If she lives in Texas, paying by the hour is all wrong. Southerners help me out: how do you say "Can you clean my house for 30 dollars?" in Spanish?
I've never hired a cleaning service that didn't charge by the hour. But I'm pretty sure if I complained to the Mama-san, the girls would get their ass beat. Wait, wrong culture, same principle.
My sister is in the Houston area, so there are a lot of immigrants who do cheap work around. Actually, I have no idea if they are legal or illegal immigrants, or 2nd generation-ers who also speak Spanish, or what. It's not like she goes to Home Depot and picks a dude up, usually these women who do cleaning services are sort of contractors? They work for themselves and find work usually by their reputation and word of mouth by the people they clean for. They don't charge by hour officially, they usually eyeball your house and say they'll do it for 30, or 50, or whatever. They probably mentally figure how long it'll take and then charge their rate but that isn't how the conversation goes. Edit: Usually my sister can't keep cleaning ladies because she (and her daughter) knows how to wreck a house and they don't want to deal with clutter. They just want to do actual cleaning, which is fine. My sister is 38 and needs to learn to deal with her clutter herself like a grown up.
Shit, if you want to see a melting pot of paid by the hour timewasters go to the fucking DMV. I went to renew my DL last week and was turned away because I didn't have proper documentation stating what they already know, I've lived in the same place my entire life you fuckwads. The person that turned me away was Hispanic. Ah irony.
Oh GOD. The DMV. I don't think there is a local DMV anywhere that anyone is happy with. The one back home was filled with your typical slow fat white guys and sassy black ladies. The best way to get through was to come in at the very very end of the day. They don't take people after 4 or 4:30p (can't remember exactly), but once you are in the line, they have to service you before they close. They go from 6 hours of slow-mo to the fastest workers in the world. I almost had to get a Hawaii driver's license because I let my Alabama one expire and was afraid I wouldn't be able to renew by mail for an expired license, while also trying to get them to put my married name on there. So I tried to go the Hawaii route, and it was a complete disaster. Huge long lines, and when I finally got to ask the dude some questions, I found out that I'd have to completely redo my license, complete with written and driving test, and you have to make appointments for the driving test. And they were backed up 5 months. And if you wanted to walk in for it, they serviced walk in's once a week and so many people came that it was advised that you come in around 4am to make it at the head of the line. Sooo I renewed by mail for Alabama. I photocopied every single pertinent document I could think of (which never would have flown here, they always want originals), wrote them a message about how my husband was stationed out here, and mailed it all off. I had a paper temporary license in less than 3 weeks and a permanent plastic one a few weeks after that. Go Alabama.
Make sure you have a State issued copy of your Birth Certificate or you're shit out of luck. Another tip, go to the DMV's website, fill out and print the renewal form beforehand. And Juice not to worry, I moved out at 18 and have never looked back. Smartass.
Ill tell you what never to fucking do. Keep your social security card in your wallet. Then lose said wallet. You want to talk about a Kalfkaesque catch 22 of paper pushing bullshit. Even with the original carbon copy birth certificate they wouldn't let me get a new social security card without a state issued picture ID. They wouldn't let me get a drivers license without my social security card. I might be mincing some details but it was the most wasted few days of my life I have ever had.
It starting to get a little confusing. Are we cleaning nude immigrants? Are nude immigrants cleaning each other? Are they cleaning my house and then themselves? These are the important questions.
The Husband wants me to take my happy ass to the SS office and get my name legally changed. Seems like an epic, epic way to get angry at the world.
Are you really YOLO when your life is shared by an unknown amount of people that obviously have a long range of problems?
Tell him you were going to but then you got distracted sending him pictures of your ass. He will be understanding.
So wait, going back to this, not only won't they hire legal immigrants, but they won't hire American citizens if they weren't natural born? Wow. That's some impressive discrimination there.