Flatmate invited a friend to crash in our living room for "around 2 weeks" while he hunts for his own place to live. I was not consulted about this, nor am I getting any benefit from it (not sure if he's crashing here for free or he's paying her a nominal rent). Not only is it a 3rd person in a smallish flat already occupied by 2 people and 2 pets, it's a guy, so that's a bit uncomfortable (given that it's a total stranger).
Flatmate also arranged for the cleaner to show up at 8am this morning (again, without my knowledge). She has no concept of courtesy. So at 8am I was woken up by the hoover and loud chatter about what gets cleaned and how…
Cleaned has so far included: my dog's water/food bowls, 30 seconds before I was going to feed him (I wash out the water bowl about once a week, but the food bowl is a once-a-month thing at most - not to mention, MY bowls for MY pets). Currently doing my dog's blanket (which looks fine to me, and wtf, it's MY dog, and MY blanket, and my poor dog is just standing to the side going "what are you doing to my bed?").
Her cleanliness standards are completely insane, and her concept of common courtesy is non-existent.
ETA: she's been dictating to the cleaner exactly how to clean things. ("this has bleach, wear gloves", etc). She's a cleaner for a living, presumably she knows what she's doing. To give her credit, she is "helping" with the cleaning, but that seems even more dumb (if you're going to do half of it yourself and dictate every move the woman makes, save yourself the money and just do it all yourself). And it goes without saying that everything is "completely filthy", even though it all got cleaned 2 weeks ago and she was the only one using it for half the time since then.
