Every so often I have days where I am unsure whether to laugh or cry, and today definitely falls in to that bracket.
Somewhat disturbingly, our somewhat strange cleaner seems to have developed some kind of obsession with me (obviously she wouldn't be the first...)
Apparently she has been asked to attend a disciplinary meeting with her employers (we contract out to an external company) next week, due to her poor performance.
Given the state of the toilets whenever she is around, it's not before time...
Anyway, for some reason she felt compelled to tell me all of this and ask me to sort it out today, as she is worried that she may lose her job.
I politely pointed out that she was not an employee of ours so the matter was very much between her and her management, and advised her to contact them if she needed to clarify anything.
This, I thought, would be enough to satisfy her, but hours after she had left our site she gave me a call to update me on the situation.
I'm a nice person, deep down, so struggle to tell her to tell someone who cares, but it really has done my head in today.
We've got enough issues with our own employees without worrying about the employees of other companies...
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