annieology

I used the Google again.  Wanted to see if there was something out there I might be missing when hiring a housekeeper.  Know what I found out?  Apparently, according to the Google, is that you should “clean before they arrive” one lady suggests about 2 hours of “tidying” so as to make the housekeepers job easier.

All at once….

WE THROW FRISBEES?

Why the hell would I hire a housekeeper if I was going to spend 2 hours cleaning up for her?  I can see doing some things, like 15 loads of laundry for her to fold and put away (which I hate, the folding and the putting away), but they seriously suggest that I clean for a housekeeper. Hell, next I’m going to hire a chef and do all the cooking.

You want to know  how I’m hiring my housekeeper?   Have potential housekeepers come over.  Those who aren’t scared away immediately can stay and make lots of money doing ALL the cleaning that I need done for the day.  If there are dishes to be done, she’ll do them, laundry, same. There will be sweeping and mopping done by the housekeeper.  If something needs to be picked up, I expect her to pick it up and put it away.  Don’t give me this internet crap that if I hire someone to mop then I must first sweep.  NO.  Not buying it.

Now, I’m no tyrant.  I won’t be asking anything weird.  I’m talking sweeping, mopping, dusting, running the Hoover, I cannot for the life of me spell the V word.  You don’t have to go into Big Boy’s room, or Brasso the stripper pole, just the “normal” stuff that I can’t find time to do myself.  (just kidding about the stripper pole, as far as you know)

So, that’s my contribution to the Google today.  Polluting the valid information on hiring help.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 4:36 am and is filed under Kindle, annieology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.