We’ve all heard the saucy stories of Maids going the extra mile for their one off cleaning money. "I was just bending over to clean the kitchen floor when my boss walked in wearing only a towel...." While this is the sort of thing that gets us through long, boring days at the office, the reality is something quite different. Rather than taking part in the parties of their rich and famous employers, home cleaning professionals usually end up taking care of the mess left over afterward. The results are often a combination of the horrific and the hilarious, and we’ve included one such example for you here. So before you make a pass at the petite Polish cleaner that comes to do the dusting every Thursday, think twice about it, and consider reading on to find out what it is that maids really do for their money.

On the Monday morning after what looked like a very hard-partying weekend at the Notting Hill townhouse of her hedge fund manager employer, one cleaner was greeted with a saucy scene indeed. Reminiscent of Bill Clinton and the stained blue dress scandal, this house cleaner found not one, not two, not even three, but four full sets of ladies undergarments (complete with corsets, tights and suspenders) littered throughout the home of her banker boss. Lucky guy... but how did they get there? After sending away the collaterally damaged lingerie to the dry cleaners, our maid proceeded to take care of the dusting, focusing most of her cleaning energies on the white powder that was covering the dining room set, kitchen counter and various bedside tables. This was an interesting discovery no doubt, but still lacking any definite explanation for the discarded lingerie. Straying into the office to straighten things up, the maid found the source of lingerie and white powder alike: a business card for "MAYA luxury escorts" advertising "discreet, pleasure-driven consultations for high-class customers". Finally, the mystery was solved, not that it took a great deal of detective work to do so: most domestic cleaners in London are familiar with this kind of debauchery and wouldn’t have much trouble in figuring it out.

Our particular cleaner reported that it was very difficult to keep a straight face and look her employer in the eye after the whole cocaine escort scandal went down. Gentlemen, if you’re reading, try to have the sense to file the escort company business card with your other unmentionables rather than leave it lie around: unless you’re trying to send your lady maid a message of course.