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> 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 a

> 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.

akshatpradhan 11y ago
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.
- fweespeech 11y ago
  > It was the experience of that interaction that mattered and I didn't feel that Homejoy lived up to that promise. ...literally all maid companies are ineffective at screening out people who might give the impression they take things. Its why its a running joke. I get people on HN think of cleaners should be paragons of ethical morality incapable of creating a misunderstanding for $10/hr. I'm still going to call it extremely naive to expect anything close to 100% of cleaners to meet that standard.
  - akshatpradhan 11y ago
    >I'm still going to call it extremely naive to expect anything close to 100% of cleaners to meet that standard. That was the promise made by Homejoy.

akshatpradhan 11y ago

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.

fweespeech 11y ago
> It was the experience of that interaction that mattered and I didn't feel that Homejoy lived up to that promise. ...literally all maid companies are ineffective at screening out people who might give the impression they take things. Its why its a running joke. I get people on HN think of cleaners should be paragons of ethical morality incapable of creating a misunderstanding for $10/hr. I'm still going to call it extremely naive to expect anything close to 100% of cleaners to meet that standard.
- akshatpradhan 11y ago
  >I'm still going to call it extremely naive to expect anything close to 100% of cleaners to meet that standard. That was the promise made by Homejoy.