Don’t give in to job creep
Hey everyone. I’m new to professional house keeping and recently got hired by this couple three days a week for 4hours each day . On the first two day, I basically did a deep cleaning of the home because it was in pretty bad shape. I let them know the repairs and maintenance issues. After that, I’ve just been doing the basics and am organizing deep cleaning project here and there so I’m not deep cleaning the whole house in one go. For the first few weeks things went really smoothly. When I came in, dishes were contained to the kitchen, laundry in and/or around the laundry bins. The general mess was contained. But recently there has been a shift. For the last week or so, I’ve been finding dishes all over the apartment and the kitchen has been such a mess. They cook and leave everything there for me to sort and clean like left over food and condiments, spices etc. They aren’t even bothering to take the dishes to the kitchen. And laundry is now all over the apartment. It takes me 30-45 minutes extra minutes to consolidate the mess before I can clean the home since they expect the dishes and laundry to be washed dried folded and put away before I leave. I’ve been rushing to get everything done in a timely manner because the last time I stayed 30 minutes later than the scheduled time and I was told “extra time is not in the budget”. But they often add on requests. They started off small but have now become unmanageable.