Myanmar maids

[vfong1]

hi, anyone train their burmese maid to speak mandarin?

[Viene]

Hi fcmaid…yes, language can be trained, but I am a working mother, 2 kids under age 5 at home with maid alone during day time.

Communication is already an issue, how to have a good chat with her? :<

[fcmaid]

Viene:

Hi fcmaid...yes, language can be trained, but I am a working mother, 2 kids under age 5 at home with maid alone during day time.

Communication is already an issue, how to have a good chat with her? :<

If your kids can speak to her, your maid should be able to pick up until their level at least.

My own personal maid can speak english, mandarin and hokkien.

My family speaks to her in different languages so she is able to pick it up.

Sometimes they are conscious of speaking and creating a certain fear that they might be ridicule because of the words they wrongly uses.

[fcmaid]

A little encouragement will go a long way

[doryfish]

Hi,


I need some advice. I have a burmese maid finishing contract in July this year. She is super forgetful, communication still a problem after 2 years and I have to monitor her closely although I am a FTWM. She had made a lot of mistakes repeatedly but we still give her a chance to learn. She does not seems to improve much till now. However, she wish to continue contract with us and request for higher pay. She even want advance 2 months of salary if we allow her to go for home leave. I am now thinking whether to renew her contract with us. Headache…

[Coolkidsrock2]

You have no recourse if she does not return. My maid cannot write home (though we cannot connect to the phones of her family) because she does not even know her full address.


My previous maid who is serious about renewing contract after her break allowed me to hold on to part of her monies in Singapore.

Your maid will consider herself as "experienced" regardless of work performance and will feel entitled to a higher pay. This will be between yourself and the maid.

My maid is very forgetful and slow too. As my kids are older, I close both my eyes, she only needs to do housekeeping. Even cooking is done by my mum. If need be, am prepared to cater food. We are already eating out during the weekends to work around her weaknesses.

[fcmaid]

Of course, there are some who are naturally slow.


As for forgetfulness, you can always get your maid to make a check list and list down the things that she needs to do. Some are simply giving excuses and doing it slowly. However, if any rectification needs to be done, it has to be done early

[piyobaby]

Mine is with me for close to 2 months now, 1st month very good in house chores but 2nd mth started cutting corners. I kept quiet and monitored so she assumed that I did not find out. Seriously I did not purposely do any spot check but unfortunately for her out of coincidence I found out about the chores she did not do well which are really obvious. Eg. Grim built up on both stainless less stove and induction cooker, toys seem under the couch (meant she did not sweep or mop underneath), spoilt my clothings but still iron and kept quiet, schedule of chores not followed. :frustrated:


I spoke to her the other day and asked her to repeat the instructions I have got her to write down in her notebook and she is \"smart\" to skip a few of them. She tried to find ridiculous excuses for the shortfall but I told her off in a nice way for her to buck up. As expected she showed her black face the next day, not setting table, not helping wif the kids and \"worked very hard\" to finish all her undone chores.

I am prepared that she will chut more patterns after her loan is up and after she go for her off days. By the way her English is still atrocious despite repeated encouragement to speak more thus learn more and I start to suspect she is pretending since we have caught her singing songs to cartoons & toys.

[fcmaid]

If the maid is starting to cut corners, just ask her to repeat her specific chore until she get it right. Once you allow her to get away with it, it will happen again and again and forever again. Just need to make sure she understands your quality chores.

[piyobaby]

We are trying to get her to rectify the sloppy chores as much as we can though it can be quite impossible to check on her duties all the time. It’s really now or never, so I rather put up with her expected black face but still get her to do it properly. I even demonstrated myself fo show her how to do it. I can’t imagine closing one eye now, by 6mths later, it will be horrible.