VENTING- SO ANNOYED AT FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES STILl USING NANNIES AND CLEANERS

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Anonymous wrote:But they are all near each other.

Who??

Lawn crew.

So are all the other workers authorized by the state to continue working during the lockdown.

This includes liquor stores, gun shops, home repair businesses, sanitation workers, bankers and auto repair shops among others. ALL of these jobs are allowed.

If people aren't breaking the law, and continuing to work enables them to maintain employment and consequently their health insurance, why do you care?

But mulching your lawn is not essential. Or is it???

Landscapers were deemed essential because the government doesn't want senior citizens out mowing a lawn and getting a heart attack, or forcing disabled people to let their lawns get overrun and become a breeding ground for mice or other vermin (which can spread disease), or allow dangerous branches to be unremoved from trees which could later fall on someone and send them to the ER.

The crew is already exposed to each other because they are doing worked deemed essential.

They are not a danger to the public because the home owner is either indoors or well away from the worker when he is on the property.

[Anonymous]

Are you a senior citizen or disabled? If a service is not essential to you, should you be using it and thus increasing the risk for the worker?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you a senior citizen or disabled? If a service is not essential to you, should you be using it and thus increasing the risk for the worker?

Once again. They are already working together. The lockdown order allows it. They are not exposing themselves to the homeowners.

[Anonymous]

Our nanny has continued to work every day. She lives alone, walks to work, and sees no one else but us. We see no one else but her. DH does an every two week grocery store trip for nanny and us.

We aren’t breaking the rules, OP.

[Anonymous]

We don't have a nanny, cleaners, or a yard crew, but I can certainly understand how, in some circumstances, those could be deemed necessary for others. We do have a construction crew that has been here 3 days a week (depending on weather) for the past several weeks. We had scheduled them to demolish our old deck and construct a new one well before the stay at home orders were enacted. They are outside. We are inside. The foreman calls our cells to discuss any issues. I had mixed feelings about having them here doing the work, but they appear to be very appreciative to have the work right now, as several of their other jobs have been cancelled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our lawn crew arrive in separate trucks (two of them) and wear masks.

Same. Our cleanup was done this week and they did wear masks the whole time. The mower is a single guy.

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Anonymous wrote:WTF? There's nothing wrong with us having our nanny continue to work. They live alone, and we are ordering all the groceries they want. DH drives the nanny back and forth each day so they don't have to take mass transit or Uber.

They?

They can now be used as a singular pronoun. Perhaps PPs nanny is non binary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just don’t say you are in for flattening the curve if you can’t clean your own house or do minimal yardwork. Mowing once a week doesn’t take that long.

Explain how firing your lawn guy flattens the curve. You are nowhere near him!

The lawn people I see work in teams of 2-4 people. None of them are wearing masks. They all ride in the same truck, sitting next to one another, shoulder to shoulder. So while they are not near to each other when they are working, they are in close contact in the truck and I have not seen them wearing masks.

So while the people who are using the lawn services are not in danger, the lawn service workers are. And it is hard for me to see that as being essential during this time period.

We don't have lawn folks, DH does the work on his own. I have noticed that a bunch of my neighbors have increased their service, probably taking care of long term plans while they have the time. I am not judging but it does not seem to be something that is essential.

For people who can't cut the lawn due to disabilities. I see teens posting offers to cut lawns and do yard work for pretty inexpensive prices. They would be working solo and able to handle the basics.

We did cancel our house cleaners. As much as I dislike cleaning the bathroom, it is not worth having 2-3 people who are coming and going from other peoples houses come to my house. But that was a decision we made as a family.

You should run for governor, then you can decide what is essential.

And, you completely undermined your own point - it's OK to hire a local teen to do your lawn, but not the hardworking lawn guys who actually need the income? Idiot.

[Anonymous]

We've had our cleaners come a few times. They work for a corporate office cleaning company which provides them with: Masks, booties, gloves - new when they come in our house. They change their vacuum bag with every house, use disinfecting products and wipe down the inside of their car. The team is two sisters who live together.

We leave the house before they enter and don't return until they are gone. They leave our house more hygienic than when they arrive and we provide them with a big tip as well. I have no problem with this and am happy to keep more people employed than not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just don’t say you are in for flattening the curve if you can’t clean your own house or do minimal yardwork. Mowing once a week doesn’t take that long.

Explain how firing your lawn guy flattens the curve. You are nowhere near him!

The lawn people I see work in teams of 2-4 people. None of them are wearing masks. They all ride in the same truck, sitting next to one another, shoulder to shoulder. So while they are not near to each other when they are working, they are in close contact in the truck and I have not seen them wearing masks.

So while the people who are using the lawn services are not in danger, the lawn service workers are. And it is hard for me to see that as being essential during this time period.

We don't have lawn folks, DH does the work on his own. I have noticed that a bunch of my neighbors have increased their service, probably taking care of long term plans while they have the time. I am not judging but it does not seem to be something that is essential.

For people who can't cut the lawn due to disabilities. I see teens posting offers to cut lawns and do yard work for pretty inexpensive prices. They would be working solo and able to handle the basics.

We did cancel our house cleaners. As much as I dislike cleaning the bathroom, it is not worth having 2-3 people who are coming and going from other peoples houses come to my house. But that was a decision we made as a family.

You should run for governor, then you can decide what is essential.

And, you completely undermined your own point - it's OK to hire a local teen to do your lawn, but not the hardworking lawn guys who actually need the income? Idiot.

Exactly. It's ok for the UMC teen to earn her dollars but not the guy with the family to feed? Please.

[Anonymous]

Dude, get over it. This disease is NOT as deadly as everyone was worried about.

[Anonymous]

My cleaners are coming. I want them to stay employed and make money. They wear masks and gloves and we leave the house until they are done. What harm is there? They are safer than someone working at a grocery store. We get a clean house. They make money. Win - win for all!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The house cleaners and lawn services do make me laugh. What else are you doing on the weekends?

Our lawn service still comes. Not sure how it's unsafe for anyone to have a person out there mowing your lawn. They aren't coming in the house like cleaners or interacting with anyone.

[Anonymous]

OP and people like her are nuts, just truly mentally unstable. How people handle this says so much about them.

[Anonymous]

My friend is a manager at a tree service company and he and his team are REALLY thankful for the work right now and want people to continue using them. Lawn and tree work is very safe compared to other jobs that are open right now like warehouse and retail work (and it also pays better in the case of the guys who can operate certain machines).