All About Full-Time Maids
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peapot:
hi everyone, how much do you give your maids for ang pow? For a new maid, my hubby gave $20. I thought it was too much because within this one month, she broke my plate, my clock, refrigerator door. I thought $4 was good enough since I didn't even deduct her salary for the damage she's done which of course we all know the garment says cannot deduct blah...blah...This is also one of the main reason why I only have one kid. No support from anyone and the garment wants more Tiger babies!!????
Ha.ha wow $20 is quite a lot to be given to a maid. Most agents said try not to be too nice to the maid is not they would 爬到你头上。
Must have Master & Servant clear distinction. Therefore must listen Master & Servant sing by Depeche mode. :celebrate: -
I think $20 is nothing if the maid had been with you for long because my old maid each receives $100 during CNY from us. But a new maid who just came simply don’t deserve that $20 yet. When we just joined a company for the first month, we also don’t have bonus until we worked longer. Its my hubby who gave without telling me. Sigh! Men!!!
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Btw, how do you say "kian" in English?? Kian is hokkien version of trying to skive or trying to escape or trying to avoid doing something you don’t like.
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peapot:
Btw, how do you say \"kian\" in English?? Kian is hokkien version of trying to skive or trying to escape or trying to avoid doing something you don't like.
peapot dear, is she stressing you out so much that you've got the answer there in bold yourself?
Put simply, I'd tell her:\"just because you don't like to do something means you can avoid doing it. You need to do this because....<give>, so please do it now.\"
After she's done....\"good, now must remember to do it <state>. Don't let ma'm have to remind you ah!\"
If she's zi dong, would do it. But don't rely on it too much. Will need periodic reminder!
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I used to give my new maids $30.
But since this year, so many people came to my house continuously from eve to 2nd day of CNY, and my maid cooked for them, I gave her $50. -
We gave our maid $50. We also gave her $50 for x’mas. She’s been with us a bit over 1 year so these are kind of like a year-end bonus for her.
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I used to give my old maid $200 for CNY as ang pow. Then one year, she was really naughty, so I gave her only $20. She gave me long face for a whole year. That’s the year we started to have conflict and she left after 7 years. Hm… this ang pow thingy is sensitive and big issue to them. If you end up giving too big an ang pow, you set an expectation that might backfire.
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We give her $200 angpow. She gets a 13th mth bonus as well.
Lately, we’ve been having quite a lot of conflicts, sigh. Her old problem of "I didn’t do it." I told her repeatedly - I don’t care if she didn’t do it, just don’t do it again. The most recent incident - leaving food uncovered in the fridge. That’s just so @#$%. First time, she "didn’t do it". Second time, bopian, got to admit unwillingly, which I really don’t care about. Just don’t do it again lor!!! :x :x -
Blobbi:
I think all the maids have the same kind of attitude. They like to use the words like \"I forget\", \"Dunno\" & \"I didn't do it\". And sometime can give you innocent look like you are blaming the wrong person...We give her $200 angpow. She gets a 13th mth bonus as well.
Lately, we've been having quite a lot of conflicts, sigh. Her old problem of \"I didn't do it.\" I told her repeatedly - I don't care if she didn't do it, just don't do it again. The most recent incident - leaving food uncovered in the fridge. That's just so @#$%. First time, she \"didn't do it\". Second time, bopian, got to admit unwillingly, which I really don't care about. Just don't do it again lor!!! :x :x
My maid told me that she forget, I will tell her that \"I will forget your salary.\"
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Blobbi, your maid must be nuts!! Got BIG angpow and bonus still want to behave this way. That’s why I don’t understand maid’s mentality. Same for my maid, small house and no one at home also a problem for her.
Andaiz, what I meant was, is there an English word to replace "kian"?
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