This cleaner is talking s- -t.
A woman paid to polish and scrub people’s homes is slamming snobby clients, dishing on their irritating antics that make her feel like a lower-class citizen.
Victoria, who runs Pocket Rockets Cleaning Services, took to TikTok to discuss the pitfalls of her job in a video that has been viewed more than 17,000 times.
“Not every cleaner might find these annoying, but this is just personal to me,” the Englishwoman stated, saying she was sharing a list of her greatest gripes.
Firstly, the cleaner claimed that her biggest peeve is when clients follow her around their homes because they don’t trust that she is doing a good job.
“It’s rude, it’s disrespectful and it’s annoying. If you have a cleaner please do not do this,” she implored.
Secondly, Victoria said she despises customers who look down on her and assume she is of lower status simply because she’s a house cleaner.
“[The annoyance is] when someone refers to you in a derogatory way so they might call you ‘the help,'” she explained. “Or just has an air about them that you are like lower than them, that you work for them, that you are their employer.”
She continued her rant, saying she was a business owner who demanded respect.
“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,” she fumed. “It’s not a thing anymore.”
Also on Victoria’s list of grievances: clients who ask her to perform specialized tasks not within her job description.
“I’m talking ridiculous things,” the cleaner claimed. “I had one lady who asked 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, ” Victoria continued. “but I’m not a floor specialist”
Meanwhile, the cleaner said she additionally despised being asked to start a task just before she was due to wrap up a shift at the house.
Several other house cleaners chimed in with their own sentiments beneath Victoria’s video, saying they had also been asked to do ridiculous tasks.
One even claimed that she had been asked to take a stool sample for her client’s grandmother.
On the other hand, several other viewers said they were always respectful to those they hired to tidy their homes and urged Victoria to literally clean house — by getting some nicer clients.
“I have a cleaner every two weeks. I leave her to it, I don’t bother her, and I leave a key if I’m not in,” one proud woman wrote. “Perfect.”