twice a week and just tidied

Not that any of that is relevant. You're psying for a service, you're not getting it... not much point in keepin paying for it id there?

blossomsmine · 06/01/2007 00:08

I used to work for a cleaning firm and these cleaners are told not to tidy just to clean. I always used to feel bad about not tidying.

BadHair · 06/01/2007 00:28

No, not acceptable. My MIL is a cleaner and has a waiting list of people who want to employ her. She'd never dream of leaving the underside of a rug or sofa un-hoovered - it would be plain unprofessional and I doubt she could bring herself to do it.

She once advised all her clients to buy a particular make of vacuum cleaner as she considered it the best on the market. They all valued her so much that within a week each and every one had been out and bought one.

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