A great reply! She would have flown out the door. When I told her my Assistant was coming at noon, she said she wasn't really comfortable with that. She was just weird in every respect. We are all weird in some way, but rarely every way.

What I really wanted to say was "no you don't" because I don't appreciate being lied to. I shouldn't have had to control what I said because it shouldn't have been said in the first place.

Thanks tor the chuckle though.

I sure have appreciated all the ideas and support, but I am not going to answer judgmental comments. It really isn't appropriate for someone who doesn't know my circumstances to second guess my judgment.

@LovinLarge It’s not a judgment, don’t get your knickers in a twist, it’s a question.

Pretty sure she is overestimating the strength of their relationship because she also spoke about a number of personal problems and for a supposed onmipotent being he is just not pulling his weight!

Excellent point, thank you. In the final analysis, I don't believe she could do the job so why prolong it.

On the upside, I just spoke with the agency. They said they will look for someone else right away. When they didn't respond specifically to my comment that one of the reasons the job didn't get done was because the housekeeper spent so much time talking about personal things like religion, I asked the lady directly for the company policy and she said the housekeepers were specifically instructed not to talk about such things. I feel somewhat better now.

A new housekeeper, definitely. How the agency responds will determine whether it's time to move on from there, too.

I suppose I can't say for certain that me shutting down religion as a topic of conversation wasn't related to the poor job she did but I'm prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt since I won't be dealing with her again.

The best housekeeper I've had was religious. She must have mentioned it in passing or I wouldn't have known but she never engaged me on the subject. She was very pleasant and I looked forward to her coming. She did an excellent job of cleaning my home.

I think I would just rather not know my housekeeper's position on religion and in my home, that should be my prerogative.

Now I'm kind of afraid!

Does she know you call her "my housekeeper" in public?

Can we get her take on this arrangement?

@AtheistInNC is this site "public" for you?

@1of5 sure, just ask her.

@Mofo1953 got contact info?

@1of5 like I would give her info to you. Dream on dude.

@Mofo1953 lol there's confidence for you!

@Mofo1953 If anyone can join, it's public.

And by the order and wording of your replies ... my guess is she is not a member here, and she wouldn't be happy reading your entry.

@1of5 totally.

@1of5, @AtheistInNC no shit, Sherlock!

Nice one, thank you!

That's all we need!

Thank you very much for your support. She had not even seen the interior of the house when she started up, we were still sitting in the kitchen with me trying to give verbal instructions and her rambling off every which way. I interrupted her repeatedly to bring her back to discussing the job.

I went back through the agency literature and there is nothing about religion there, in fact they promise "care and services from the agency without discrimination based upon personal, cultural or ethnic preference".

@LovinLarge That agency definitely needs a stronger training agenda!

@tinkercreek You said it! One of the things the housekeeper rattled on about was how much training she'd recently done. It will be interesting to see how well-trained their next prospect is.

Yes, she would have been welcome back if she'd done her job or even if I thought she could improve. The quality of the work was so poor that I don't even think she has the capacity to do the job. Here is a picture of a baking sheet that she took out of the dishwasher and put away in the cupboard.

@LovinLarge oh hell, I can do that shifty of a job for half the price, no problem.

Thank you, I'm going to call the agency in the morning. I will tell them what happened and remind them that I'm looking for professional not personal services. I'm pretty sure they will be on the same page but if not, they will get an earful. I'm so sick of religion repeatedly rearing its ugly head in my life just like any other bs.

@LovinLarge yeah trump has made the court irrelevant by putting that religious nutcase on. i am sick of these idiots thinking they know best for everyone

And in my own house, no less! Imagine going into a stranger's house to do a job and instead of doing the job, telling them about your atheism or agnosticism without invitation. I'm not sure how much tolerance I have left in reserve.

Yes, I think that scenario is entirely possible. I suppose it's normal to look for commonalities with someone you've just met, more in social situation but there's probably some carryover. That takes me back to what I call "the presumption of christianity" a phrase I coined when I first moved back here from Canada. Thankfully that presumption is becoming less and less safe, like it was in this case.

I have a compromised immune system. The cleaner my house is, the longer I will live and there is no one to deal with my shit when I am gone. She put dirty dishes away in my cupboards which may have contaminated the other dishes.

She is being paid a living wage. I do as much as I can between cleaning days but can no longer do the heavy cleaning. I just can't settle for substandard housework under these circumstances but I know your heart is in the right place.

@LovinLarge You are definitely right to expect things to be cleaned the way you want them.

Good point, thank you. Most housekeepers do the job in four hours. I would have accepted a reasonable effort but the at least part of the reason she didn't get the job done was because she talked too much. When I call her agency tomorrow morning, I am going to mention her religious reference as entirely inappropriate.