Would You Deduct pay from Cleaning Lady for Vase IF....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know she broke it because it's only me and the cat, and I don't think the cat would have taken all the broken pieces and put them inside the vase, and then propped it up against the wall.

It is not an expensive vase. I'd guess $50 tops. I was thinking of docking her $25, mainly because I am annoyed she didn't tell me. As I said, she's broken a few other things - a picture frame, little things like that - and I've always told her not to worry about it.

And no....no contract. She comes infrequently, and not on a regular schedule.

She's your house-cleaner, not your child.

Pay her for her work. If you don't like her work, find a different house-cleaner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You sound like an asshole OP. Who cares if she told you or didn't tell you? The outcome remains the same. Deal with it and move on. If you're unhappy with her work, find someone else.

I don't know if OP is an asshole, but cats... can definitely be mischievous assholes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know she broke it because it's only me and the cat, and I don't think the cat would have taken all the broken pieces and put them inside the vase, and then propped it up against the wall.

It is not an expensive vase. I'd guess $50 tops. I was thinking of docking her $25, mainly because I am annoyed she didn't tell me. As I said, she's broken a few other things - a picture frame, little things like that - and I've always told her not to worry about it.

And no....no contract. She comes infrequently, and not on a regular schedule.

And this time, she did just that. Cleaned it up and left it. Maybe she honestly didn’t remember to tell you.

If you told me in the past “not to worry about it” then got all pissy and docked my pay, I’d quit.

[Anonymous]

Decorative vases are tacky. She did you a favor.

[Anonymous]

its creepy to keep shit from your old boyfriend anyway

[Anonymous]

it’s a $50 vase that you probably could get $5 for if you tried to sell it. I can already tell by your question that you are a real piece of work.

[Anonymous]

This is OP again. Thanks, and I'm just going to forget about it. I'm moving on now and probably won't be checking additional responses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:it’s a $50 vase that you probably could get $5 for if you tried to sell it. I can already tell by your question that you are a real piece of work.

But it’s from her old boyfriend. It has memory value. She wants the hardworking cleaner to pay the difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP again. Thanks, and I'm just going to forget about it. I'm moving on now and probably won't be checking additional responses.

You know you will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP again. Thanks, and I'm just going to forget about it. I'm moving on now and probably won't be checking additional responses.

....especially since the people who like to insult perfect strangers have started in!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is OP again. Thanks, and I'm just going to forget about it. I'm moving on now and probably won't be checking additional responses.

....especially since the people who like to insult perfect strangers have started in!

And OP has no clue what happened with her base, but she’s ready to chastise the cleaner.

Maybe her dumb cat knocked it over.

[Anonymous]

NO . . . Shit happens

She's been with us for 25 years. A few things have been torn and broken, but Rosy has paid for those things a hundred times over. She must carry a Ziploc back in her pocket because every now and then I find Ziploc bags of change around the house. Apparently, when she finds loose change around the house she puts it in a plastic bag and puts it on my nightstand or the island.

There's been times I've lost things for a couple years and Rosy will find it maybe under a sofa cushion or who knows where. Without any fanfare she puts it someplace where I'll find it.

Rosy is part of our family. We'd never charge her for breakage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NO . . . Shit happens

She's been with us for 25 years. A few things have been torn and broken, but Rosy has paid for those things a hundred times over. She must carry a Ziploc back in her pocket because every now and then I find Ziploc bags of change around the house. Apparently, when she finds loose change around the house she puts it in a plastic bag and puts it on my nightstand or the island.

There's been times I've lost things for a couple years and Rosy will find it maybe under a sofa cushion or who knows where. Without any fanfare she puts it someplace where I'll find it.

Rosy is part of our family. We'd never charge her for breakage.

Can I borrow Rosy?

[Anonymous]

Its not enough that you pay the maid peanuts to clean your house. You want to dock her for a vase that the cat may have broken or somebody else. Unless you are a recluse with no friends, its the cat or the maid. The cats not talking.

[Anonymous]

I have two mischievous kitty kats OP & let me tell you....
Those little devils break any + everything in their path.

Considering your cleaner has mentioned past breakages w/you, then it is likely your cat broke it and the cleaner didn’t know who left the broken pieces, but did her job and cleaned up the mess.

I wouldn’t dock her pay since house cleaners work really hard for low pay & $25 deducted from her weekly pay may mean a half a tank of gasoline for her car.