All About Full-Time Maids
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Hi all,
I am currently having a Myanmar maid for 1 month. She is fresh in Singapore but has 2 years working experience as a maid in MEZO, India. She took care of 2 kids aged 1 and 3 till Jan this year. Ended her 2 years contract. Rested at home helping out with farming before coming to work in Singapore to earn money for her younger brothers school fees. She is the eldest in her family of 5 siblings.
She is for the past month, honest and hardworking with good initiative. Offered her afternoon rest but she kept asking me for work to do. She is a Presbyterian at home. She do not need to call home often thou I offered her. So far only requested from me once a week after arrival. Thereafter I offered her to call but she declined. She has no wish for off days and do not mind not having handphone as her wish is to earn money. Currently salary is $400 + $62 for 4 off days.
Her command of English is not good. However she is trying and her family actually emailed me a 400 page dictionary which I’ve printed out in small fonts. Have to talk to her slowly for the time being.
I have this problem as my previous maid (Myanmar) who has gone back last month to start her University could not get in as the term has started. On advice from her friend, she now wishes to come back to my family to work. I really couldn’t bear to send the current one back to the agency as she is really trying her best. At the same time, I would like to help the previous maid as she had taken good care of my 3 kids for 2 years.
She has good height and size but not fat at all. Fit is the word. Skin is tanned. She is 23 years old born 25 April 1991. Eldest child in a farming family.
Current maid’s loan was $2400 for 7 months. I am thinking of transferring her out. By time of transfer over, new employer would like have to put up $1600-$1200 for her loan.
Interested parties can arrange for viewing and interviewing her at my place. I personally think she is a nice girl. Will not lose patience on your kids nor being dishonest.
Do PM me for discussion or queries -
can wondering whether to change my pinoy maid. thinking ahead though i just renewed her contract this apr. renew contract le getting lazier…n my pils nt happy w her attitude…
if i tahan til end of this contract ie apr 2016, how do i change her? just send back to agency? den collect new maid thereafter? r we allowed to have overlap of maids?
what happens to my maid if i send her home? she nid to tk loan to come back to sin if she wana work here again? thx! -
liquidskye:
can wondering whether to change my pinoy maid. thinking ahead though i just renewed her contract this apr. renew contract le getting lazier...n my pils nt happy w her attitude...
if i tahan til end of this contract ie apr 2016, how do i change her? just send back to agency? den collect new maid thereafter? r we allowed to have overlap of maids?
what happens to my maid if i send her home? she nid to tk loan to come back to sin if she wana work here again? thx!
I have the same problem b4 . My renewed pinyo maid quarrel with my mum and kids . Give me black face when I talk nicely to her . Don't clean the kitten . Very oily , In the end , we decided to forfeit some $ on insurance and send her home . She wanted to go agency but we felt that we did not want others to suffer and also make her releaised not so easy to change employer . Nowsadays , maid thought very easy to change employer so after renew , all sorts of pattern . -
panickymum:
liquidskye:
can wondering whether to change my pinoy maid. thinking ahead though i just renewed her contract this apr. renew contract le getting lazier...n my pils nt happy w her attitude...
if i tahan til end of this contract ie apr 2016, how do i change her? just send back to agency? den collect new maid thereafter? r we allowed to have overlap of maids?
what happens to my maid if i send her home? she nid to tk loan to come back to sin if she wana work here again? thx!
I have the same problem b4 . My renewed pinyo maid quarrel with my mum and kids . Give me black face when I talk nicely to her . Don't clean the kitten . Very oily , In the end , we decided to forfeit some $ on insurance and send her home . She wanted to go agency but we felt that we did not want others to suffer and also make her releaised not so easy to change employer . Nowsadays , maid thought very easy to change employer so after renew , all sorts of pattern .
So if i send her home, i will just need to bear her airfare for sending her back right? how long before her flight then u tell her u sending her back ah? i tink some of my mil's panaroid thinking abt maid rub off on me. now im scared she wil ki siao and harm my kids if i tell her im sending her back instead of to another employer.
kns lo. her contract finished in apr... but she said she go for home leave this dec cos she wana spend xmas with family. then say kids skl reopen wana spend 5 and 6 jan with her. at first she tell me she ok to go back only 10 days, so i plan for 13 day, then now she count say want 15 day... kns. everythg oso she say. lunz... i just need a mid nov onwards my dd1 go to cc... if everythg ok with the cc... once dd2 reach 18m in a years time... i will pack her off... :mad: :mad: :mad: -
liquidskye:
panickymum:
[quote=\"liquidskye\"]can wondering whether to change my pinoy maid. thinking ahead though i just renewed her contract this apr. renew contract le getting lazier...n my pils nt happy w her attitude...
if i tahan til end of this contract ie apr 2016, how do i change her? just send back to agency? den collect new maid thereafter? r we allowed to have overlap of maids?
what happens to my maid if i send her home? she nid to tk loan to come back to sin if she wana work here again? thx!
I have the same problem b4 . My renewed pinyo maid quarrel with my mum and kids . Give me black face when I talk nicely to her . Don't clean the kitten . Very oily , In the end , we decided to forfeit some $ on insurance and send her home . She wanted to go agency but we felt that we did not want others to suffer and also make her releaised not so easy to change employer . Nowsadays , maid thought very easy to change employer so after renew , all sorts of pattern .
So if i send her home, i will just need to bear her airfare for sending her back right? how long before her flight then u tell her u sending her back ah? i tink some of my mil's panaroid thinking abt maid rub off on me. now im scared she wil ki siao and harm my kids if i tell her im sending her back instead of to another employer.
kns lo. her contract finished in apr... but she said she go for home leave this dec cos she wana spend xmas with family. then say kids skl reopen wana spend 5 and 6 jan with her. at first she tell me she ok to go back only 10 days, so i plan for 13 day, then now she count say want 15 day... kns. everythg oso she say. lunz... i just need a mid nov onwards my dd1 go to cc... if everythg ok with the cc... once dd2 reach 18m in a years time... i will pack her off... :mad: :mad: :mad:[/quote]
Wow ! She is very demanding . If I were you , I will Send her back this December and she can spend with her family till she likes . I will get a new maid .since parents in law also not happy why need to tahan her for another year ? This is just my opinon .
Yes , you only need to buy her one way ticket . -
Actually u can tell her in the morning , if her flight in the afternoon . Agency got runner that can send her to airport if u think she will run away . I think abt $50 . Cancel her work permit and inform mom after u get the ticket
Some maids are good . I changed a new , more mature maid . She has good attitude which I like . Although she is not good in cooking and sometimes she forgets stuff but she is very hardworking and willing to learn . -
i scared new maid cannot handle my kids… sighs… actually… this maid v gd with my kids, she cares for them. just damn attitude. grrr…
noob qtn, if i cancel her WP on 1 Dec and send her back. whens the earliest i can get a new maid? cos new maids need to wait for 4-6 wks depending on availabiity? v scared of getting maids that are worst off then the current ones. hai. sometimes i tink i worry too much -
Dear all,
I’m so sad and headache that I have employed 5 maids for 1 year plus. All of them gave me so much problems, I think i’m really very unlucky. My household have DH, 2 DS age of 8 yrs & 2 yrs, my mum and me. My maid is mainly work on housework cleaning and cooking. Since my 2yrs old son from baby till now is take care and night feeding by my mum. My maid doesn’t need to wake up at mid-night at all.
1st maid: Fresh 23 yrs old maid from Indo, every day cry at my house. Whenever my mum treat her nice, she’ll start to cry. When my mum teach her do thing without scolding her, she also cry. So i ask her why keep crying, she said my mum treat her very good and it’s like her mother. At night she even cry in the room and hugging her blanket that her mother gave to her. She miss her mother alot. Around 3 weeks later she really breakdown and keep saying she miss her mother and want to go back Indo. In the end i return her back to agent.
2nd maid: 7 years experience maid from Indo. This maid 1st 3 months works well but when come to 4th month she’s totally changed. Keep don’t clean my house properly, all clothes didn’t dry well, keep it and fold. So all our clothes smelly. Cooking also didn’t cook properly, sometime over cook or not cook. Perviously I have no such problem. At her 5th months I talk to her, she told me that she still prefer to take care old people and don’t like to handle kids. I told her she don’t need to handle co’s my mum is taking care. Only she need to watch out my baby when my mum bath, toilet and taking meal. It’s just a short time, it’s won’t take more than 30 mins. Somemore go toilet is just 5 to 10 mins thing. So doesn’t really need to take care much too. In the end I also transfer her back to agent co’s she keep insist to transfer.
3rd Maid: 5 yrs experience Filipino. She have weekly off too. When i interview her face to face that time, I told her she needs to cook lunch and dinner and usually weekend will have diner out. But after she work for 3 months she told me that she want to transfer co’s she don’t like to do cooking and want more salary. I’m paying her $600 per month and she expect higher salary that just work for me 3 months. Same, I send her back to agent.
4th Maid: 7 months transfer maid, also from Indo. This one even more drama. She search my room rubbish bin and take my DH credit card statement. Chanting on a paper with my name and my mum full name. She sms all our members name back home and give her mother to chanting on all the members. I call to her agent and the agent ask her why she take our bank statement and search my mum wallet and get my mum name from the NRIC. She didn’t reply the agent, she just keep slient. So the agent ask us to report police and send her back home. In the end, i reported police and the agent send her back Indo.
5th Maid: Present maid with 4 yrs experience, she’d from Myanmar. When i interview her face to face and go thru her biodata. she said she know how to do everything and can cook co’s she learn her the pervious Ah ma. Now the maid is with me for 5 mths but create alot of trouble for me. 1st 3 months plus very good. Can cook well, do housework very clean, clothing dry and well kept…etc. When come to 4th months, can’t cook, keep saying no time to do this and that, clothes start to become smelly. I didn’t add on any housework for her or no additional member. My house is just 5 room flat size. Now cooking the soup until no taste, have medicine taste…i still realize that recently she didn’t drink the soup. I ask her why she didn’t drink the soup, she said she’s too full so can’t drink it but 1st 3 months plus she did drink it. Noodle spoilt still wash it and cook it for my elder son to eat, luckily my mum saw it and stop my son. If my mum busy handling my 2 yrs old son and didn’t realize she cook spoilt noodle, what will happen to my elder son. I ask her does she know the noodle is spoilt, she said yes and she still wash many times until no smell. Faint!!! I even ask her, if the food is spoilt will she cook for herself to eat, she repiled as NO. Since she know once food is spoilt can’t be eaten than why she still cook for my son. I told her floor mat keep for 2 to 3 days and use machine wash but if the dirty floor mat is wet, must let it air dry then put it aside. She never listen, always keep it aside when it’s wet too. So always make till the yard very smelly. I told her, if she can’t remember what i said just write it down but she refuse. She told me that she’s a experience maid so know what should be done and souldn’t done. She have a very high pride and won’t accept what we tell her. Till now she keep doing on her own way. Recently she keep telling me to transfer her back to agent. Oh no, what should I do… -
liquidskye:
I am once like that . U are not alone . Worry till the day I send my ex maid off . Actually , I went to look for new maid about 2 months before hand and the when the agency told me when I can get the maid then I send her off . I send off my ex maid in the afternoon and pick my new maid in the evening .i scared new maid cannot handle my kids... sighs... actually... this maid v gd with my kids, she cares for them. just damn attitude. grrr...
noob qtn, if i cancel her WP on 1 Dec and send her back. whens the earliest i can get a new maid? cos new maids need to wait for 4-6 wks depending on availabiity? v scared of getting maids that are worst off then the current ones. hai. sometimes i tink i worry too much
Whether can get good maid really hard to say . It depends on luck .
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