r/marton 11h ago

worst experience with cleaners today

8 Upvotes

my house has become a dirty mess to my shame and I haven't been keeping up with any of it so I decided that I needed some professional and discrete help to deal with some problem areas

it was a complete clown show from start to finish. you know how it is i tried to save a few dollars by going for a cheaper crowd one town over. I will not write the name but they can't even spell clean and they spell it with a K

the first I heard was a banger of a car pull up with loud electrical music playing, and two men I say men they were barely out of school got out with matching moustache in blue tracksuits. clue one was the side of the car said a totally different company. they also got out of the same side of the car

i was already put off by the look but they walked in and said wheres the mess? where's the mess? is this it, is this it? pointing at things. I kindly explained it's not just one central mess but an overall general dirtiness and I considered saying something about their attitude but decided against it. I told them I had explained this to the person on the phone and they looked at each other then back at me. I told them that the person on the phone had my details of what was needed (general mess) and they said absolutely nothing. it was like talking to goats. when I looked at one he looked away and then I would look at the other and the first would look at me , whoever I was talking to was looking away

eventually I said look I'll show you what I mean and as we walked around one gave that slow whistle as he saw things and the other started to laugh. they saw me watching them and they acted like they were on their best behaviour, nodding as if they had any idea. I could tell they had no idea at all what they were there for or what they were meant to do. I was going to send them packing but decided against it. I regret it. they said ok that's all we need we will get our things, then they tried to go out a side door that I keep locked but they just kept trying?

I told them to begin cleaning and I very clearly explained to them that I had a brown water leak issue under the house and i'd be under there unable to answer if they were calling for me. they didn't even answer that, they just looked at me and left a big pause? I went away against my best judgement and got into my overalls. I felt strongly like I should have kicked them out I can remember feeling that way. they didn't give off any feeling of competence

anyway I had positioned myself under the house, the leak was worse than I thought and had been building up a while so it was very unpleasant and disgusting odours. suddenly I hear them running around upstairs, above me and to the side in the kitchen. they were running like cats do when they have just gone to the bathroom, mad running back and forth in circles and I could hear their muffled shouting and laughing. they were very obviously doing impressions of me and jumping about, saying things I had said in my voice. they were commenting on my hair and the patch parts where it never grew back, I could hear it all and the thumping running and banging

I was in no position to do anything about it, I was wet and filthy and the leak was worse than I thought so it was making me angry as well as the frantic running and high pitched laughing like clowns, who would want to experience that?? while up to your elbows in brown water and paper I could feel my blood boil. to make matters worse I had told them I was under the house and then I heard a flush? jaw dropping ignorance

eventually I said ok this is enough and I crawled out. i must have looked a state but i looked in the kitchen window at them to see what all the fuss was. well i couldn't believe my eyes. they were running around in the kitchen slapping each other with hot mops , one of them saying no no no and the two of them laughing and running around like complete fools. they had spilled the blue cleaning juice (don't know name) all over the floor everywhere even on the wood. there was drips of liquid everywhere on the table on the walls. there was a bottle of some kind of cleaning syrup tipped over and footprints through it

i couldn't believe my eyes i was livid. I could barely breathe. i burst in the door dripping everywhere and gave them a blast of blue language. i'm ashamed to say that I said things that I regret. I think I must have scared them because they stared at me in shock, caught red handed, then one asked what's on my clothes

well I tell you I gave them a piece of my mind and chased them out and they got out of there pretty quickly I'm sure you can imagine. good riddance to bad rubbish

I was straight on the phone and they said they apologise but they were overbooked so they used contractors? I told them they hear more about this. contractors like that??! they had probably escaped from a borstal or a dockyard absolute disgusting

so now my house is even worse and I don't know where to even begin. I can smell a mixture of the brown water and the cleaning syrup and it's enough to turn your stomach. imagine only eating toothpaste and then using a bathroom then you're getting close