Need to sack a Top cleaner because

[AntEater]

HE IS A MAN!!

Obviously he is a very nice man and perfectly respectful and an excellent cleaner but it feels all wrong. I mean another man in the house... I thought I was the only one!!
If I raise my (pathetic) objections with dw I open myself wide open to months of ridicule.

How do I get him the sack?

is it not better him doing the cleaning than you having to do it with your dw in your ear

Don't worry, your wife will be harbouring secret sexist reservations about his natural ability and will be measuring the results obsessively when nobody's looking. He won't last long .

Would it help if you thought of him as a janitor?

each time he's been just dirty it all up again....

when dw comes home add some..tsk tsk he's not very good is he darling!

fear that dw suspects I am less than happy about new male employee and have therefore lost the moral high-ground. Underhand methods will now have to be used..

Sounds to me like your dw has found her perfect man and has installed him into your household right under your nose

"did you ask him to clean out your knicker drawer darling?"

Don't sack him you nutjob, good cleaners are like gold dust.

Do you feel the same way about male chefs or waiters and male gardeners?

Are you saying you'd feel fine about a woman coming to clean your house? if so, seems a bit sexist to me.

Or are you saying that while you are at home, you don't feel happy about anyone coming in to clean the house?

If you are busy at home anyway (working from home, looking after children etc) And you can afford cleaning help then what is making you feel uptight - do you think you should be doing it all?

I think you should fear for your very life.

Everyone knows that 'the butler did it'.

Get caught in a compromising position with him (on the back seat of your chelsea tractor mebbe?)

That should do the trick

Tell your wife you think he's eaten your DD's hamster?

PMSL!!!!!!!!!!!!

As has already been said! You don't sack a top cleaner. They are blimming hard to come by (no pun intended!). I finally have a top cleaner and I don't care who I have to sleep with to keep her!

Where are you? If in St Albans send him over to me.

dw told me this morning that she may ask him to fix dd2s door lock next week
Now this has been on my 'to do 'list for around 3 years and has been a chip in the grand scheme of things for at least two years..
My position (as feared) is being undermined..

tigermoth. chefs, waiters and gardners do not enter 'the zone' Employ both men and women at work..

CD

Mummycan, used to live in Radlett but now reside in Cumbria!

your wife is a genius. Your only way out is to clear the list of those little jobs so that he can't be tasked with them, thereby regaining yourself man of the house status, while upping the ante in the romance/gifts/nights out together/nights out for her with her friends/tackling all the night wakings from the DCs/tea in bed in the mornings.

Blimey.... she's GOOD.

actually .. I don't think I'd like a 'man' coming to clean my house .. and I appreciate that's sexist

Meowmix is spot on I'm afraid, Anteater. Pull your socks up!

I know it. Dead in the water, how did this happen? Things were going so well

oh and NOW would be a good time to be seen with exotic holiday brochures and spa vouchers about your person.

I'm only telling you to be helpful you understand.

just seen this, twigett, and am sitting here
considering whether I would be more uncomfortable with the idea of a man coming to clean my house as opposed to a woman. Interesting. Hmm.... I don't think I would find it any different - perhaps I'd expect a man to be a bit more stern and meticulous, but then again, perhaps not.

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