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I need a good excuse to sack my cleaner?!?

  • 30-11-2007 6:08pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭


    She is 6 months pregnant and she is not doing a great job at the moment.

    I am not being bad but the last thing I need after paying her €15 an hour to do a job is to be coming home and not being happy. She is cutting corners big time and has to go.

    But I dont want to come accross as bad, I dont want anyone, unleashing their hormones on me!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Wait til she has the babog!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Lands Leaving


    You can't sack her for being pregnant, and this is a PI is it not?

    Try telling her to work harder maybe? thats pretty easy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭ParkRunner


    How long have you been hiring her for?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Is she on a contract or belonging to a come cleaning company?

    Tell them she's been stealing..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Quality


    She doesnt belong to a company, friends of mine had her, and they sacked her cause she wasnt working the full hours for them, But I have no way of catching her out on this!!

    One of them did some work from home, and caught her out a couple of times. I have a feeling she is doing the same to me...


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 510 ✭✭✭Ninja_scrotum


    Say to her "I want to do my own cleaning, I'm not a little baby anymore."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    humbert wrote: »
    Tell them she's been stealing..

    ... I don't even know where to start with this one... :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,315 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Quality wrote: »
    She is cutting corners big time and has to go.
    Here's the only reason you need: she's not doing the job that she's being paid for.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Lands Leaving


    Quality wrote: »
    She doesnt belong to a company, friends of mine had her, and they sacked her cause she wasnt working the full hours for them, But I have no way of catching her out on this!!

    One of them did some work from home, and caught her out a couple of times. I have a feeling she is doing the same to me...

    Just get a friend to call round occasionally if you can't be there, give them a key and they can check on her


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Explain that its not her, but its you.

    Tell her you need more space.

    Tell her you need to find out who you really are.

    Failing the classic break up lines, you should issue her with a verbal warning - be it formal or informal. By doing this, she might actually improve her cleaning or the shock of being sacked will be lowered as after all, you have warned her.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11 psilocin


    Mena wrote: »
    ... I don't even know where to start with this one... :confused:

    I'll get the ball rolling then. She's stealing pay by cutting corners. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭ParkRunner


    If she hasn't a contract or any expectation that it's a long term role then I don't see why you couldn't just be upfront with her and say you don't need her anymore. Im sure it's the last thing she needs being pregnant but that should have nothing to do with it really if she simply isn't doing what she is paid for.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭Agamemnon


    I thought for a second the thread title was "I need a good excuse to clean my sack?!?"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭oleras


    I had the same dilema with my chauffeur, i just said the same thing to him as i did to my personal cook.........Adios Amigo :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Jesus, What more of an excuse do you need if she is doing a crap job?
    Tell her your worried she'll break her water all over your carpet.

    There are heaps of filipinos that would do a much better job for cheaper.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭ircoha


    Quality wrote: »
    She doesnt belong to a company, friends of mine had her, and they sacked her cause she wasnt working the full hours for them, But I have no way of catching her out on this!!

    One of them did some work from home, and caught her out a couple of times. I have a feeling she is doing the same to me...

    of course u can
    just fit one of those wireless alarms to the doors and make her sign in and out: the engineers log will give u the intell u need


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 987 ✭✭✭keen


    Quality wrote: »
    She is 6 months pregnant and she is not doing a great job at the moment.

    I am not being bad but the last thing I need after paying her €15 an hour to do a job is to be coming home and not being happy. She is cutting corners big time and has to go.

    But I dont want to come accross as bad, I dont want anyone, unleashing their hormones on me!!

    Why don't you let your feelings known to her, tell her that you've noticed the work not being done well and if she continues to work below your standards you will have to find someone else. Either that or do it yourself.

    Maybe her pregnancy is having an effect on her and it's not down to her skiving.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    Just say you're having a few unexpected financial problems at the moment, and have to make cut backs on ALL luxuries, especially now it's coming up to Christmas, including hiring someone to do your cleaning. Give her a small golden handshake to send her on her way, and be done with it.

    just a thought


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Binomate


    You could poison her and dump her body up at the hell fire club. Just out of interest, is from Romania?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭A-Trak


    oleras wrote: »
    I had the same dilema with my chauffeur, i just said the same thing to him as i did to my personal cook.........Adios Amigo :D

    Me too.

    My butler has been taking the piss bigtime lately.
    Yestreday he served me my mornng tea in a mug as opposed to the finest of bone china. Would you believe it?

    I'm thinking of sacking him and hiring one of these ""Monkey Butlers," I keep hearing about.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭Jackz


    Give her a ring tell her you have a contagious disease and not to come in to work until further notice. Then just get on with your life and never contact her.

    She is probably taking cash in hand report her to the tax man.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Why do you have to sack her? Why not just tell her you're not happy with her work and if she doesn't improve then you'll have no choice but to let her go?

    Instead of moaning about it on an internet forum ffs!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Why did you hire her if your friends let her go for slacking off?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    Binomate wrote: »
    You could poison her and dump her body up at the hell fire club. Just out of interest, is from Romania?
    Brilliant plan!


    As others said .. if she's not doing her job then start there!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,408 ✭✭✭Huggles


    Stekelly wrote: »
    Why did you hire her if your friends let her go for slacking off?

    Was going to ask the very same thing. It's hardly a glowing reference. :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Perhaps this cleaner was quite the looker before she got preggers, perhaps her cleaning is actually still tip top....


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I'd clean your gaff for 15 quid an hour. God knows it's more than I earn as an IT professional. So, er, tell her that upon review the job requires a Comp Sci diploma or equivalent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,247 ✭✭✭ROCKMAN


    Tell her you heard that your husband was the father of her baby, and cannot have her near you or your house call her a couple of names and demand she leave ..............


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭The Hacker


    "Go away"

    simple & effective.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Poor you and your problems with the hired help.

    Anyway, just tell her to get her act together or she is fired. Simple as that.

    Also, Romanians go into a suitcase and then the royal canal, not the hellfire club.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 537 ✭✭✭Oswald Osbourne


    Just tell her you're turning your house into a microchip production plant and quite frankly you're not confident she could keep the place clean enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    For Gods sake she's supposed to be providing a service. Your her employer not her friend. Tell her your not happy with her work, tell her twice more then if your still not happy let her go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,135 ✭✭✭fifth


    Tell her your new woman has a fetish for dirty men.. and that she pays all the bills and you're sorry things had to end this way..but the house has to be less clean from now on..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,315 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Ensure you get the spare key from her, and that you change the alarm code, if you do decide to sack her.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,467 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    yeah just tell her youre not happy with the job she has been doing

    or maybe just stop paying her


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    eolhc wrote: »
    or maybe just stop paying her

    Milton Waddams: Mr. Lumbergh told me to talk to payroll and then payroll told me to talk to Mr. Lumbergh and I still haven't received my paycheck and he took my stapler and he never brought it back and then they moved my desk to storage room B and there was garbage on it...

    If she's not doing the job you're paying her for, tell her.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭Rhiannon14


    humbert wrote: »

    Tell them she's been stealing..

    you sicko

    :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Quality


    I was thinking of doing an alan sugar, call her in, sit her at the table, stare her down for a few minutes and then say your fired.

    But I cant be that heartless.

    I employed her the same time as my friends I found out she was pregnant about 2 weeks after she started working for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Rhyme wrote: »
    Milton Waddams: Mr. Lumbergh told me to talk to payroll and then payroll told me to talk to Mr. Lumbergh and I still haven't received my paycheck and he took my stapler and he never brought it back and then they moved my desk to storage room B and there was garbage on it...

    If she's not doing the job you're paying her for, tell her.
    LMAO.
    I think she wants rid of her altogether. :)


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,351 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Rhyme wrote: »
    Milton Waddams: Mr. Lumbergh told me to talk to payroll and then payroll told me to talk to Mr. Lumbergh and I still haven't received my paycheck and he took my stapler and he never brought it back and then they moved my desk to storage room B and there was garbage on it...

    I love that film :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Originally Posted by humbert

    Tell them she's been stealing..
    An old and favorite trick of some rich and to much money people .One cleaning lady turned the tables one such a person who used to leave jewelry around the house to tempt the otherwise honest hardworking lady .On seeing jewelry on a chair at the top of the stairs, she waited till the house owner was at the bottom and out of sight, and with her foot, 'flicked the jewelry down till they landed at her feet ,then on walking out the door with her coat on, looked the houseowner in the eye and told her to stick her job up her ASS . :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    OP, you came to the right place with your problem - we're ideal for help on this one because we can ALL relate...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    I'd imagine talking to her is probably your best bet. It's not as easy as changing hairdresser, you can't just not make any more appointments with her. The sooner you talk to her, the better for all of you.

    Dear begrudgers, fcuk sake, the woman is entitled to have a cleaner if her lifestyle warrants it. Green doesn't suit you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I think it's more the fact that she posts it up in a "this is such an everyday occurrence, everyone will know what I'm talking about" manner on Boards is what's irking people.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭Jackz


    "I need a good excuse to suck my cleaner?!?"

    With your lips?

    Terry are you drinking, I don't remember it being suck originally!!

    Also the the christmas threads thread poll has been fixed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    I need a good excuse to suck my cleaner?!?
    Huh?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,039 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Rabies wrote: »
    Huh?

    The thread title has been mysteriously edited!!!

    Bets are:

    A - Karoma
    B - Terry

    I vote A!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I saw that too..

    Yeah, if I had a cleaner, I'd want her to suck me too..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Lol ... I was wondering why it took 46 posts for anyone to comment! :D

    And my cleaner sucks me ... though I do have to plug it in first ... >_>


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Lands Leaving


    Let's all get cleaners to suck us. Vacuum cleaners.


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