A cleaner has revealed the most annoying habits of customers and urged people not to repeat their mistakes.
One of the experts behind @pocketrocketscleaning, Victoria, told of her pet peeves in a light hearted video she shared on TikTok.
Regularly posting about her work on the platform, the team at Pocket Rockets Cleaning are specialists in crime scene and bio hazard cleaning, as well as domestic cleaning.
The videos often gain traction on social media and Victoria's cleaning pet peeves have now gone viral, the Mirror reports.
The video was captioned "the things that clients do that irritate cleaners".
Not wanting to speak for others, she prefaced her video by stating - "if you have a cleaner and you've done any of these, no hate, it's just a bit of fun" while noting "not every cleaner might find these things annoying" - but it turned out lots of viewers could relate to her bugbears.
Explaining her pet peeves, Victoria said: "Firstly and my absolute worst one is when somebody follows you around. Like, they have hired you to clean the house but they don't trust you or they don't think you know what you're doing and they follow you around the house, like checking up.
'It's rude, it's disrespectful and it's annoying. If you have a cleaner please do not do this.
"Another one is when someone refers to you in a sort of derogatory way, so they might call you 'the help'. It's quite an extreme example but it does happen," she continued.
"Or even if they have an air about them that you are like lower than them, that you work for them, that they are your employer.
"Like, it's not the 1920s, you know, the cleaners and the housekeepers, the staff being like the bottom of the lowest of the low. The pond slime. It's not a thing anymore."
Commenters previously raised an issue which Victoria agreed with: "When we've just mopped the floor and someone comes in and walks all over it, or you have just cleaned the kitchen and they come in and make their lunch, or you have just washed up and they come and put a few cups in the sink."
She explained: "I know it happens and if the client is there while you're cleaning, of course, it is going to happen, but it is mildly irritating."
Victoria is even sometimes asked to perform non-cleaning roles.
"I'm not talking about unreasonable requests, I'm talking about ridiculous things," she said.
"So I had one lady who wanted me to oil her wooden floor. She was like, 'Bring your knee pads next week I want you to oil my floors'. I looked at her confused and she said, 'Don't worry I have the oil'. I'm sure you have love, but I'm not a floor specialist.
"Or I've been asked to clean outside windows a few times and it's like 'No mate get a window cleaner'."
And finally, Victoria said one "irritating" thing was being asked by a homeowner to start a lengthly job when she is just about to leave.
Victoria's caption added: "Cleaners do you agree?" - prompting hundreds of comments. "One husband called me a maid and clicked his fingers at me! Didn't go back," one person revealed.
A second replied: "Had a client click her fingers at me! I somehow kept my cool but informed her I wouldn't be returning!" Meanwhile, another commenter added: "Phew! I don't do any of these. My cleaner is brilliant and my lifeline. Protect at all costs, she's precious."
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