Urgent! Recommend Me A Cleaner.
- Thread starter Thimble Queen
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Bahnhof Strasse
Let's av ya fuckin' dancin'!
fogbat
The Talibum
Bahnhof Strasse
Let's av ya fuckin' dancin'!
Mate's rates for you
Thought it was normally 20 quid an inch.
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
do you know that for a fact?Yeah but you only have to travel to one location, and sit at a desk all day do odd bits of work between posting on urban
I used to be a cleaner too, never got anywhere near a tenner an hour though, I've been swizzed!
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
yes she starts next week....
We tidyed the house up last night in preperation
We tidyed the house up last night in preperation
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
do you know that for a fact?
I used to be a cleaner too, never got anywhere near a tenner an hour though, I've been swizzed!
me too!
The most I got was £6 an hour, which back in the early 90s wasn't so bad.
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
Brilliant! I'll spend my free time when im not working 40 hours per week plus travel time cleaning up after four messy boys
George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
Brilliant! I'll spend my free time when im not working 40 hours per week plus travel time cleaning up after four messy boys
You don't have the time to do your own cleaning because you spend 40 hours per week doing a job that is less well paid than that of the person you're employing to do your cleaning for you because you spend all your time working...
a ruthless capitalist you may yet fail to make
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
You don't have the time to do your own cleaning because you spend 40 hours per week doing a job that is less well paid than the person your paying to do your cleaning for you because you spend all your time working...
a ruthless capitalist you may yet fail to make
I doubt her and the 4 boys together earn less than the prospective cleaner.
E2A: Oi! You edited.
George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
I doubt her and the 4 boys together earn less than the prospective cleaner.
E2A: Oi! You edited.
She said up there that she earns less per hour than she is planning to pay her cleaner...
And I assume the four boys are children...
George & Bill
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quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
No. they are full grown probably employed boys, none of whom she is related to afaik.
You quoted my edited post
It wasn't edited when I was looking at it but was when I clicke quote.
George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
Then why do they need to be cleaned up after?
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
I'm going to guess because the lazy fuckers resolutely refuse to bother their fucking arses.
Equality equals getting to bunce in with the men for cleaning services. Yay!
Exactly, 10 an hour might be decent pro rata, but it's shite when you consider that they probably only have a couple of jobs like that a day, and then there's the travel etc.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Often they only want to do a few hours a week though, to fit in with childcare etc, and work locally. I could get our cleaner lots of work if she wanted it, but she only wants three clients per week.
George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
Often they only want to do a few hours a week though, to fit in with childcare etc, and work locally. I could get our cleaner lots of work if she wanted it, but she only wants three clients per week.
But you should nonetheless expect to pay them more per hour than you would someone who you were employing for a full day - I think that's the point.
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
You assume wrongly.
They are adults.
I have no problem paying the cleaner a higher hourly rate than I get paid myself, as I vaule the work that she does.
I don't want to have a messy house, I don't want to be a nag.
So we have a cleaner. And I don't feel gulity about it not one bit
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Not necessarily. It's negotiable. The cleaner can look at their time/costs and set an hourly rate that takes that into account. I do not get paid for travel to work, and if I did I wouldn't get paid more if my job was part-time.
You assume wrongly.
They are adults.
I have no problem paying the cleaner a higher hourly rate than I get paid myself, as I vaule the work that she does.
I don't want to have a messy house, I don't want to be a nag.
So we have a cleaner. And I don't feel gulity about it not one bit
Go girl!
George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
You assume wrongly.
They are adults.
I have no problem paying the cleaner a higher hourly rate than I get paid myself, as I vaule the work that she does.
I don't want to have a messy house, I don't want to be a nag.
So we have a cleaner. And I don't feel gulity about it not one bit
I didn't suggest that you should feel guilty - I suggested that it was a little odd that you paid someone more than you get paid yourself rather than working fewer hours and doing your own cleaning
But then, you are living with other adults who behave like children, so perhaps normal suggestions don't apply.
George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
If the point that you're trying to make is that the amount you need to pay for a given service will be set by the market, then yes, well done, you're right.
This is not really the point of the discussion that we have been having, however
George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
She has said that she is prepared to pay more per hour than she gets herself. How much of it she personally contributes is immaterial - why doesn't she do the cleaning herself and collect the £10 p/h (minus one fifth) from her housemates? Why would she turn down work that she is in a position to give herself - if it's so attractive?
