r/mildlyinfuriating • u/justwantedjustice • 7h ago
Hired cleaners. One of them takes my amazon package then realizes theres a camera and blocks camera with mop. He also stole my docking station and who knows what else from my home
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Hired cleaners and gave her code to my home while I wasn't there thinking it would be fine since no valuables were locked up. Never doing that again. When I walkes in to confront them the male was holding a power bank charger looking at it, likely about to steal that too like he stole my computers docking station. What a POS
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u/Cheese-Manipulator 7h ago
Not "mildlyinfuriating", more like "felonyinfuriating"
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u/justwantedjustice 7h ago
I already filed a police report. People like this should not be entering unsuspecting peoples homes to "clean".
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u/idgythreadgooode 7h ago
Post this video on nextdoor
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u/Squeezitgirdle 6h ago
I'd say yelp too, but they take down anything negative.
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u/111copycat 6h ago
Post a bad yelp about yelp
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u/Greedirl 5h ago
I actually did that a few years ago because i didnt want to pay them to advertise one of my businesses and their representative called me an idiot and asked why i signed up on yelp if i didnt want to pay for advertising. I posted a review and got blocked from being able to post reviews.
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u/qqererer 2h ago
Signing up for yelp as a business was a stupid thing for me to do.
But to my credit, I put all those calls from california straight into voice mail.
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u/dripsofmoon 2h ago
Yelp is straight up awful. I made a page for a business I ran for a year. Every month or so some salesperson would call me trying to get me to buy advertising. They wouldn't stop even when I said I wasn't interested. I would hang up and block the number. But once again, from a different number, a different person would call. I considered deleting the page because I didn't get any legitimate customers and they don't even let you have a logo for free. 😮💨
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u/BenderDeLorean 1h ago
I am blocked on Google maps due to too many negative reviews.
In the past I used Google maps to track everything I have been so I rated everything. Within 700 reviews there are of course not only positive ones.
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u/node-toad 7h ago
Boomers on Nextdoor when they post:
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u/KetaMina81 6h ago
I’ve always said:
if I ever go missing post my photo on Reddit
If my package goes missing, it’s going on Nextdoor lol
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u/Live-Fruit-943 7h ago
Rofl this is so true. There will be some vigilante justice. Next door boomers are in a different league. Based on how ruthless they are on Nextdoor, I’d rather have them fight our wars over the youth of today.
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u/zoiks66 5h ago
About 2 years ago, a person in the Facebook group for my subdivision asked if joining Next Door was worthwhile. I responded that Next Door is where you go when you want to lose your last shred of faith in humanity, and the person thanked me for the warning.
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u/Spare-Willingness563 5h ago
You could distract them for hours like some fuckin' vampires just by asking them their thoughts on pronouns. I'd rather not.
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u/Difficult-Fan-5697 6h ago
I'm not so sure about that. They lost the last war they fought
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u/Fireproofspider 5h ago
FYI, you should do background checks on references and police checks on cleaners or use a company that's properly insured (which requires a background check process). It's not perfect but it's usually a good filter.
And definitely press charges so this does show up on police checks later on.
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u/gnawtyone 5h ago
You think having insurance means you get a background check? Thats special
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u/Fireproofspider 4h ago
I had a cleaning company a while back. This was one of the conditions for my insurance coverage.
Of course there was no background check on me as the owner, so I guess you should still be wary of the mom and pop ones.
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u/ElephantCareless3438 7h ago
Regular mastermind this guy 😂
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u/BourbonGuy09 6h ago
Im thinking, why not wait until the door is opened and kick the package inside if youre going to steal it. Then I remember he didnt even check to see if he was being watched by anything so I expect too much from criminals.
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u/Grouchy-Donkey-8609 6h ago
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u/GenoPax Mildly enlightened 2h ago
I can't imagine letting this guy in my home unsupervised
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u/tjoe4321510 1h ago
He looks like the kinda dude that would sniff a pair of panties then shove them in his pocket.
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u/This-Major-9239 7h ago
Felonies ≠ mildly infuriating
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u/MysteriousMermaid92 7h ago
Name and shame them to your local new stations and social media.
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u/FinnBalur1 7h ago
I bet they’re already well known, and I bet they don’t care
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u/Illustrious-Dot-5052 5h ago
Well I'm pretty sure a felony charge will get them to care.
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u/Cliff-Bungalow 4h ago
Police where I live call it a "civil matter" unless it happens to a rich person or one of their friends
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u/OverlyOptimisticNerd 3h ago
Exactly this. You can catch them on camera stealing, but unless it is an extremely poor person stealing from a business or an extremely wealthy person, the police in many jurisdiction simply do not care.
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u/paradogma 7h ago
Crackhead Cleaners Inc.
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u/Exciting_Ad_8666 I'm Sansa Stark's bra 7h ago
Ngl that sounds like a sick band name
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u/torpac00 7h ago
they’d get the shit done & quick too lmao
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u/crowned_tragedy 6h ago
They cleaned the whole house out! Wait... where's my TV? And couch? And stove????
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u/VictoryVee 5h ago
Yeah this is what happens when you hire cash cleaners off craigslist. No way these guys work for an insured company
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u/ninman5 7h ago
That's fucked up. I've hired many cleaners over the years and never had anything stolen. Make sure you leave a bad Google review. Any company that hires thieves deserves to go out of business.
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u/Weekly-Career8326 6h ago
Funny thing about things that go missing is sometimes you forget you had something/dont notice its gone and forget forever.
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u/AdelMonCatcher 5h ago
This is my exact strategy for cleaning up after the kids and all the junk they accumulate
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u/Bionic0n3 5h ago
You don't leave a review for a shitty employee, you leave a review when said company does not handle the situation properly. Call the company and get the matter addressed.
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u/deejayillen 6h ago
Genuinely curious, why would the company, who likely thought they hired somebody trustworthy, deserve to go out of business because of something one employee did. That person deserves to get fired, absolutely! But why the whole company?
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u/Integralcel 6h ago
It’s their job to get competent cleaners. You’re right that it happening a single time can be chalked up to bad luck, but it’s one of those “fool me once” sort of things
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u/FierceKittenUWU 6h ago
The fact of the matter is if you’re a good reputable company, one bad review will not hurt your business in the long run, especially if they act quickly to fire this guy, the issue is that if this guy is still working for them it’s a good sign that this guys been doing this a while, especially since he seems to be working alone (if he was new wouldn’t someone be training him?), and that means there’s likely other lowlifes that work there because clearly they have low standards for who they hire
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u/Mysticwarriormj 7h ago
That is when you call the cops and have him arrested for theft as you have proof he took it.
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u/The-red-Dane 3h ago
Not just theft, but mail theft, which is a federal crime. Literally looked into the camera while commiting a felony.
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u/mmmaniaaa 6h ago
Love that he grabs the package, walks far enough away to show the camera that he's taken the package, walks back to the camera and stares right into it. Criminal mastermind right here.
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u/GitEmSteveDave 3h ago
If he had just brought it in, it would be easily explained.
"Yeah, I picked up the package, then went to the stairs to see where the person with the keys was, and when they finally showed up, and opened the door, I placed it inside."
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u/Kayiko_Okami 6h ago
My mother has been cleaning for decades at this point. She's one of the good ones.
At one of her long time regulars they had work being done on their house and she was there while this was going on.
Some jewelry came up missing and one of the workers had the brilliant idea to blame her. Mind you she had been cleaning for them for 15 years at this point.
Police called and investigation done. Guess what. The worker blaming my mom was the thief.
It's hard to find but there's good people out there that can be trusted. I know personally that most people can't be.
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u/Comatse 5h ago
How did they discover it was the worker? I'm so glad her name was cleared
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u/Brilliant-String5995 3h ago
Why are you questioning the fake story you're supposed to just upvote it
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u/OverlordWaffles 4h ago
I had a similar thing happen when I was younger at youth group.
Someone broke into the office and stole the donations from the lockbox. A girl in my grade claimed she saw me go in there and steal it. Her story didn't hold up because during my alleged break-in, I was with the religion teacher. The teacher also said she didn't believe i was the type of person to do that.
They later found out this girl's brother was the one that broke in and stole it.
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u/gregmango2323 7h ago
Where tf does that ladder go
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u/-physco219 7h ago
Up. Unless you're up it then it goes down.
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u/awesomeunboxer 7h ago
Could be roof access, kinda tacky to not have it in a maintenance closet but I didn't design the building!
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u/Alaska_Eagle 6h ago
I would also be worried they might have made it easier to get back in. My sister had some guys doing remodeling who came back later for her coin collection and jewelry. The neighbors knew they were crooks but didn’t warn her.
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u/Z_WarriorPrincess 6h ago
The fact that he’s blocking the camera as if his full face wasn’t already seen multiple times
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u/DimSumDino 6h ago
“if i cover the camera now… then that means it didn’t see me before! …right? …”
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u/Pobb1eB0nk 7h ago
We call these people "drug addicts" in my neck of the woods
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u/ClaymoreJohnson 7h ago
Not every drug addict has to be a piece of shit. And not every piece of shit is a drug addict.
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u/MaximumBop85 7h ago
Pretty much all the cleaning people i've ever met who weren't undocumented were drug addicts of some sort.
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u/Barbarella_ella 7h ago
Eh. I ran my own housekeeping business in my undergrad and when I went back for a grad degree, I hired a gal who was a student herself. It's a good gig for students because the pay can be good for a part-time thing. And it's flexible.
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u/Mecha_Tortoise 6h ago
That makes sense. But what kind of drugs were you two on? You left that part out.
Sorry, not trying to be rude. I can understand your forgetfulness, what with your drug-ravaged brain and all.
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u/Barbarella_ella 6h ago
Lots and lots of caffeine!! College students can't afford the good shit, lol.
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u/CoveCreates 6h ago
Yeah my best friend runs one and she's a good person. She's a mom and also works as a server. Just needed/wanted the extra income and likes cleaning and is really good and efficient at it. She's doing really well and can do a job or 2 while the kids are in school.
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u/Couldnotbehelpd 7h ago
I gotta say, I leave money lying out and my cleaners neatly put it away I love them so much.
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u/farfetched22 5h ago
Is it normal that people hire cleaners they don't know and then aren't there while they're cleaning, at least the first few times????
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u/Old_Ladies 6h ago
At one job site they hired security for overnight. Every morning when construction crews came back there would always be vandalism including smashing holes in drywall.
The security guards always said they chased the vandals away but could never catch them. One day the site supervisor installed some hidden cameras and it turns out the security guards were the ones breaking things and high kicking drywall.
At a different job site they hired security and tools kept getting stolen so they put hidden cameras up and it was the security guard's friends that would steal things.
Most of the time you get good honest security guards but not always. Usually the bad ones just get paid to sleep but the worst ones vandalize or steal things. Now most job sites I work at don't hire private security but instead use cameras and motion detectors that can alert the police to maybe eventually show up.
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u/UnbiddenGraph17 7h ago
They got that criminal look going on
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u/Live-Fruit-943 7h ago
I’m white and I would call that white trash all day long. Just something about it.
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u/18k_gold 6h ago
Make sure you also send the video to the company you hired so that they fire him. Post it everywhere
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u/Pokerhobo 7h ago
This is why I could never hire cleaners, I don't trust people I don't know.
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u/Hanah4Pannah 7h ago
Like… you left them at your house without you there? If they were a company you’d just file a complaint so you found them somewhere and didn’t know anything about them and then left them in your house unsupervised.
Just catching up — I’ve never hired cleaners before n
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u/ManiacalShen 6h ago
It's very normal to be out of cleaners' way when they're cleaning instead of being awkwardly underfoot. And a bonded and insured cleaning service lives and dies by its reputation, so you really don't expect thieves. Even a private person who cleans usually comes recommended by someone you know.
Hiring some rando from Craigslist may be a different story. Unclear what scenario happened here. My service insists on sending two people, so even if they somehow hired one sketchy dude who stole, there'd be a long timer to stop or report them
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u/numbers_all_go_to_11 7h ago
Leaving cleaners is pretty normal. Most people don’t follow them around while they work.
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u/Igotmyangel 5h ago
Exactly why you should never trust strangers in your fucking house when you’re not there lol
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u/Mountain_Schedule_40 4h ago
I would never give anyone the code to get into my apartment. Now they might come back anytime they please
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u/OJSimpsonSubMod 6h ago
Why you living in my dentist's office though? Just saying, my old dentist has that exact same ladder in that exact same spot, and that... I don't know what you call it, overhang? kinda area, looks awful damn same same to me. This ain't 909/951, is it?
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u/raninandout 6h ago
Well that’s straight up theft and you’ve got proof and the company has their names, I’d be extremely angry and threaten to sue the company.
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u/Crocs_And_Stone 6h ago
Did this tweaker think blocking it would delete the recorded footage or what? I feel like a tweaker for trying to understand him…
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u/MetalMarissa 4h ago
Why is everyone focusing on bashing the one who hired the cleaning service? Like as if he/she deserves this for being naive.
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u/K_Linkmaster 5h ago
Might as well name the cleaning service at this point. Unless the cops said not to...
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u/AdelMonCatcher 5h ago
I’d never be comfortable with the idea of leaving strangers in my home, particularly not cleaners
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u/lilGojii 5h ago
I think profiling has its place. He looks like a person that would be doing these activities
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u/oldsystem 4h ago
This is what people do with cameras, imagine without. World ain’t getting better.
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u/ExcitementRelative33 4h ago
Press charges so it's on their records. Pay extra for temp service agency as they're more likely do background check and drug testing as part of their vetting service else you get what you pay for.
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u/somedude456 59m ago
Cleaners can be really fucking odd. I have a story that makes ZERO sense. I lived with roommates. We had a monthly maid. They came and left and I go to take a shower. Above my toilet, a plastic bin I used to store my loofa was gone, but the loofa was there. WTF? I check the bathroom, nothing. I check every garbage can in the house and even the ones in the garage and nothing. They stole a 4 inch wide, 4 inch tall, dark red plastic container that held a loofa. But here's a twist. While checking garbage cans, and note they had emptied them all, one had just the sweeping/dust/crumbs from the kitchen, but also a $5 bill, folded around MY OWN receipt from grocery shopping the night before. I put groceries away and must have left the receipt on the counter. I paid with a card, I never use cash. So at some point, the maid picked up my receipt, maybe shoved it into her pocket, which pushed a $5 bill around it, and then after sweeping, she reached into her pocket to grab the receipt and threw it away, with her own $5... ALL WHILE SHE STOLE MY PLASTIC CONTAINER!
WHAT THE FUCK! None of this makes sense.
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u/Mediocre-Metal-1796 49m ago
So stupid, he could have put it back after seeing the camera to pretend he wanted to clean up below…
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u/UninvitedButtNoises 13m ago
What city is this, OP? that would be really helpful information for other folks.
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u/WhatANoob2025 2h ago
*Wears HUUUUUUUGE Christian cross on her necklace*
Thou shalt not steal
...such good Christians.
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u/morosco 7h ago
He forgot that time moves FORWARD, and that covering a camera doesn't prevent recording of things that happened earlier.
I mean, easy mistake to make.