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<h2>If you&#39;re fortunate enough to be able to afford a housekeeper, you still have to be do some basic organizing and de-cluttering to prepare for a professional deep clean.</h2><p>It can be frustrating when people you&#39;re paying don&#39;t do the job you asked them to do, but reminding yourself that most people are just trying to get through their shift before you go off in a dramatic Yelp monologue can award you some good karma.</p><p>So, when an incredibly angry and disappointed fish-owner decided to consult the online courtroom of moral philosophy otherwise known as Reddit&#39;s &quot;Am I the As*hole&quot; about whether or not she was wrong to fire her housekeeper for cleaning the forbidden living room, people were quick to help deem a verdict.</p><h2>AITA For Firing My Cleaning Lady For Cleaning?</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;ve had my cleaning service for roughly three years as my husband and I routinely work 12+ hours a day and are often sent away, as well. Since the beginning, I&#39;ve had a strict rule of &quot;Do NOT clean the living room. EVER.&quot; This is due to me keeping a VERY elaborate aquarium (1300 gallon reef) and cleaning products used near it can kill my fish. Because of this, I&#39;m the only one who cleans the living room.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>A few days ago, I noticed a few of my fish seemed to be breathing heavily and a lot of my coral was closed up. This is a very well established tank and it&#39;s been running for the last seven years, so I immediately knew something was wrong. Most of my fish are just as old as the tank and I&#39;ve had very little sickness happen, at all.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Fortunately, my setup allows me to do massive water changes and I was up until 8:00 am changing probably 80% of the water. Despite my best efforts, I lost a LOT of fish. Seahorses (had their own section of the tank). Rays. Various tangs. But, the losses that hit me the hardest were my Moorish Idols and a 6ft Tessalata Moray.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>My entire tank was set up for the Idols, specifically. I spent over a year preparing it, before I even got them. My moray, Bill, I&#39;d had since he was under a foot long. I hand fed him all of his meals.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>While I was trying to figure out what could have possibly caused my tank to crash, I noticed that the living room was clean, spotless, even, and I knew what happened. Chemicals got in the water and killed almost everything. I immediately called my cleaning lady and lost it, telling her that she had ONE thing to remember. ONE.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>And it shouldn&#39;t have been possible to forget, seeing as the reason took up almost an entire wall of my house. She told me she&#39;d hired a new girl and must have forgotten to explain to her that she wasn&#39;t supposed to clean the living room and continued to ask if she&#39;d done a good job. I replied that she&#39;d done such a good job cleaning, she cleaned out my tanks inhabitants and told her she wouldn&#39;t be returning to my home and she wouldn&#39;t be paid for the week.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>She didn&#39;t take that very well and started threatening to bring me to small claims, because the job was still done and done well (apparently). I basically told her to kick dirt and she&#39;s lucky I&#39;m only firing her and not suing her, due to the THOUSANDS of dollars I&#39;d lost due to her &quot;mistake.&quot;</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Everyone keeps telling me &quot;they&#39;re only fish, just buy more!&quot; or &quot;She was just doing her job! I&#39;m sure the poor girl feels horrible enough!&quot; Maybe I&#39;m just letting my anger and upset cloud my judgement and I&#39;m being unreasonably harsh, but I loved those fish. They weren&#39;t &quot;just fish&quot; to me and I loved them all very much. So, please. AITA for firing my cleaning lady for cleaning?</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Here&#39;s what the jury of internet strangers had to say:</h2><blockquote> <p>NTA (Not the As*hole). They&rsquo;re not &ldquo;just fish&rdquo;, they&rsquo;re members of your family. You&rsquo;ve hand-fed a Moray for how f*cking long? I don&rsquo;t even hand-feed my kids for that many years. Your loss was substantial and tragic for you and preventable if they would have just listened. - TheRestForTheWicked</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>They killed your pets. Obviously the value of the fish is much higher than the cost of the cleaning service. So you could do a rough tally of the cost to replace then and let her know you&rsquo;ll be counter-suing her for that amount. NTA - GreenEyedKittyCat</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>NTA. wow. I ran a cleaning company and this lady messed up in one of the worst ways. If this is a legit company, she has business insurance for things like this. I would 100% pursue it. This is major negligence. - Baconpanthegathering</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>NTA. Your cleaning service hired a new cleaner and did not adequately instruct or brief them on how to clean your house. As a result, you have lost priceless marine specimens who had lived with you for a long time and you were attached to. Hugs - Quingood</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>NTA. It sounds like they knew they screwed up, and you lost a lot of fish. Firing them sounds totally reasonable. - KateBeckinsale_PM_Me</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>YTA (You&#39;re the As*hole), definitely. You&rsquo;re lying about your tank for one unless every animal in it was wishing for the sweet release of death every moment of their lives. But then you also decided to hire a cleaning lady (which could kill them all) and just tell her to avoid one room of your house.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>If your tank is that fragile and important then you either clean your house yourself or hire someone who specializes in fragile environments. You just hired the closest person, gave her an absurd mandate, and then flipped when the utterly predictable mistake happened. Pay her her money and clean your own house you cheat. - bgieseler</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>NTA, you hired <em>her</em> to do the job, because you trusted <em>her</em>, and instead she sent in a stranger who she apparently wasn&rsquo;t even supervising. You can be sure if you paid her that not a dime of it would get to whoever actually cleaned anyway. - ScrappleSandwiches</p> </blockquote><h2>So, there you have it!</h2><p>While the opinions were somewhat mixed here, most people agreed that this aquarium keeper had every right to fire her housekeeper for not following specific directions, but she probably needs to be much more communicative in the future. Good luck, everyone!</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Woman asks if she's wrong to fire housekeeper who killed fish.

If you&#39;re fortunate enough to be able to afford a housekeeper, you still have to be do some basic organizing and de-cluttering to prepare for a professional deep clean.It can be frustrating when people you&#39;re paying don&#39;t do the job you asked them to do, but reminding yourself that most people are just trying to get through their shift before you go off in a dramatic Yelp monologue can award you some good karma.So, when an incredibly angry and disappointed fish-owner decided to consult the online courtroom of moral philosophy otherwise known as Reddit&#39;s &quot;Am I the As*hole&quot; about whether or not she was wrong to fire her housekeeper for cleaning the forbidden living room, people were quick to help deem a verdict.AITA For Firing My Cleaning Lady For Cleaning? I&#39;ve had my cleaning service for roughly three years as my husband and I routinely work 12+ hours a day and are often sent away, as well. Since the beginning, I&#39;ve had a strict rule of &quot;Do NOT clean the living room. EVER.&quot; This is due to me keeping a VERY elaborate aquarium (1300 gallon reef) and cleaning products used near it can kill my fish. Because of this, I&#39;m the only one who cleans the living room.   A few days ago, I noticed a few of my fish seemed to be breathing heavily and a lot of my coral was closed up. This is a very well established tank and it&#39;s been running for the last seven years, so I immediately knew something was wrong. Most of my fish are just as old as the tank and I&#39;ve had very little sickness happen, at all.   Fortunately, my setup allows me to do massive water changes and I was up until 8:00 am changing probably 80% of the water. Despite my best efforts, I lost a LOT of fish. Seahorses (had their own section of the tank). Rays. Various tangs. But, the losses that hit me the hardest were my Moorish Idols and a 6ft Tessalata Moray.   My entire tank was set up for the Idols, specifically. I spent over a year preparing it, before I even got them. My moray, Bill, I&#39;d had since he was under a foot long. I hand fed him all of his meals.   While I was trying to figure out what could have possibly caused my tank to crash, I noticed that the living room was clean, spotless, even, and I knew what happened. Chemicals got in the water and killed almost everything. I immediately called my cleaning lady and lost it, telling her that she had ONE thing to remember. ONE.   And it shouldn&#39;t have been possible to forget, seeing as the reason took up almost an entire wall of my house. She told me she&#39;d hired a new girl and must have forgotten to explain to her that she wasn&#39;t supposed to clean the living room and continued to ask if she&#39;d done a good job. I replied that she&#39;d done such a good job cleaning, she cleaned out my tanks inhabitants and told her she wouldn&#39;t be returning to my home and she wouldn&#39;t be paid for the week.   She didn&#39;t take that very well and started threatening to bring me to small claims, because the job was still done and done well (apparently). I basically told her to kick dirt and she&#39;s lucky I&#39;m only firing her and not suing her, due to the THOUSANDS of dollars I&#39;d lost due to her &quot;mistake.&quot;   Everyone keeps telling me &quot;they&#39;re only fish, just buy more!&quot; or &quot;She was just doing her job! I&#39;m sure the poor girl feels horrible enough!&quot; Maybe I&#39;m just letting my anger and upset cloud my judgement and I&#39;m being unreasonably harsh, but I loved those fish. They weren&#39;t &quot;just fish&quot; to me and I loved them all very much. So, please. AITA for firing my cleaning lady for cleaning? Here&#39;s what the jury of internet strangers had to say: NTA (Not the As*hole). They&rsquo;re not &ldquo;just fish&rdquo;, they&rsquo;re members of your family. You&rsquo;ve hand-fed a Moray for how f*cking long? I don&rsquo;t even hand-feed my kids for that many years. Your loss was substantial and tragic for you and preventable if they would have just listened. - TheRestForTheWicked   They killed your pets. Obviously the value of the fish is much higher than the cost of the cleaning service. So you could do a rough tally of the cost to replace then and let her know you&rsquo;ll be counter-suing her for that amount. NTA - GreenEyedKittyCat   NTA. wow. I ran a cleaning company and this lady messed up in one of the worst ways. If this is a legit company, she has business insurance for things like this. I would 100% pursue it. This is major negligence. - Baconpanthegathering   NTA. Your cleaning service hired a new cleaner and did not adequately instruct or brief them on how to clean your house. As a result, you have lost priceless marine specimens who had lived with you for a long time and you were attached to. Hugs - Quingood   NTA. It sounds like they knew they screwed up, and you lost a lot of fish. Firing them sounds totally reasonable. - KateBeckinsale_PM_Me   YTA (You&#39;re the As*hole), definitely. You&rsquo;re lying about your tank for one unless every animal in it was wishing for the sweet release of death every moment of their lives. But then you also decided to hire a cleaning lady (which could kill them all) and just tell her to avoid one room of your house.  If your tank is that fragile and important then you either clean your house yourself or hire someone who specializes in fragile environments. You just hired the closest person, gave her an absurd mandate, and then flipped when the utterly predictable mistake happened. Pay her her money and clean your own house you cheat. - bgieseler   NTA, you hired her to do the job, because you trusted her, and instead she sent in a stranger who she apparently wasn&rsquo;t even supervising. You can be sure if you paid her that not a dime of it would get to whoever actually cleaned anyway. - ScrappleSandwiches So, there you have it!While the opinions were somewhat mixed here, most people agreed that this aquarium keeper had every right to fire her housekeeper for not following specific directions, but she probably needs to be much more communicative in the future. Good luck, everyone!

If you&#39;re fortunate enough to be able to afford a housekeeper, you still have to be do some basic organizing and de-cluttering to prepare for a professional deep clean.  It can be frustrating when people you&#39;re paying don&#39;t do...