Cleaning Lady Shoes

[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]

Anonymous wrote:

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]

Anonymous wrote:

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 ?

[Anonymous]

Shoe covers sound like a fall risk. I would not clean stairs or mop floors in them.

[Anonymous]

Household employee here. I buy a pair of house shoes for no shoe households. A gift card to Amazon or a shoe store would be a nice way to suggest this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get disposable shoe covers and ask her to wear those over her shoes.

I'm a no shoe house, and I don't think this is reasonable. Cleaning a house is hard work, and the slipperiness of shoe covers could be a liability.

If you are worried about the cleanliness of your house cleaners' shoes, you can offer to buy ones specifically to wear at your home. I personally wouldn't cap the price.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Please start a new thread and tell us about your riches to rags story!

[Anonymous]

Disposable shoe covers are very reasonable.