People are pigs.

I hate my job. I'm a maid. I clean people's homes for a living.
I swear, some of these folks are the most disgusting, filthy pigs I'd ever have the displeasure of cleaning up after.
The house I cleaned today had more hair on the bathroom floor than is actually on the heads of its occupants.
The man who lives there is bald, and his wife's hair is shorter than Janet Reno's. My hair is about two inches shy of waist length, and I swear these folks had more hair on their bathroom floor than I do.
Single men are the most fun to clean up after.
They evidently all believe that the inside of a toilet bowl is supposed to be brown, and its rim is supposed to have those yellow spots.
A lot of the people I clean for are total packrats.
I mean, it's like they sit at home all day long just ordering trinkets off QVC.
If I had a dime for every home that was cluttered up with ten thousand pieces of work out equipment covered in coats, purses, and stacks of computer paper, I'd be a freaking millionaire today. Just shoot me.

 

I know where your coming from, Try being the only lassie in a housefull of men who think that everything that has to do with cleaning is MY job...and I dont get paid for it !!

 

i'm not all about being wicked clean. i like my organized mess. its not dirty or anything, but to the naked eye, its pretty messy.

thats not to say i can't make it spotless, because i can and do so on occasion when things get too out of hand. and when i say spotless, i mean a drill sgt. can come in and inspect and not find anything wrong, can check for dust with a white glove and not find any. but thats just too clean for me.

but yea, i see lots of people who can't even bother bringing dirty dishes to the kitchen when done. i mean, they'll leave it there and wait for someone else to clean it up.

 

I hate messy houses. Clutter in particular really pisses me off. One of the hard parts about having a 1 year old. I spend his nap time cleaning. A small mess here and there doesn't bother me, but some houses that I have been in, I don't even have the words to describe them.

 

Alot of poeple who pay for services tend to expect more. So if they have a house cleaner their thoughts are "well its the house keeppers job" People who get there car detailed the same thoughts ect. Kids with janitors, security guards and home owners or an association ect.


Its bull shit but some are just plain rude to "hired help"

 

Oh my goodness, I totally feel for you. Back when I was 19, I was a maid. Not for very long, I must say. Two weeks tops? I couldn't take it.

 

This one family I used to clean for were pretty lazy.
I'd go there and the dishes in their sink would literally be piled up so high they almost touched the bottom of the cabinets above.
There would be food dried on there from days of sitting there, and their counter tops would be covered in great big Pyrex bowls with stuff caked on.The dishwasher would be crammed full and nobody bothered to even turn it on. I'd have to put detergent inside and menuever the dishes so the door would stay closed and turn it on.
Then, I'd hand wash probably 25 more misc. dishes, cups, silverware from the sink, then I'd hand wash the ones covering the counter tops.
Then, I'd have to wait forever and a day for the dishes in the dishwasher to rinse and dry before putting those away.
These people had about four garbage cans throughout the rooms of their house, but each one would be so packed with stuff, there would be junk piled all in the floor around the can.
I'd turn a can upside down to empty it, and the stuff would be jammed in there so tight, I'd have to slam the rim of it on the top of their outside can to get everything to come out. They'd have empty Lever 2000 soap boxes in the floor around the can, about six empty toilet paper rolls,tampon papers,dental floss,used desposable razors,hair color boxes, empty deodorant tubes and hairspray cans,I mean,damn.
Some people take advantage of you. These folks would leave this shit there for like two or three weeks knowing they planned to have me come by and clean.

 

or would you rather be a pig?
A pig is an animal with dirt on his face
his shoes are a terrible disgrace
He has no manners when he eats his food
He's fat and lazy and extremely rude
But if you don't care a feather or a fig
you may grow up to be a pig

 

Um your really bored, have a good memory or quick with poetry?

 

I know how you feel, I live in a house with people who drive me incredibly insane when it comes to making a mess or not cleaning up afer themselves. They can make food or whatever, create a disaster of pots and pans, with food littered all over and leave it out for days at a time until someone else... namely me, comes around and cleans it up when I can't take it anymore. Thats not to mention dirty clothes, trash and all other sorts of rubbish that in my opinion should be handled as soon as its made. Granted I am not one to be super clean and such, but c'mon quit being a lazy S.O.B. and get off you ass and do some work. Argh! I need to meditate now... :/

 

part memory, part boredom.

 

skidrowgirl, you would hate me. i am a total slob. i'll clean the house every few months or i'll hire someone to do it. as yanknburn, pointed out that is the attitude of people who hire a housekeeper. if i am paying you to clean, it is your job. yes, i am a pack rat as well. you have embarked on this job therefore, that: "people are pigs" should not be a surprise to you.

there are other ways to earn a living. if this is not you cup of tea, seek out other employment.

 

of course, that's the whole reason they hire YOU!! lol. i'd rather clean up vomit than hair. i've got this thing about hair....but your post made me feel bad. i'm so far behind my housework, it's horrible

 

Yes, but the idea is not to see how much sweat you can possibly make a person release for what little money you give them.
Now, today, I got paid ok for it.
You're right, that does seem to be the attitude of the people I clean for. It's like they believe I owe them the majority of my life cleaning just because they refused to.
They don't bother to clean for probably a year, then they call me in to come and remove grime that's been sitting there so long it take the jaws of life to remove it.
Would you suggest that a person take their completely totaled vehicle on a wrecker to someone whose job it is only to fix brake pads, change oil, or put in new spark plugs?
This is all I'm saying. It's fine if they have messes, we all do, but some of these folks would be better off to just burn their house to the ground and start over. The bacteria living in these homes is enough to kill the whole family over time.
I'm talking dishes that sit in the sink until they are covered in mold, toilets that are thickly corroded with dried feces,maggots down in bags of food sitting there practically stuck to the carpet.
I'm sorry, but if this is the way you live, you won't be living for much longer.
I suspect you couldn't be as bad as the folks I've cleaned for.
Trust me, they are bad.

 

i've cleaned houses for money before. it's way easier to clean other people's houses than your own. why is that?

 

What about personal hygene. This woman behind me in line at the store had the worst breath on earth. I threw money at the cashier just to get the hell outta there. Forget the change. Jebus! Brush your frickin tongue once in a while, lady.

 

you'd die if you had to come clean my house. It hasn't been cleaned since I moved in almost a year ago. thats not a record cuz the last place I lived in didn't get cleaned for almost 5. and I NEVER throw anything away. But I'm happy.

 

At the bank where i work, we will see house appraisal photographs showing interiors featuring various pig lifestyles.


Some underwriters are discriminatory and loan applications are scruitinized heavilly if shown to be piggy.:X

Cant' belive that they dont clean before the bank appraiser gets there with his camera. its not a secret that he's visiting, they made an appointment.

 

Well, I just hope I didn't make anyone here feel insulted.
I'm not talking about normal messes. I'm talking about the kind of messes that make you wonder if a tornado went through their home and just dropped the rest of the neighborhood right down into their living room. My grandmother was in the tornado of 1996, I think it was...April 8th. Houses that resemble those don't need a housekeeper, they need a bulldozer.LOL.

 

i'm considering a fire.