I am happy I got a job away from the food industry. It is a house cleaning job and they pay really well. I did my first house today, it was a 3400 square foot house. When he sent the email he said the job would take 5 hours, then he called me today and said it got cut back to 4 hours. Well, I go to the house and the lady is really nice at first. She takes me around and the house was pretty dirty, dirtier than I would expect from a house like that and to be cleaned in just 4 hours.
The list was to clean the baseboards, she had all hardwood floors downstairs so I had to mop all of them, clean all the bathrooms (2.5 bathrooms) change the bed linens in her 2 kids rooms, vacuum all the rugs (she had a lot), vacuum the whole upstairs, clean the kitchen (microwave and all) empty all the trash cans and take the trash out, dust everything (there was a whole shitload of things to dust) and remove all of the cobwebs.
Well, 4 rolled around and I had her daughters really messy bathroom cleaned, the half bath cleaned, both of her kids rooms cleaned, all 3400 square feet of baseboards cleaned, cobwebs removed and everything dusted. She came up to me and asked if I was going to be able to vacuum the upstairs, mop the downstairs and clean her really big master bathroom. I was like shit, so I vacuumed the upstairs (she also had 2 carpeted staircases) and mopped downstairs. 5 then came and she seemed upset that I couldn't get to her bathroom. I am sorry but that is a lot of work to finish in 4 hours. Now I am scared she is going to call the company and say something bad about me because she didn't seem happy. I don't want them to fire me after my first cleaning. I don't think I am in the wrong, she shouldn't have changed it to 4 hours.
I have a question. Do y'all think it is customary to tip a cleaner, would you tip them if you hired one? It says on the paper they gave me that I can accept tips, just not to solicit them. Maybe she would have tipped me if she wasn't upset.



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