I swear. We had suicide hour at 07h00 this morning. We had to wake, feed and mobilise everyone for school and it did NOT go well.
(Daniel has also decided he no longer wants to sleep alone so we had argument in the middle of the night, but more about that later.)
But, what I really want to tell you about is our domestic dinosaur. She is a Zimbabwean lady that has been with us 2/3 days a week since the time we had a full-time nanny. Afterthe nanny left I realised that there was quite a lot of stuff missing like shoes and clothes. Arb stuff that you aren’t really sure whether you have just misplaced it or whether it is gone. So, I left it, but made a mental note to keep an eye out. She has also subsequently found part-time employment at someone further down the road.
So, back to this morning, with much fanfare I finally manage to leave the house as the lady is not in today, and halfway down the road realise I had left my make-up bag at home. Turn around to come home grumbling nasty, nasty words to myself when I see the back of a sweater that has our Corporate branding on from a few years ago and I think, hey, someone else has that sweater, but they must have worked with me as it was only internal staff that got those sweaters. Low and behold, as I drive past the person it is our domestic worker wearing the sweater.
Did I stop the car and confront her? No. I was in shock.
I have been looking for a live-in worker for ages now, so we were very happy that she found alternative days to work anyway, but this feels like such a smack in the face. She recently brought her son down from Zimbabwe, so I have been worrying about leaving her destitute, but now I’m kind of over it. We have really taken good care of her, always send clothes and extra food for her boy. But I’m quite pissed off.
What would you have done?
Also drove past, but fired her sooner, with some valid reasons like I’m losing my job!
I don’t know, with this sort of thing I tend to be a bit impulsive and think I probably would have stopped and demanded the top back :D.
No really, I don’t know what I would have done, but any feelings of guilt on your part are not necessary. xx
Aahh. It feels a bit like bad karma. But hey.
Thanks Shaz 🙂
Tania, that is shocking. I would confront her next time she comes in and let her go immediately, especially after all the other problems you had with her!
Uh Oh! sounds all to familiar. I actually fear confrontation by myself with the domestics so I wait 4 DH 2 get home & he handles it. It is often denied, but it makes them aware that we’re keeping an eye out
I’m a silent brooder….wouldn’t have stopped,BUT Hubbie would have had the looooong rendition when I got home and he probably would have done something…I’m a bit of a woos
Oy, that’s awful. I’m so sorry this has happened. When we discovered D’s first Nanny was stealing money from us we couldn’t believe it and stayed up half the night debating what to do. We eventually laid a trap for her and she took the bait. Then I still stayed up the whole night before we fired her. She begged to come back and be given another chance but for the first time in my life I was unmoved. As I told my DH: if I can’t trust her with things then I certainly can’t trust her to look after the most precious “thing” in my life – my child.
Shoowee, you are absolutely right!
Grrrrr..
She has been annoying me for ages, so hubby has already been dealing with her mostly. This is just the final straw..
Same here 🙂
I never quite know how to deal with these situations unless you catch them red handed and have a witness they can take you to the ccma.
I would still confront her and give her a chance to fess up. Tell her what you saw and ask her to return any other ‘borrowed’ items.
Thanks Cams.
That really sucks!
I’m with Cams on this one!
🙂
Stealing is the pitts for me! But I also let The Bear handle things like this because as is they don’t really take me seriously.