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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would think the putting back things in a line -was her attempt at showing you she did take everything off and dust.  From what I have heard, this is rare (to actually move things), but if it drives you nuts, you could just tell her to dust around it.

[b]For putting things away, this would bug me, but I thought the ettiquite (may be be the wrong word) is that your house is tidied up before the cleaning person comes.  Again, I think most services won't move things, so if you have crap on your floor, it doesn't get vaccuumed (I could be wrong).  If it is moved because she is taking everythign off and then putting it back, the solution is to tell her to clean around it.[/b]

The bleach thing would be a deal breaker to me.

She may have forgotten she was paid to clean the entire house.  I'd be tempted to remind her.  But if she isn't cleaning, I would give her notice.

I do think it is OK to sit down with her and "review" what you expect from her.   [/quote]

That's the thing. You are right that the etiquette is to have things put away. I will say that part of this issue may be on us - a pair of shoes left by the door will get put into the kids' toybox and the solution is clear: pick up the shoes and put them where they belong (hello, DH, this means you! :)). But, so will a phone charger on the side table. I mean, we're not talking about her having to wade through a crazy mess of toys - those are mainly picked up every night, so absent the odd thing or two our kid is playing with, it's not crazy messy. But anything that IS out, will get put into odd places. And this is anything that's out in any room of the house. So if DS knocked a coaster on the floor and the coaster is behind the couch, say, it will get put into the toybox, not into the stack of coasters 5 feet away from it. So she's just not taking any time to put one or two stray items where they very clearly belong (or, in the case of say a car / wall cell phone charger or something) at least realizing that it does not go into a toy box. I go back and forth between this being a way for her to comment on what she thinks of things lying around and her just not taking time. Either way, even if I'm totally in the wrong and should be scouring the house for stray objects before she comes, that doesn't work for me, it doesn't make my life easier in the way I want to spend 300 bucks to do. As I said, I think I'm trying to convince myself it's okay to cut bait here. [/quote]

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