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

ManofLeisure_2

With this mindset, I'm surprised you didn't employ a cleaner who provides their 'own equipment' - many do.

ManofKentish

I would suggest paying yourself and deducting costs from the cleaners wages, it may even be tax deductable for you. Alternatively encourage your cleaner to liquidize some of their assets to cover costs e.g. sell a kidney...or one of their children.

If this really is serious you need to provide the tools for the job and show a little empathy to somebody who does work which you are not prepared to do for yourself. Put yourself in their shoes, how do they feel about this? Perhaps also try familiarising yourself with the machine so that you can understand how it came to break.

peachyprice

Jenwales wrote: »

If so then what a waste of our time putting this post on here and telling us to reply. Thought this was meant to be an honest website. I'm more disgusted if this is fake than if it's real. What a waste of my time, why did I bother

Surely this can't be the first 'MSE Dilemma' you've come across? They do it all the time, blantant fake scenarios that people [STRIKE]waste[/STRIKE] take their time replying to.

G6JPG

"it wasn't that old and seemed in good shape".

That's the bit of the question I saw - I didn't even register the "should the cleaner pay" bit. If I thought about that bit, I'd have said of course not - though the possibility of abuse hadn't occurred to me.

But my immediate reaction was, if it wasn't that old, then I'd be looking at sale of goods etc. - AND PAYING NO ATTENTION TO WHETHER THE "GUARANTEE" HAD RUN OUT OR NOT. If it was a really budget one, then just grin and replace it; otherwise, I'd be looking at whether a reasonable person would expect it to last the time it had for the price paid - and if not, I'd be back to where I bought it.

If you're sure the cleaner actually did break it, that's a different matter, and what the question was about I suppose. I just get cross when people accept "guarantees" - especially if only a year, as most are - as meaning "if it fails after that, tough". "Merchantable quality" ...

MrGarf

Why was the first reaction to buy a new vacuum cleaner. Surely it would be better to repair the existing one. Got to be much less expensive. Why have we become a natio of people who throw stuff away. REPAIR first,

Lizzyb79

I am unsure as to why your cleaner would purposely damage the vacuum cleaner when in fact they would be making their own life more difficult by not having one!? Accidents happen! If it is that much of an financial impact you could always do the cleaning yourself?!

gloriouslyhappy

MSE_Nick wrote: »

This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks...

Last week our cleaner broke our vacuum. It's hard to tell exactly how it happened, but it wasn't that old and seemed in good shape. Would it be wrong to ask her to pay for a new one, or should we all just chip in ourselves?

Don't you mean 'last week the vacuum broke while the cleaner was using it'?

JuliusCaesar

Utter nonsense.

kinger101

You should probably just sell one of her kidneys. Why do people fall for these phoney agony aunt MSE dilemma theads?

baxterjohn

The question is asked wrongly. It should say - 'last week the vacuum broke when our cleaner was using it'. Of course she shouldn't pay for a new one - it's up to you to provide the tools to enable her to do the job.