Not actual VENTS~VENTS that only residential cleaners can understand.
The thoughts that you HAVE to keep in or you wouldn't be working.
Odd requests that we have to take in stride.
Strange complaints that you KNOW the customer has spent a LOT of time (but not much THOUGHT) trying to come up with.
1) I think my MAIN vent that I've gotten a lot of as I have been doing this for 19 years is the word JUST?
Could you JUST? Clean the added 16x16 foot mudroom like it's always been there?
Will you JUST? Let the dogs out/in whenever THEY want to go out/in and then put them in their crates by thumping your chest saying TREAT TREAT and give the treat to them after they have been shut in.
(I'm surprised they haven't yet asked we clean the poop up in the yard but one client I have, has paid help for that one and for the money they get, I'm thinking of adding it to my services.) :yes:
You can JUST...Do a quick one time cleaning on an extra room that hasn't been cleaned by ANY one.....EVER!
Who's definition of JUST is really JUST?
I think for the client, JUST is a synonym for "X-Tra~FREE~work."
For the cleaner, JUST means "X-Tra~STRESS~work" as I can't seem to find the price tag to cover the inconvenience as they come sparingly and by different clients.
(If someone out there DOES, PLEASE share with me!)
2) The take on HAIR/FOOD.
Quite the opposite of words but the same YUCK factor to me.
(If I HAD the choice, I'd actually pick hair and I suppose because I know what it IS(?) where food could be ANYthing.)
My WORST hair experience was when I used my foot to clear the shower drain of extra hair when I was finished.
This is OBviously something I always do but this particular shower drain had grown a full head of hair.
It just kept coming and coming and coming until it ACTUALLY lifted that round drain up and out came a soft ball sized hairball.
That's been a long time ago but brings me the same feelings today.
Now, if I see that same thing happening, I nip it in the bud with a razor blade and set it free.....or until the homeowner has to unclog their drain.
(I see nothing unethical about me doing that when the decency of flushing the toilet or picking up their inside out underwear or wrapping of personal disposables have been left to me or my employee to deal with. :whistling2:
And I don't know what it is about me and food in a kitchen drain but it totally takes on a life of it's own, in MY mind.
If all I had to do was empty the drain stoppers, that would be one thing but having to fish out (or push down) peas, carrots, and whatever I DON'T want to guess it's origin, just does NOT sit well with me.
Like dried on poop on the inside SIDES of a toilet bowl doesn't sit well with my partner....so, being the Owner, I "GET" to do that too.
PS~I LOVE MY JOB!!! I REALLY DO!!
I'm a perfectionist~I get paid well for it, meet super people and feel very privliged to receive the key/code of people's NUMBER ONE ASSET~normally the same day as the Guess-timate is made.
I take a lot of PRIDE in the TRUST I get from that.
Like everything we LOVE~there's always something not~so~loveable and I would LOVE to hear about other kindred cleaners VENTS.
:thumbup:
The thoughts that you HAVE to keep in or you wouldn't be working.
Odd requests that we have to take in stride.
Strange complaints that you KNOW the customer has spent a LOT of time (but not much THOUGHT) trying to come up with.
1) I think my MAIN vent that I've gotten a lot of as I have been doing this for 19 years is the word JUST?
Could you JUST? Clean the added 16x16 foot mudroom like it's always been there?
Will you JUST? Let the dogs out/in whenever THEY want to go out/in and then put them in their crates by thumping your chest saying TREAT TREAT and give the treat to them after they have been shut in.
(I'm surprised they haven't yet asked we clean the poop up in the yard but one client I have, has paid help for that one and for the money they get, I'm thinking of adding it to my services.) :yes:
You can JUST...Do a quick one time cleaning on an extra room that hasn't been cleaned by ANY one.....EVER!
Who's definition of JUST is really JUST?
I think for the client, JUST is a synonym for "X-Tra~FREE~work."
For the cleaner, JUST means "X-Tra~STRESS~work" as I can't seem to find the price tag to cover the inconvenience as they come sparingly and by different clients.
(If someone out there DOES, PLEASE share with me!)
2) The take on HAIR/FOOD.
Quite the opposite of words but the same YUCK factor to me.
(If I HAD the choice, I'd actually pick hair and I suppose because I know what it IS(?) where food could be ANYthing.)
My WORST hair experience was when I used my foot to clear the shower drain of extra hair when I was finished.
This is OBviously something I always do but this particular shower drain had grown a full head of hair.
It just kept coming and coming and coming until it ACTUALLY lifted that round drain up and out came a soft ball sized hairball.
That's been a long time ago but brings me the same feelings today.
Now, if I see that same thing happening, I nip it in the bud with a razor blade and set it free.....or until the homeowner has to unclog their drain.
(I see nothing unethical about me doing that when the decency of flushing the toilet or picking up their inside out underwear or wrapping of personal disposables have been left to me or my employee to deal with. :whistling2:
And I don't know what it is about me and food in a kitchen drain but it totally takes on a life of it's own, in MY mind.
If all I had to do was empty the drain stoppers, that would be one thing but having to fish out (or push down) peas, carrots, and whatever I DON'T want to guess it's origin, just does NOT sit well with me.
Like dried on poop on the inside SIDES of a toilet bowl doesn't sit well with my partner....so, being the Owner, I "GET" to do that too.
PS~I LOVE MY JOB!!! I REALLY DO!!
I'm a perfectionist~I get paid well for it, meet super people and feel very privliged to receive the key/code of people's NUMBER ONE ASSET~normally the same day as the Guess-timate is made.
I take a lot of PRIDE in the TRUST I get from that.
Like everything we LOVE~there's always something not~so~loveable and I would LOVE to hear about other kindred cleaners VENTS.
:thumbup:
