Cleaning ladies cleaning the floors on their hands and knees

Senior Member Joined: Dec 29 2009 Age: 37 Posts: 195

Hi! I am very disturbed by some people treating their cleaning ladies like they arn't human beings. I have a friend who doesn't even own a mop. She makes her cleaning lady clean the floor on her hands and knees. I feel that is very degrading. I do not treat my cleaning lady like a queen but she gets a cup of coffee and I wouldn't have her do anything that I myself havn't done at one time or another.

What do you think?

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Diamond Member Joined: Sep 18 2004 Posts: 2600

There was a thread on exactly this not too long ago.
Do a search.

Posted: Tue, Feb 09 2010, 10:33 pm Post subject:

I have cleaned the floors on my hands and knees in the past too so....

And I serve her a full fresh lunch too....

While I personally would never ask a cleaning lady to do that, if your rule is that if you do it, then it's fine to ask them to do it, there are many that wash their floors on their hands and knees.
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Once a week I clean on my hands and feet and once a week my cleaning lady does. If she would want to be a beautician she would have been except she chose to be a cleaning lady the same way I chose to be a house wife.

Gold Member Joined: May 19 2006 Posts: 1682

if I scrub on my hands and knees, why is it degrading for her?

Executive Member Joined: Nov 03 2009 Posts: 268

I have my [gentile woman] clean my floors on her hands & knees ( tough, I've done the same in the past...)
I treat her really nice. I serve her a nice warm lunch (ex. pancakes, scrambled eggs, pistrami sandwich....) I give her to drink. For the holidays I got her a perfume and pesach time I give her s/th too... I personaly dont see anything wrong w/ it Confused

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Senior Member Joined: Dec 29 2009 Age: 37 Posts: 195

you are all right!!!!!

Diamond Member Joined: Oct 08 2009 Posts: 4018

I buy a special foam rubber pad for their knees. In the 99 cent store.
I serve a fresh hot lunch, with at least 6 different items. (fruits, veggies, bread, soup, protein, nosh, cake, coffee, juice, seltzer, etc.)
I give them extra food/cake/nosh/challa to take home.
I don't own a mop/ and wash the floors the same way if they don't show up.
Every year for the holidays I give her a hundred bucks and a bag full of gifts.
I give her gifts for her birthday, for her kids, and anything I want to get rid of for any reason that would not find a better home, goes to her.
The corners and tight spaces will never get clean with a mop.
There is no way to see the dirt when standing, or to get to scrub the parts that are not easily wiped off.
I try to rotate her jobs, but I do have a lot of floors. She is not on the floor all the time, she does other things too.
She does not seem to mind, and enjoys the satisfaction of a job well done.
If I ever had one that tried to wrap a shmatta around the broom, I fired her!

Diamond Member Joined: Dec 28 2005 Posts: 4656

Thankfully, my cleanliness standards do not include ANYONE (either myself or my cleaning lady) scrubbing the floors on their hands and knees.

Am I the only one that doesn't have a cleaning lady? Confused

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Diamond Member Joined: Oct 08 2009 Posts: 4018

How do you wash your floors on your hands and knees? Do you use a schmatta and dip it in the pail then squeeze it out and wash the floor and then where do you squeeze out the dirty water back into the same clean pail or do you use two pails?

amother to answer your question I have never washed the floors my cleaning ladies do that. I would love to know how to do it, I just don't.
But you don't mind washing out the shmatta in your regular sink?
Also how big is the shmatta that you are using?