Money Moral Dilemma: Should we ask the cleaner to pay for a new vacuum?

Lorian

MSE_Nick wrote: »

. Would it be wrong to ask her to pay for a new one, or should we all just chip in ourselves?

Comes to something when you need to troll your own forum.

shornoff

You are !!!!!!!s of the first water.

Tealblue

Get a life.

gainsboroughgirl

Assuming this is not a made up by MSE one....

I assume it broke because she/he vacuumed over something large enough to have been spotted and picked up by the occupants. Cancel the gym membership and stretch....

Lionheadbunnies

What if it was caused by obvious carelessness, like it fell down the stairs?
It's an unfair statement to say you can afford a cleaner so just buy a new one
What if your not 'loaded' but have a cleaner to help you care for a loved one?
I know a cleaner and they are paid around £15 an hour...not a bad wage really, and a reputable company would have insurance.
Personally if it was obvious carelessness and repeated incident I would ask for a contribution or for them to use their insurance.
If you hired a car and smashed it up a wall you'd have to pay an excess....

isobel.rose

You guys need to stop judging anyone who has a cleaner as if they are selfish millionaires!

When I was a kid my father died. He'd been a house husband, who looked after the house and the kids, while my mother worked full time. We had never had a cleaner. When he died my Mum hired cleaners because she'd suddenly become a single mother, working full-time, and coping with the grief of losing her partner. She was fortunate enough to be able to afford a cleaner to make her life a little easier. You have no idea what the poster's circumstances are, so don't be so quick to judge.

missprice

Lionheadbunnies wrote: »

What if it was caused by obvious carelessness, like it fell down the stairs?
It's an unfair statement to say you can afford a cleaner so just buy a new one
What if your not 'loaded' but have a cleaner to help you care for a loved one?
I know a cleaner and they are paid around £15 an hour...not a bad wage really, and a reputable company would have insurance.
Personally if it was obvious carelessness and repeated incident I would ask for a contribution or for them to use their insurance.
If you hired a car and smashed it up a wall you'd have to pay an excess....

Its not obviously careless if a hoover falls down stairs, it means the hoover wasn't suitable for cleaning stairs or an accident happened.
New hoovers can be bought for £50, so you don't needed to be loaded
Few cleaners are paid £15 ph. If its a cash job its usually a tenner or less, if its working for a company its min wage but the user pays the company £15 or more per hour.

For OP although I don't believe its real, just buy another hoover, make it suitable for a cleaner and never mention it again.

kazwookie

How did the vacuum break, what is actually wrong with it?

Once this info is available, then it can either be mended or a new one bought.

britbird

This is an interesting one, as recently we have had a situation whereby our exceedingly reliable cleaner ruined a carpet and an iron. We never did get to the bottom of how- she said it "fell" but there is carpet welded to the iron, and 4 burn marks on the carpet in different places. We didn't make her pay for the iron, but did ask for a contribution towards the carpet. As it turns out, her husband has a trade account and her cousin is a carpet fitter so she is doing the whole lot. Personally I would find out exactly what happened, and consider asking the cleaner for a contribution after explaining that it was a newish appliance. Equally I would look at what was covered under the warranty, as if it really is that new then it shouldn't break easily.

akbrooker

How dare you even think of charging the cleaner. She (I assume it's she) probably gets the minimum wage from you. If the vacuum cleaner failed when one of you was using it, would you presume it was that person's fault?

Just for once, there is a moral dimension to the issue.