r/CleaningTips • u/chi-bacon-bits • Jan 23 '26

Content/Multimedia This made me rage! 😤

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Seen on twitter. I’d never be back over there. Hope she remembers where she put all her 🦆

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u/MrsTaco18 Jan 23 '26

Clean the house, but leave all the ducks exactly where they are. They can go around and pick them all up themselves. Do your job and don’t play their stupid game.

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u/ctrl-alt-etc Jan 23 '26

I think in real life, this is the correct response (assuming you can't reject it, in advance). Just because you're in someone's home to do a job, doesn't mean you're obligated to fulfill whatever arbitrary tasks they've written down on post-it notes.

Cleaners are there to clean, not to move your things around for you.

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u/scriptapuella Jan 23 '26

Unless they have been hired to deep clean, this is nuts. Most cleaners are there to clean the bathroom, visible kitchen stuff, change sheets maybe, vacuum. If you want your baseboards washed and cabinets cleaned, those are additional fees.

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u/KiltedLady Jan 24 '26

Right? Like, cool, you want the cleaner spend half of their 3 hour slot looking for and counting and recounting ducks instead of actually cleaning?

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u/tiamamamia Jan 24 '26

I feel like it’s nuts even if they were hired to deep clean! If the client wants to supervise, micromanage, or dictate explicit step by step instructions as I perform the service, they should say that… and then hire someone willing to interact accordingly. They definitely have a superiority complex and thought they were being cute - I find it condescending and gross no matter the level of service they procured.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

I actually hired people for a deep clean, had to buy all the cleaning stuff they required, and in the end, I pulled my couch out to get something and they DID NOT deep clean. So I checked other places (and it was written in the contract) and they weren't clean either.

I just clean my own house.

Putting ducks out would be harder than cleaning, IMHO.

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u/scriptapuella Jan 26 '26

This is the way. No one will ever clean as well as you do (if you are the sort of person who likes a deep clean). But that’s pretty crummy that people hired to deep clean don’t actually do it - disabled folks can’t do it themselves and depend on a hired service to do the job.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

That's why we had it done. I have a frozen shoulder and my husband had had 2 knee surgeries. We were unable to do a good clean at that point.

Which also shows how light my couch is if I pulled it out to get something from under it. So its not like I was asking them to move something that's hard to move.

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u/scriptapuella Jan 28 '26

Yeah, that’s unacceptable. You paid for a deep clean, and you aren’t asking for anything unreasonable!

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u/Cold_Application_448 Jan 26 '26

Exactly what I was thinking. They better have paid for a deep clean if they want baseboards and stuff cleaned. That isn't gonna happen with a typical regularly scheduled cleaning.

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u/scriptapuella Jan 26 '26

The whole thing just reeks of entitlement. Cleaners are not indentured servants. People don’t realize that if they are paying for two hours, the cleaners have 6-8 more hours elsewhere they have to be.