Friday, August 03, 2007
My regular cleaning lady, whom I like a lot, is on hiatus. I'm not even sure if she'll be returning. Therefore, I am on the hunt for more help. Yesterday, I got phone calls from three different friends asking me if I needed cleaning help! I gratefully arranged for someone to come today. We all want cleaning help before shabbos, so to find a cleaning lady with time on Fridays is a real blessing.
This lady only spoke Spanish, but that's okay with me - I took three years of Spanish in school. Though I am by no means fluent, I've never had problems communicating with cleaning ladies. I speak "cleaning lady Spanish."
Oh my lord, this lady did so many things wrong. I caught her cleaning my kids' tub with the broom. HELLO? That's gross. But what the hell, I took anthropology in college. I understand the concept of cultural relativity. Maybe in her country that's what they do. So I politely asked her - in Spanish - to use a sponge. She complied. I asked her - in Spanish - to spray the garbage can. She didn't. Zalman took the bag out of the can, and I noticed. So I asked her again to spray it, and she didn't.
When she went to clean my bathroom, I asked her before she even started to use the sponge in the shower. I found a broom bristle in there. She put one of my husband's blankets on sideways. Okay, maybe she didn't realize which direction it went, and that's fine. But the quilt was put on totally upside down. There's no way to miss that - one side has patches and the other is just plain material with the quilt knots. The pillows on my bed were just thrown on haphazardly. It's not such a big deal, but with all the other things that happened, it just proved to me that she didn't care about her work.
She mopped the floor in the playroom while there was still things on it, which totally didn't impress me. She kept trying to chat with me. Zalman had knocked the books off the bookshelf and she put them back all a mess, some standing up, some laying down, some completely the wrong way...
She also kept disappearing into the bathroom. She started late and ended early. She asked me several times if I wanted her to do anything else, but I was so annoyed with her that I just wanted her out.
She asked about coming back next week, and I thanked her but declined. She asked me if there was anything wrong with her work. I smiled politely and told her everything was fine. (Lady, I don't speak enough Spanish to tell you all the things you did to piss me off.)
p.s. She smelled, too.
Love, Maven @ 
6 Comments:
At 5:04 PM,
Ayelet Survivor said…
Wow. Was she ever the wrong cleaning lady for you... better luck next time.
At 5:22 PM,
torontopearl said…
maven, did you take two hours to clean and prepare for the cleaning lady...as i've been known to do, as have friends of mine?
finding an ideal cleaning lady is a job and a half. sometimes we're the best ones for the job...but who's got the time?!
At 5:45 PM,
Anonymous said…
my basic (two cent) rule of thumb is: never expect them to get it right the first few times- and TRAIN them to do what you need. Otherwise the whole shtick of having some (OTHER!!!) woman in to clean my house just feels violating and TOTALLLLYYYYY AAAANNNNOOOOOYYIIINNNNGGGGGGG!!!
At 12:53 AM,
Maven said…
you know, i always clean for/with the cleaning lady, i never have them in my kitchen, i don't expect too much. i've never had a cleaning lady and told her not to come back. i'm generally patient and understanding. i understand what you're saying, to give someone a few chances, teach them, etc, but i can't teach her how to have a brain. i can't teach her to give a damn about her work. and if she's not willing to listen to me on the very first day, do you think it will get better subsequently? also, i'd like to add, i always treat my cleaning ladies respectfully. some people don't. it was a really big thing for me to tell her i didn't want to use her again, especially since i need the help so desperately. but i'm not paying a woman 10 bucks an hour to clean my shower with a broom or just be careless.
At 12:30 PM,
Anonymous said…
I speak "cleaning lady Spanish."
May ask you what does that mean?
Every Spanish Culture has a different dialect in Spanish as so do we in Hebrew. Some speak Yiddish, Sephardic etc...
But each Spanish Culture speaks differently so there is a possibility that she didn't understand your cleaning lady spanish.
3 years of Spanish does not make you able to speak cleaning lady spanish.
I am quite offended by your post and hope that in the future you can be more careful with your words. It is Loshon Hora to speak so unkindly about another human being.
Kindness needs no language. Whether in speech or in deed.
"Por Favor de no hablar malo de otra gente. Porque usted no es perfecta y si no entiendes esto no te sientes estupida porque no todo el mundo sabes hablar o entender espanol de las mujeres de limpieza. Trata de tener mas compasion con gente que son diferente"
Maybe your "Cleaning lady spanish" can translate that without a book.
That is how she felt.
Was it really necessary for you to mention that she was Spanish?
Maybe you could just had said she was a terrible housekeeper
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