We have a really bad experience with the cleaner from Home Breeze.
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On the first day, Kelly did so many things that made us doubt if she is really trained. Examples
1) She wanted to mop the floor before she even changed the bedsheets or dusted the tables.
It is common sense to clean from up-to-bottom. No training is even needed to understand this.
2) She used the same piece of Magic Clean wipe that she has wiped the kitchen to wipe the living room.
Kitchen is supposedly the most oily place in the house. The correct way is to clean from the bedrooms, living room and finally the kitchen. Please tell me this is also a common sense thing.
3) Then she spent exactly 1.5hours to iron 11 pieces of clothes and of which more than 50% are not well-ironed.
My defination - at most we should only see one line on each sleeves of the shirt/jacket. But she managed to have numerous lines on each sleeves. "Well-done".
All the shirts' collars are flattened because she cleverly buttoned the second button instead of the first.
Hello Home Breeze! You call this trained team??
On the same day, we immediately feedback to Darren of Home Breeze.
Darren : You should teach Kelly and tells her how you want things to be done.
Me : You are supposed to provide a trained staff. There are some things which we merely have to apply common sense. I have provided orientation and if she still have doubts, she can just ask me or my mum.
Me : And I also need someone who can iron well.
Darren : I am surprised. We heard good feedback that she irons well.
Me : Then come and see it for yourself. By the way, who uses more than 8 minutes to iron one piece of clothing? She is supposed to be trained isn't it?
Darren : This may be teething problems. It is her first day.
Me : I can monitor her progress but please understand we hire external help to lessen my mum's burden. If I have to train YOUR staff for you. I might as well hire a maid now.
Let's just put it plainly. If I can do the housework, I will not need to go to a professional agency and pay S$188/- to him.
On her second time, I worked till very late and was too tired to check with my mum. But I do notice that she folded the tee shirts into tiny pieces hence easily causing the pile to topple. So this time I see her (personally), I told her this and she asked me to fold one for her. *Mega roll eye*
Me : I do not have to fold one for you now. As you can see, I have already redo the whole stack of folding.
Kelly : Then you must have space if you want your tees to be folded in a bigger size.
Me : Yes I do have space. (I really cannot be bothered to say anymore. Please use your brains. If we have been folding our clothes this way, it means we do have space. Or alternatively you can use your eyes and see it for yourself. And we did not fold it in big pieces, you are the one that folded the tees in tiny pieces)
Today is her third time and I was working from home in the afternoon. It was a hot and sunny afternoon. She appeared at 2.10PM, looking all hot and sweaty (she had cycled to our house). As soon as she set foot in the house, she immediately proceeded to change the bedsheets!! I am so disgusted. We all know what is personal hygiene. The first thing we reached home, we will proceed to wash our hands first. I requested her to wash her hands and she retorted, "IF YOU want me to..............." I saw her proceeded to wash her hands with water. No hand soap. I guess it is my fault? Because I did not tell her clearly enough that she has to wash her hands with hand soap as well. We keep a big bottle of Kirei Kirei foaming hand soap in each bathrooms.
We had hired extra help to clean the house but instead of that, we have invited more germs into the house. And of course, the list goes on.
