Why do I even bother?

[Anonymous]

I do the organizational tasks around the house I have been asked to do while the kids are at school and I kid you not, it is completely destroyed within days by not just the kids, but the parents too! What is the point of me constantly doing the same crap over and over again if they can't even keep it the way I had for more than a few days?! So annoying!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do the organizational tasks around the house I have been asked to do while the kids are at school and I kid you not, it is completely destroyed within days by not just the kids, but the parents too! What is the point of me constantly doing the same crap over and over again if they can't even keep it the way I had for more than a few days?! So annoying!

I feel ya, it sometimes just feels like they are giving me busy work.

[Anonymous]

Stop doing it. Or if it's part of your job then its something you agreed to and you gotta keep doing it. Messes will always get made within days.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps try to get the kids in the habit of keeping things organized. If they're in school, they're old enough to maintain an organizational system for more than a day or two. It sounds a little bit like the whole family is treating you like "the help" in that they don't feel the need to pick up messes since that's "your job".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps try to get the kids in the habit of keeping things organized. If they're in school, they're old enough to maintain an organizational system for more than a day or two. It sounds a little bit like the whole family is treating you like "the help" in that they don't feel the need to pick up messes since that's "your job".

Exactly they're lazy and they encourage their kids to be helpless too. I try to instill in the kids to clean up after themselves, but with the parents not doing the same, it's difficult to maintain. The parents are just as bad. They leave food in the sink and the counters dirty from the night before when I wasn't even there. I swear these people would have a toxic trash house if not for me and the house cleaner that comes once per week to do the deep cleans. The kids have become entitled spoiled brats because shit always gets done for them. It's ridiculous. Thank goodness I am leaving this job in two months.

[Anonymous]

Another one I hate is when the parents push us to do "cutsie" crafts that the kids don't even care about, and then I find it in the trash....

[Anonymous]

I've been in a similar situation and it really sucks! You can either talk to the parents about the situation and say something like, "I know you are really busy, but..." or set up a system with the kids where they must put away a toy before they get another one out and make them clean up the play area in the morning (with your help) if they trashed it that night. Try to make it a game. If that doesn't work then, sorry! I think getting the parents on board is the key.

[Anonymous]

Well, is this an explicit and agreed upon part of your job and what they're paying you to do? Then I'm not sure it's taking advantage of you. Kids will trash a house, families create messes. If they are paying you to do these tasks then that's the answer. I pay people to clean my house periodically so I don't have to. I pay a nanny whose job includes doing the kid's laundry and preparing meals for them during the day, so I don't have to.

Sometimes I clean (obviously) and often I do laundry, but the bulk of the time I pay people to handle those tasks and if that's the job you accepted then that's the job you should do.

If it isn't the job you agreed to then a conversation is in order.