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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Au Pair is super messy and dirty. We have a cleaning service that comes every two weeks, I explained the cleaning service will clean her room but that she would need to tidy it up. She never does so they don't clean her room. When she was on vacation, I told that I would need to clean her room because I don't like the house (i.e., her room being dirty). I thought it was more of a courtesy to let her know I'll be in the her room. I don't usually enter her room. While cleaning her room, I filled two trash bags full of trash. I also found a bunch of dirty glasses that had been used but never brought back to the kitchen or dishwasher, there was old boxes from stuff she had ordered, candy wrapper under the bed, etc. I tied it up and threw out anything that was trash. If I wasn't sure if something was trashed, I piled in a box. The room got cleaned. Now that the weather is warmer, I asked her to please clean out the car she uses. This is an old car we have that she uses to drive the kids around but also for personal use on the weekends, when the kids are in school, etc. Her idea of cleaning out the car was to take her stuff out of the car (shopping bags, empty fast food bags). She didn't vacuum or wipe the dashboard, and she did not clean out any of the kids stuff in the back. I usually clean up after my children but because she uses this car more for personal reasons than to drive my children around since they are in school, take the bus to and from school, and only do one activity each after school, I would expect she'd have the courtesy of cleaning out  the car every once in awhile.

I give her money for gas every week. However, whenever I use the car (most of the time, it's to move the car to a different parking spot so I can pull out of the driveway in the morning), the car is often very close to empty. I explained that it's not good for the engine to drive the car on empty and that I'm worried she'll break out on the road because she runs the risk of running out of gas. That I would appreciate it if she would gets gas with the gas money I give her and keep the tank at least 1/2 full.

For those who have had this problem, how do you deal with this issue?  Do I just  let it go since there's 7 months left?[/quote]

Inside our AuPairs bathroom door and bedroom door is a laminated checklist and a expo marker velcro'd to it. I'm very clear that the list must be complete by every Monday night because the house cleaners come on Tuesdays. I absolutely WILL NOT have a filthy room in my house. For the first few weeks, I physically spot check her room and bathroom.  I'm not a timid HM, so I have zero problems hovering while an AuPair cleans her space. However, they know my deal and fall in line, it has never come to that.

We offer a very good package and the AuPairs know it and don't want to risk losing a good thing.  WE also match with Germans, and I've found them pretty clean and orderly, or maybe I'm just lucky.[/quote]

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