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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our au pair has been with us 6 weeks.  One of her duties is to empty the dishwasher in the mornings during the week so that the rest of the day it can be loaded with breakfast dishes, her lunch dishes, lunch boxes, and dinner dishes.  This has always worked out great...we have a tidy kitchen almost all the time (which I can't say the same for the rest of the house!!)  For some reason this au pair doesn't seem to understand...or is so lazy that she leaves multiple things on the countertops.  And I'm not talking some weird kitchen implement or a gravy boat.  She'll leave clean bowls, colanders, wine glasses, coffee cups, etc.  When I ask her she either says "I didn't know where that went" or "the cupboard was full".  The "I don't know where that went" makes ZERO sense after 6 weeks....our kitchen is organized in a pretty standard way.  Coffee cups go on the coffee cup shelf, etc.  The "cupboard is full" thing usually means that the tupperware/food storage things or pots and pans need to be stacked differently in order to make room.   So it might take an extra 3 minutes to put something away because you have to shift around other stuff in the cupboard. We have room for everything that we own in the kitchen!!  Has anyone else had this?  I nudge her about it every single day!  "Hey, can you please put away those clean glasses so I can use the counterspace to prep dinner"?  "Oh, I didn't know where they went".  Is she dim or is she lazy?[/quote]

She is lazy. My  husband used to do that shit (take things out and puts them on the kitchen counter). Who needs help removing items from the dishwasher? We need items removed from the dishwasher and putThankfully he puts items away now.

Tell her unloading the dishwasher included: removing items from the dishwasher and putting them away.

It you think that's bad I asked my AP to put the kids clothes in the washing machine. She puts the clothes in the washer and did not add detergent and press the start button. Clothes sat in there for 3 days until I noticed :)

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