# What would you do if you cleaner was trying to curse you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 22, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530 "2009-11-22T16:01:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/1 "2009-11-22T16:01:02Z")
Around six months ago I employed a new cleaner. She has been magnificent at the cleaning; however for around a month she has been surreptitiously trying to put a curse on me using folk magic. As I don’t believe in all that stuff I am not worried about the curse. But I can’t help but feel I should do something about this… at least have a word with her. On the other hand she is doing a wonderful job of cleaning and it isn’t up to me to pry into her private beliefs. Thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/2 "2009-11-22T16:02:45Z")
So, why is she trying to curse you? This doesn’t strike me as something people just go and do to random people. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/3 "2009-11-22T16:02:42Z")
How do you know it’s a curse, and not something else? ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/4 "2009-11-22T16:35:21Z")
Need more information. What exactly is she doing to make you think she’s cursing you with folk magic? Then perhaps the appropriate response can be ascertained. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/5 "2009-11-22T16:37:33Z")
If she’s really trying to curse you, you should fire her. Why employ a cleaner who harbors ill-will toward you? But then again, I think menial servants often resent their employers so. _shrugs_ ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/6 "2009-11-22T17:06:32Z")
I’d sic my pig, Noelle, on her. Is her name Carlotta, by any chance? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/7 "2009-11-22T17:18:45Z")
There is something about this thread right now that is cracking me up. Your cleaner is cursing you. 😛 What did you do? Have you been leaving skid marks, missing the toilet seat, hawking loogies into the kitchen sink… what? Have you considered putting a curse _back_ on her? You could make a little cloth doll dressed in a maid’s uniform and stick a pin through it’s tiny little wallet right in front of her. Or cut it’s little head off and stick it in her next pay envelope. You could really have fun with this. But I, for one, really want to know what you did to piss her off. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/8 "2009-11-22T17:30:08Z")
I’d get a new cleaner. If she’s be willing to curse you, she’d probably be willing to give your toothbrush a little toilet bowl tour. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/9 "2009-11-22T17:31:47Z")
If my Lysol can starts to chant ominously to me in an unknown language, yes I probably need to call an exorcist. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/10 "2009-11-22T19:02:42Z")
I wouldn’t want her “helping” her curses to work, so I’d be wary of having her continue to work for me. But you should make sure they are really curses before letting her go. ---
**Author:** ![StoutHearted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@StoutHearted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StoutHearted)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/11 "2009-11-22T19:35:10Z")
Whether you believe in curses or not, why would you keep her around? She sounds unbalanced. There are plenty other good cleaners who could use work. Also, I’m not clear how you know she’s cursing you in the first place. Is she waving a decapitated chicken at you? Did you uncover a voodoo doll of yourself among her things? ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/12 "2009-11-22T19:39:17Z")
Maybe it isn’t a curse at all, but is an aura? Sorry, I may have been playing too much Warcraft lately… ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/13 "2009-11-22T19:51:52Z")
You should seduce her. Is she hot? ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/14 "2009-11-22T20:02:05Z")
> [@Angry Lurker](#): > > What would you do if you cleaner was trying to curse you? Fire her crazy ass? ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/15 "2009-11-22T20:07:43Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > You should seduce her. Is she hot? Maybe she’s seducing him. You think your post was free will, but maybe you’re just dancing on the strings of her magic. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/16 "2009-11-22T20:11:03Z")
> [@Oregon\_sunshine](#): > > Need more information. What exactly is she doing to make you think she’s cursing you with folk magic? Then perhaps the appropriate response can be ascertained. Yes, inquiring minds want to know. How do you know she’s cursing you and not, say, trying to seduce you or purge your home of some unknown (to you, anyway) evil? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/17 "2009-11-22T20:14:42Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > I’d get a new cleaner. If she’s be willing to curse you, she’d probably be willing to give your toothbrush a little toilet bowl tour. Already thought of that - I take my toothbrush to work most days 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/18 "2009-11-22T20:18:58Z")
> [@Angry Lurker](#): > > Already thought of that - I take my toothbrush to work most days 🙂 There are a hundred other ways someone could screw with you if you let them into your home. Are you going to elaborate on why you think she’s cursing you, or are you just jerking us around? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/19 "2009-11-22T20:22:26Z")
I gotta subscribe to this puppy. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530/20 "2009-11-22T20:28:07Z")
Really, we need more info. Is she stealing your hair or nail clippings? Maybe your clothing? Have you found dead animals or mystic symbols writ’ in blood? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-if-you-cleaner-was-trying-to-curse-you/518530.md?page=2)