OHbaby! Forums : I found out what... https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:46:07 +0000 Fri, 11 May 2007 19:54:46 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.05 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=7449 <![CDATA[OHbaby! Forums]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ <![CDATA[I found out what... : Oh my gosh I say that is awful...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=144088&title=i-found-out-what#144088 Author: 11111
Subject: 7449
Posted: 11 May 2007 at 7:54pm

Oh my gosh I say that is awful she is not even trying that sux it;s hard enough letting someone help in your space let alone some htat is sucky at it.  I say tell her boss this coming monday that you no longer want this woman in your house.]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 19:54:46 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=144088&title=i-found-out-what#144088 <![CDATA[I found out what... : Have any of you seen the movie...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=144047&title=i-found-out-what#144047 Author: my4beauties
Subject: 7449
Posted: 11 May 2007 at 6:22pm

Have any of you seen the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness"? One point I got from that - actually it was from reading the book after I saw the movie - was WHATEVER job you're doing, whether its cleaning toilets, serving people or wiping old peoples bums - DO IT WELL!!

I would be embarressed to be a "home help" & leave a cupboard/drawer in that state! Knowing the people you're supposed to be cleaning for can see your work, or lack off. Sounds like she's a very lazy cleaner.

I have a cleaner once a week & she can be a bit lazy too, it gets on my nerves, but I sort of know her on a personal level too so feel I can't tell her to PLEASE do a better job!]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 18:22:44 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=144047&title=i-found-out-what#144047 <![CDATA[I found out what... : man that would drive me mental. my...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=144026&title=i-found-out-what#144026 Author: MyMinis
Subject: 7449
Posted: 11 May 2007 at 5:23pm

man that would drive me mental.
my cupboards and cutlery drawer have to be organised, although DF has a shocking habit (and when we ahd a flatmate he was jsut as bad) of putting things where they dont belong and they wonder why i got grumpy
I have done cleaning for a living and there is no way I would ever just dump things esp not if Im paid to do it, In Queenstown they dont pay some professional cleaners very well either unless you get a good boss like I know some people that are lucky if they get $10hr, and it aint cheap living there either, I was lucky my boss was great and paid me well.
I couldnt handle having someone clean my house would drive me nuts.]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 17:23:30 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=144026&title=i-found-out-what#144026 <![CDATA[I found out what... : All our folded washing (the kids&#039;...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=144014&title=i-found-out-what#144014 Author: busymum
Subject: 7449
Posted: 11 May 2007 at 4:49pm

All our folded washing (the kids' clothes and sheets and towels) goes away like that too. Open drawer; dump. Open cupboard; dump. While she was off sick last week I went through and tidied them all, now there's no excuse. Has already been "dumped" again this week, so that's it for me. I'm putting the washing away myself from now on.

I agree Piper - if you're paid to do a job, do it well! Especially if you still want your job in a couple of months lol. My DH has just finished a year working as a postie for the same hourly rate (and then it went up 60c/hr or something) but that didn't stop him doing a good job.

I've decided what I'm going to do. My current "term" of help expires on Monday 21st and Lorna knows that. But they will be reviewing me at that point one more time and I'm going to call Lorna's boss (who I know personally) and get the girl who covered last week when Lorna was off sick. She can do the final two weeks or something. I'm supposed to be putting my feet up, not teaching a 50yo how to keep house! I like her, but I don't like her doing my housework.]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 16:49:47 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=144014&title=i-found-out-what#144014 <![CDATA[I found out what... : That isnt putting the cutlery...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143996&title=i-found-out-what#143996 Author: peanut butter
Subject: 7449
Posted: 11 May 2007 at 4:09pm

That isnt putting the cutlery away thats opening a drawer and dumping it in. i'm not the tidiest of people but cutlery isnt hard to get right.....and when you are a)doing it for someone else or b) getting paid you'd think you'd get it right.

As for the arguement about home help getting paid stuff all....no one has forced her to do that job!

i'm with you on this busymum. It would annoy me and I think my standards are low]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 16:09:27 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143996&title=i-found-out-what#143996 <![CDATA[I found out what... : I thinkI would go spare if my...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143988&title=i-found-out-what#143988 Author: Guests
Subject: 7449
Posted: 11 May 2007 at 3:50pm

I think I would go spare if my drawer looked like that! Something my DP would do...he still can't blame the boy.

 

]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 15:50:45 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143988&title=i-found-out-what#143988 <![CDATA[I found out what... : Ohhh she puts cutlery away like...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143922&title=i-found-out-what#143922 Author: Kels
Subject: 7449
Posted: 11 May 2007 at 1:45pm

Ohhh she puts cutlery away like my kids do. But shes an adult you would think she would know best]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 13:45:16 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143922&title=i-found-out-what#143922 <![CDATA[I found out what... : The companies tend not to care,...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143898&title=i-found-out-what#143898 Author: emeldee
Subject: 7449
Posted: 11 May 2007 at 1:19pm

The companies tend not to care, they'll take anyone they can get and because they're paying them stuff all, they're happy if people just turn up. Commercial cleaners get paid more than caregivers.
The woman that still comes to do housework for mum (ACC funded) is in her late 50s and this is her main source of income (she's single with no family in Auckland). Pre-tax, she needs to do 42 hours a week to be able to earn $26K a year...she's taking home $405 after tax a week for over 40 hours of reasonably manual work and living in Auckland where we all know what rents look like. I pray that when I'm in my late 50s things are a lot easier for me.
]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 13:19:02 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143898&title=i-found-out-what#143898 <![CDATA[I found out what... : She&#039;s turning 50 this year...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143894&title=i-found-out-what#143894 Author: busymum
Subject: 7449
Posted: 11 May 2007 at 1:09pm

She's turning 50 this year and yea, gets paid about $12 an hour. I suspect she's not much of a homemaker at her place either, but is just in it to earn a living. I wish her employers would do some standard training though: how to load a dishwasher, use an insinkerator, all that stuff. It puts really bad rep on the company.]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 13:09:39 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143894&title=i-found-out-what#143894 <![CDATA[I found out what... : Did you read in the herald over...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143885&title=i-found-out-what#143885 Author: emeldee
Subject: 7449
Posted: 11 May 2007 at 12:57pm

Did you read in the herald over the past few days about the complaints around home help availability nationwide and about the disabled lady that was left alone for FIVE DAYS even though she couldn't cook/clean for herself?
In defense of the home help people, they get paid STUFF ALL - you get more money working as a cleaner or in a call centre, very little training and even less support. I know that one of the women that helped my mum out after her broken leg gets paid $12/hour, no extra money for travelling to different jobs and has to help out with bathing a number of elderly people (heavy lifting). For $12/hour!!!! I don't think that anyone coming into your home is ever going to do as well as you could, especially if you are pissed off about being injured and needing the help in the first place. At least she is there to help, even if it is below your own high standard? ]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 12:57:58 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143885&title=i-found-out-what#143885 <![CDATA[I found out what... : That looks like my draw- after...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143881&title=i-found-out-what#143881 Author: Glow
Subject: 7449
Posted: 11 May 2007 at 12:49pm

That looks like my draw- after my son has helped put the dishes away......
I don't mind rearranging after a 2yr old. Hey this lady is how old??
Yea that would piss me off too.
]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 12:49:42 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143881&title=i-found-out-what#143881 <![CDATA[I found out what... : oh god that would drive me nuts!!!!...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143877&title=i-found-out-what#143877 Author: BaAsKa
Subject: 7449
Posted: 11 May 2007 at 12:43pm

oh god that would drive me nuts!!!! that draw she did is appalling!! ]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 12:43:41 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143877&title=i-found-out-what#143877 <![CDATA[I found out what... : Teresa i can understand why that...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143863&title=i-found-out-what#143863 Author: mum2three
Subject: 7449
Posted: 11 May 2007 at 12:25pm

Teresa i can understand why that would bug you surley its not that hard to but things away neatly! I bet she would if it was her own home]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 12:25:54 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143863&title=i-found-out-what#143863 <![CDATA[I found out what... : ...bugs me so much about my home...]]> https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7449&PID=143859&title=i-found-out-what#143859 Author: busymum
Subject: 7449
Posted: 11 May 2007 at 12:21pm

...bugs me so much about my home help lady. She's really good with the kids, but now that her hours have been reduced to housework only, she's getting on my nerves again! And this is what it is: I have several systems in my home which are pretty basic but necessary in a two-storey home with three little kids. Things like the bucket in the upstairs bathroom is for washing and when you do the laundry, you take the bucket downstairs to supplement the washing load.... got it? My home help lady gets that part but does she think to return the bucket to the bathroom when it has been emptied? Noooooo.

Here's another thing that got on my nerves today. I don't want to have to say, please keep the cutlery drawer tidy and organised when you unload the dishwasher. I mean surely! I really don't think I'm all that picky but this one got my nerve this morning.

Her way: My way:

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