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Hi,
For mothers day, my son hired a service to come and clean my house. He ordered the service a month ago for a start time of 9.30am yesterday. That morning they had no one to send, and finally located someone who showed up at 2:45 in the after noon.
My house is between 1200 &1300 sq feet with a few areas that needed attention(very dirty). I have a heavy oak table up against two windows where tons of cobwebs accummulated on the window sills and behind another desk. My son and a friend moved the desk that morning. The rest was ordinary cleaning.
She is 48 yrs old, fat, out of breath, come with a few rags and didn't seem to know how to clean, although she said she had been doing this for a year. She was very slow, out of breath and did a terrible job. I had to direct her all the way through the downstairs., including how to clean the cobwebs.(broom-no spiders). She didn't clean the inside of microwave, wipe down fridge, clean part of kitchen and bathroom floor, no baseboards, no coffee table. She did a good job with stove and wiping down my white cabinets.
Here is the dilemma. She chatted with me and told me about her life. What a hard life. She lives and shares the rent with 2 grown children and two younger children . Her first husband committed suicide. She lived with another man and her youngest daughter
has downs syndrome with lots of surgeries. She only just went to school, cant speak, but in one word answers and must take the daughter with her at all times. The childs father hightailed it out of her abode as soon as the child was born. She said she has very little schooling and so can't get a job doing anything else but house-cleaning. The childs father sort of beat the dows syndrome child, who is 12, because she had an accident while in his care. So she has court dates scheduled for that.
My son said she didn't even do his bathroom sink and is disgusted at how she performed. I agree she was terrible, but I am torn about what to say about her. The service usually calls to see how it went. We payed her extra time because she exceeded the 3 hrs alloted.
Do I(my son) tell the truth or should i just chalk it up to ????. Life is hard. I don't want to think that this woman won't get jobs because of what we said. A dirty floor isn't that important. I could think of it as doing good without getting something in return.
What do you-all think?
Thanks,
Annette
For mothers day, my son hired a service to come and clean my house. He ordered the service a month ago for a start time of 9.30am yesterday. That morning they had no one to send, and finally located someone who showed up at 2:45 in the after noon.
My house is between 1200 &1300 sq feet with a few areas that needed attention(very dirty). I have a heavy oak table up against two windows where tons of cobwebs accummulated on the window sills and behind another desk. My son and a friend moved the desk that morning. The rest was ordinary cleaning.
She is 48 yrs old, fat, out of breath, come with a few rags and didn't seem to know how to clean, although she said she had been doing this for a year. She was very slow, out of breath and did a terrible job. I had to direct her all the way through the downstairs., including how to clean the cobwebs.(broom-no spiders). She didn't clean the inside of microwave, wipe down fridge, clean part of kitchen and bathroom floor, no baseboards, no coffee table. She did a good job with stove and wiping down my white cabinets.
Here is the dilemma. She chatted with me and told me about her life. What a hard life. She lives and shares the rent with 2 grown children and two younger children . Her first husband committed suicide. She lived with another man and her youngest daughter
has downs syndrome with lots of surgeries. She only just went to school, cant speak, but in one word answers and must take the daughter with her at all times. The childs father hightailed it out of her abode as soon as the child was born. She said she has very little schooling and so can't get a job doing anything else but house-cleaning. The childs father sort of beat the dows syndrome child, who is 12, because she had an accident while in his care. So she has court dates scheduled for that.
My son said she didn't even do his bathroom sink and is disgusted at how she performed. I agree she was terrible, but I am torn about what to say about her. The service usually calls to see how it went. We payed her extra time because she exceeded the 3 hrs alloted.
Do I(my son) tell the truth or should i just chalk it up to ????. Life is hard. I don't want to think that this woman won't get jobs because of what we said. A dirty floor isn't that important. I could think of it as doing good without getting something in return.
What do you-all think?
Thanks,
Annette
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