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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the family member stealing it and her not wanting to admit it to herself is a good guess.  If you'd replaced the "lost" money the first time I'd be more inclined to think it was a scam.

[b]I have friends who used the same cleaning lady for 4 years, and when they were out of town she brought her teenaged son with her when she came to clean.  He dumped out a huge water bottle (like a water cooler bottle) of change that he found in their closet, picked out everything bigger than a dime, and put all the pennies and nickels back in.  They had cameras, they watched it when they got back.  She *would not believe* that he would steal from them, so they had to let her go.  In the end it wasn't much money, but it was a judgment problem.  Bringing him, not watching him, refusing to believe the evidence.  I think it is something about parents - better to believe a fantasy (my big annual bonus is so slippery I must have dropped it again!) then the more obvious truth.[/quote][/b]

We had a similar experience - our cleaning lady brought her boyfriend (whom we did not know at all) in with her while we were away and we caught it all on camera.  And with another nanny, we went out of state for holiday vacation during which period she used our credit card number to buy all sorts of gifts for her family.  I guess she thought I didn't check the bills.  We had to confront her and show her the charges (Alexandria Bike shop, etc.) and she played dumb and hemmed and hawed.  We set up a payment plan so that all of the charges (significant) were taken out of her weekly paycheck but in retrospect we should have let her go that moment.[/quote]

Growing up my cleaning lady would bring her daughter occasionally. I started to notice my allowance would go missing sometimes. I told my mom and we realized it was the daughter. My cleaning lady absolutely did NOt believe us but set up her daughter anyway. Daughter took the money. She sent her back to her home country literally like 3 weeks later. I always felt terrible but she wanted her to have a good religious education surrounded by a lot of family. No idea what happened to the daughter. [/quote]

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