>1. The cleaners were not professionals. It felt like they were just recruiting anyone who wanted a job. You could really feel this with the lack of passion from the cleaners and the severe lack of quality cleaning. Most of the people complained and were quite rude sometimes. Cleaning is very much a skill as much as it is manual labor.
For me personally, it felt they had little training of how to clean. Things like dusting diligently, wiping diligently, and mopping diligently just weren't done. Sometimes they'd spend way too much time in one area. One person spent 45 mins on my bathroom floor. I couldn't understand why and when I asked him to work on other areas he said, "please don't tell me how to clean."
There is definitely a skill to cleaning and unfortunately, I didn't feel they had enough training to call them skilled.
>2. People don't want to let just anyone into their home to clean. Especially for those that have valuables, you want someone you trust who is going to hopefully be your maid for years to come. I wouldn't want someone new every time and for that reason, I used HomeJoy only at our office but even that wasn't enough due to poor quality.
There was one guy that came into my apartment, and he was in the valuables room. Not much of a peep had gone by in 30 mins, so I checked in and I heard a drop of the jewelry box. He said he was just cleaning around and that an earring was missing and he was looking for it. I didn't say much because I was thinking in my mind what's he doing with an earring in the first place when I had just put all jewelry out of sight. I walked out the room and he said something like, "here it is, its put back". Its hard to describe in words, but the atmosphere was very uncomfortable at that point.
I can't tell whether he took something or not, but that was the experience Homejoy provided.
I live in a "secure building" where you need to be buzzed in or have a key fob. A Homejoy cleaner assaulted me while screaming "I'm late for a job you gotta let me in!" when I refused to let her tailgate in. When asked for identification or what unit she was trying to get to, I was simply told: "You stupid punkass bch, I work for Homejoy... ya'll <racial slur>s is paranoid."
After 6 phone calls and just as many promises of being called back, I was basically told they couldn't address my problem because I wasn't a customer.
Took the issue to the HOA and we banned Homejoy from the building.
> This. Very much. There was one guy that came into my apartment, and he was in the valuables room. Not much of a peep had gone by in 30 mins, so I checked in and I heard a drop of the jewelry box. He said he was just cleaning around and that an earring was missing and he was looking for it. I didn't say much because I was thinking in my mind what's he doing with an earring in the first place. I walk out the room and he says something like, "here it is, its put back". Its hard to describe in words, but the atmosphere was very uncomfortable at that point.
If you are letting strangers in your house, you lock up valuables they can walk out with. For someone who uses his HN profile to state he takes security seriously...you don't seem to take basic security measures.
Having any kind of employee [or contractor] is as much removing the easiest and most typical temptations as it is hiring the right person.
Jewelry boxes, cash, credit cards, etc. should have been locked up and out of sight.
Basic security measures were taken in the valuables room. The jewels out-of-site and in the box were all fake. Whether the jewels were fake or real or whether anything was taken or not doesn't matter right now.
It was the experience of that interaction that mattered and I didn't feel that Homejoy lived up to that promise.
For me personally, it felt they had little training of how to clean. Things like dusting diligently, wiping diligently, and mopping diligently just weren't done. Sometimes they'd spend way too much time in one area. One person spent 45 mins on my bathroom floor. I couldn't understand why and when I asked him to work on other areas he said, "please don't tell me how to clean."
There is definitely a skill to cleaning and unfortunately, I didn't feel they had enough training to call them skilled.
>2. People don't want to let just anyone into their home to clean. Especially for those that have valuables, you want someone you trust who is going to hopefully be your maid for years to come. I wouldn't want someone new every time and for that reason, I used HomeJoy only at our office but even that wasn't enough due to poor quality.
There was one guy that came into my apartment, and he was in the valuables room. Not much of a peep had gone by in 30 mins, so I checked in and I heard a drop of the jewelry box. He said he was just cleaning around and that an earring was missing and he was looking for it. I didn't say much because I was thinking in my mind what's he doing with an earring in the first place when I had just put all jewelry out of sight. I walked out the room and he said something like, "here it is, its put back". Its hard to describe in words, but the atmosphere was very uncomfortable at that point.
I can't tell whether he took something or not, but that was the experience Homejoy provided.