I Found My Housekeeper’s Business Instagram. What I Saw Shocked Me.

Good Job Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Yaraslau Mikheyeu/iStock/Getty Images Plus.  Good Job is Slate’s advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? Send it to Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir here . (It’s anonymous!) Dear Good Job, I hired someone to regularly clean my house for the first time in my life a few months ago. The person I picked is amazing–so thorough in her work, kind to my pets and kids, and charges a reasonable price. She also owns her own small cleaning business, and I feel good about knowing the full amount that I pay her goes to her. However, there’s one problem. Because she owns her own business, she also has social media accounts to show off her work … before and afters, and also short clips of her doing her job. Recently, I pulled up her Instagram in order to recommend her to a friend, and I discovered that my house is featured in some of the videos of her cleaning! It feels like a huge invasion of privacy, just on principle, to have my home featured online without my knowledge. But on the other hand—I feel for someone trying to
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