Jaime Johnson: the good and the bad
First the good
I am a single male with a 2 story 2.5 bedroom townhouse. Recently I had some movers bring in some things and they tracked snow and dirt all over my house. Not only that, but I had been busy and dishes were all over the kitchen. The floor had grime and food waste everywhere. Clothes were upstairs, and downstairs laying in piles. I will spare you the rest, but you get the picture: this place was a disaster area unfit for human habitation. I was choking in air because all the grime was feeding parasitic life forms and their excretia. So, I ran through the craigslist ads in desperation. My problem was not just cleaning. I had a poorly organized house. And I can only thank God that I found Jaime. She came in and room-by-room re-organized my entire house. But she had a vision for re-organization from the beginning. She knew where everything needed to be and worked like lightning to put things right. Now, the next day, I am living in this townhouse the way I should: like a king with a well-tended castle. The air is fresh, the floors are clean, and I sat down last night and watched a DVD in comfort, thanks to Jaime’s ideas about re-arranging the whole house. If we assume that cleanliness is next to Godliness, then it’s really a shame that preachers are supposedly the stairway to god when it’s really people like Jaime. How can we give credit to doctors when the baseline for health is a clean environment. Why do drug companies and doctors make millions and a top-tier cleaner/organizer like Jaime works for pennies? Why can “interior decorators” charge 70-80/hour when Jaime decorates AND cleans at the same time? There is but one answer to these questions: book your time with Jaime and compensate her well for service that is worth nothing less than one million dollars.
Update: now the bad
now I sadly must report some serious issues with Jaime Johnson.
- unpunctuality
- completely forgetting about appointments, scheduling them for a day later than we confirmed in writing via email
- obvious chemical dependancy. The apparent chemicals are caffeine and tobacco.
- attempts to extort more money than was agreed upon in writing.
- clearly operating without a business license
- failed to provide receipts for service, even after asked.
- ignoring email requests to provide receipts, promising “I will get to them when I can” — and that was a month ago.
- harsh, harsh, self-righteous attitude, probably due to abuse in her younger years.
She is a very talented housekeeper. But overall, there are some glaring and uncomfortable imbalances in her personal life and some unacceptable drops in level of professionalism that I cannot tolerate.