13 Things Your Housecleaner Won’t Tell You

You should do an article on 13 things owners won’t tell their housekeepers!

You should do an article on 13 things owners won’t tell their housekeepers!

You should do an article on 13 things owners won’t tell their housekeepers!

You should do an article on 13 things owners won’t tell their housekeepers!

You should do an article on 13 things owners won’t tell their housekeepers!

You should do an article on 13 things owners won’t tell their housekeepers!

Asking for an hour of time I do not agree with.
Without there being a bottom line of minimum time it hardly makes it worth it 
for the person to travel there and back for whatever thier hourly wage is..
Due to the real estate market crash in upstate NY, my home staging business was not thriving this year and I now have 4 houses I clean a week.
If I were to come for one hour, that would not pay for the gas and time to get there and back.
And I know in my case I would see other things that needed to be done and not be able to just
leave them.
All of that for 20 to 25 dollars only makes sense for the client.

>> “My best clients are people who work for their money, like teachers…”
LOL!  Tell that to the millions of high school graduates that cannot write their own name or find their state on a map of the US because their “hard working” teachers were more interested in finding ways to pad their benefits package than doing their job.  BTW, aren’t we supposed to believe that teachers are grossly underpaid for the terrible job they do?  What are they doing with housecleaners anyway?
Oh, and we all know that rich people just stumbled upon their money and didn’t work for it.  This article sounds like it was written by someone who learned how the world works by watching TV sitcoms.

#7, Often an agency can’t send the same person each time because employees find clients of their own and end up quiting the agency to make more money.

#8 If you leave $ on the counter we will take it thinking it’s a tip. Put houskeepers to the test by leaving money sticking out of a purse, or in a clear (or nor clear) jar on a counter,or a dress purse in a closet. Theives won’t always take what’s obvious, they want to be gone before you notice.

#10 True! Housekeepers are not there to organize your house. They’re there to clean it. Can’t disinfect a surface if the surface is burried under clutter.

#11 Not always true. I have kept many secrets for my clients. ( drug use, sex toys, infidelities) Some have compensated me for my loyalties some didn’t need to. However if a client treats me like a dog all bets are off.

Do NOT ask if a cleaner can come for only an hour it’s not worth their time unless you pay very well! When I did cleaning (10 years ago) I made $20 an hour and it would not have been worth my commute time, gas and paying for a sitter. That is why I had a 3 hr. min.

 Oh good grief, take your agenda on down the road.  A teacher taught YOU, you got yours, and now everybody else gets to listen to your ranting. 

Yes teachers are underpaid.  And overworked.  And if they chose to spend their money on a housecleaner, then what’s it to you?  That’s capitalism, clown.  I’m sure if someone told YOU how to spend your precious money, you’d be up in arms and ranting again…

Now I’ve just fed the troll, sorry all.

It may depend on the situation…when I was a young working single mom in a town home, there was a great lady who was already cleaning several townhomes right next door.  She would come and spend about 2 hours at my place once a week.  It worked out well for both of us.

Number four bit me in the butt. I had a MacBook stolen right out of my house. It took me two full weeks for me to convince my wife that I hadn’t lost it or that my son’s friends hadn’t stolen it. (I am still not sure, three years later, that she believe the housecleaners stole it.) 

“just another guy” , I think you misinterpreted S1974 comment. It’s obviously a brilliant piece of satire skewering the practice of injecting irrelevant and  inane opinions into article comments.

There’s no way that someone would post something as idiotic as “…millions of high school graduates that can’t write their own name…” unless they intended satire. It’s obviously a fictional statistic that’s designed to poke fun at people who conjure  grossly inflated numbers.

Also, since all of the quotes came from actual business owners involved in the cleaning business, no one would question the writer’s grasp of reality or try to bring in such unrelated topics as teacher pay and performance unless they were trying to satirically portray a knee-jerk, stick-my-politics-into-any-discussion-so-I-can-rant-and-feel-better-about-myself kind of person.

S1974: You so perfectly portray the writing of a self-righteous, idealogically-bound simpleton that we must declare you the Swift of this comment thread.

I teach at a charter school and there is no teacher’s union, and therefore no employment protection. We work hard everyday, and many evenings, to secure our jobs for the next school year. How dare you make the general accusation that teachers are busy doing other things and do a terrible job. I have never complained about the money I get paid and I don’t have a housecleaner. Luckily, due in part to my efforts, my students can write their names, a cogent and defensible argument not based on emotion, and they don’t begin their sentences with text letters.

 Teachers underpaid?  My a$$.  Like many “professions”, there are those who go the extra mile for no extra pay… but they work about half the hours that I did as an engineer and corporate purchasing manager… and that was just what was stated when I was hired.  That didn’t include the business trips, the late nights, the early mornings, etc.  But I didn’t complain about that or become saintly (ala Timmy Tebow).  All those “in-service” days… many teachers just don’t show up.  My daughter (back in the 80s) went through FEBRUARY before she had a full week (all five days) in school.  So if you work half hours, don’t complain you have to work summers like the ordinary people.  By the way, I went through public schools in Scotia, NY, and think I got a great education from some dedicated teachers (but that was another day, another time, another work ethic).  We won’t talk about the deadbeat, underqualified teachers I saw later in some well-known State universities.

 and PS – many teachers I know admit to going into teaching because they couldn’t/wouldn’t hack the education required for a more lucrative profession – and mostly because they only had to work half the hours and got the whole summer off.  And then there’s the union reps among them – who would take my head off for uttering such blasphemy.

 ever review papers written by remedial freshmen English students at large universities (in my case, Ohio State)???  Maybe they can write their own name (such as Billy-Bob) but they have to print it, and can’t string together two legible sentences.  Then there was the Washington, DC high-school class valedictorian (who started at George Washington Univ while I was there) who got an 800 on his SAT – that’s a 400 on verbal and a 400 on the math part.  Yes, he was illiterate – but he was a good ni&&er who just “got along” and got passed for not creating trouble.