Cleaning Lady Shoes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We switch from indoor shoes to take out trash, pick flowers, get paper, etc.

What a pain in the ass.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She is not your cleaner. She is an independent contractor and you are not her employer.

Clean your own house.

I don't think that's true. We tell the cleaning lady when to come, we provide the cleaning materials, and ask her to clean specific areas and do specific chores.

Do you pay employer taxes for her?

[Anonymous]

My cleaning ladies come with shoe covers. As I have no carpet in the house other than small rugs, I told them they didn't need to put the covers on. Their shoes are fine in my house. I also told them that they don't need to wear masks unless they choose to do so to protect themselves from viruses or fumes.
I have no small children.

[Anonymous]

Why not no just buy her a full Haz-Mat suit with recirculating air supply? Or get a robot like the Jetson’s had?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I realized today that my cleaning lady wears her shoes in our house. We don't wear shoes in the house so I find that gross. She doesn't mop upstairs so it feels extra gross. Can I give her $60 to get shoes to wear inside of my house? I don't want her to wear socks only in case the floor is wet, yuck.

Do you live in a third world country where animals run amok and defecate in the street? Do you and your family deliberately step where these animals choose to relieve themselves?

I live in a lovely area where people have horses and even ride their horses on country roads and, obviously, horses are not toilet trained but no one on my family is so stupid to deliberately walk in horse manure. I suggest that you retrain your family as to where to walk.

Huh? A lot of people don't wear shoes in the house, even in the US. There are mega threads on DCUM about it. Is stepping in animal poop the only reason you won't wear shoes in the house? What about humans spitting, oil from cars, food on the ground? You think the streets of the US are clean?

There is a lot of open defecation in US cities like San Fransisco.

how does that affect us in suburban DC?

DC tends to copy SF’s most extreme laws and regulations.

Lots of human excrement all over the streets of DC too. Can’t do anything about it though.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, unless you are paying through the nose or have a housekeeper, you can’t police this imo. For safety and healthy reasons, they need to wear shoes. BUT do have her mop upstairs.

[Anonymous]

She leaves a pair of crocs — that I gave her — and changes into them when she comes to my home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I realized today that my cleaning lady wears her shoes in our house. We don't wear shoes in the house so I find that gross. She doesn't mop upstairs so it feels extra gross. Can I give her $60 to get shoes to wear inside of my house? I don't want her to wear socks only in case the floor is wet, yuck.

Why yuck?

Would you want to wear socks on a wet floor and then put your shoes back on on top of those wet socks and continue with your work day?

How is that not obviously an unreasonable thing to ask?

I think that asking for her to purchase a pair of indoor shoes of her choice to keep at the house, and providing some $ to pay for it is a perfect solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Please give her money to buy a new pair of shoes to wear inside your house.

No. She should have indoor shoes for this purpose that she buys herself. That is part of the expense of her doing business. Wearing outdoor shoes in anyone’s house she is cleaning should be unacceptable

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Please give her money to buy a new pair of shoes to wear inside your house.

No. She should have indoor shoes for this purpose that she buys herself. That is part of the expense of her doing business. Wearing outdoor shoes in anyone’s house she is cleaning should be unacceptable

Except that in the US it isn’t universally unacceptable. If you personally think it’s unacceptable to you, then your solution to your problem should be at your expense — not hers. You can afford to pay someone else to clean your house, yet cheap out when it comes to making it easier to do the job to your specifications?

OTOH, you know nothing about the other people she works for. Let’s say she buys a pair of indoor shoes, and only uses them for work. Would you be fine with her wearing her indoor shoes in your home — even knowing that she might be wearing them in other homes where people routinely keep their outdoor shoes on all the time?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She is not your cleaner. She is an independent contractor and you are not her employer.

Clean your own house.

I don't think that's true. We tell the cleaning lady when to come, we provide the cleaning materials, and ask her to clean specific areas and do specific chores.

If your cleaning lady isn’t an independent contractor, you better be taking out payroll taxes and paying unemployment insurance.

[Anonymous]

I used to have a full-time house staff. I provided uniforms, showers, etc. You don't, I don't have that anymore, and I demand nothing. I am grateful that someone cleans my house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clean your own house if this bothers you so much.

[Anonymous]

She’s also wearing clothes that she wore at some filthy strangers house and bring that into your home. I bet her clothes are covered with minute fecal material from the toilets she cleans. You need a cleaner to clean after your cleaner man.

[Anonymous]

do you pay her in cash ?