All About Full-Time Maids
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hquek:
Wah the wash cup one ulitmate!talk about washing cups.... Once my ex-maid washed milk bottle and put it to dry. When milk time, I prepared the water and found it suprisingly foamy....our friend didn't rinse properly...wah lau eh.
Asked her if she would drink from this and she told me \"no\".....she got an earful from me.
As for creased clothes, I will show her and tell her to iron again. My hubby theory is that if she repeat it enough, she'll know to do it right next time.
I always notice my clothes are not ironed properly when I want to wear them. But may think about asking her to re-do it until she gets it right. That's a good idea. -
Sometimes scold, we get angrier. I quite agree with his theory lah…ask them to repeat enough times (whether it’s clean floor or iron clothes) - they should either learn to do it right, or must have amazing patience to keep redoing.
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My maid also has terrible laundry habits .. the worst thing is not just wrinkled clothes, it's white items become blue, grey highlighted in red, pink turned blue, so on . . . :x
She spent so much time ironing and when she puts them in the wardrobe, she simply shafts it in instead of dividing a space to fit it in nicely and smoothing it downwards and the nice item becomes wrinkled. OK, my wardrobe is bursting but still ... it can be done better
Her previous employer used to tell her \"my this dress, very very expensive, you wash, better be careful, it's $50!\". Then i have to warn my maid ... if that definition is expensive, then she has to be lots more careful as my many dresses mostly from US or Paris cost close to $500. :rotflmao: After she seriously damaged my DH's fav 2 shirts and 1 tie within the week (>$600), I decided to go on the cheap when I shop from now on.
I never told her I'll deduct her pay ... our anguished face and foul mood is enough torture to her! haha -
hi blurqueen,
Have to teach them to separate colours from whites lah…that’s the most secure way. Although once my maid managed to dye my kid’s (white) clothes reddish. Apparently when hanging out to dry, the red coloured item managed to ‘touch’ the white one…wind blow so the 2 pieces came into contact, and voila! I think if suay boh pian.
Yup. my hubby bought a couple of shirts we class as expensive…he was in a painful dilemma if to let the maid wash it. -
hquek:
We did teach her to sep the colours but still no idea why my clothings still get stained. Many times, DH's wet golf clothes simply gets dumped on top n it bleeds right downwards. I also think the water splashes here and there could be the culprit. I recently bought a *blink blink* top, but she stained it somehow and so she washed and iron and washed and iron ... god knows how many times .... and i got pissed, took it from laundry room, only to realise that the blouse which i never got to wear yet ... had been washed till it lost it's shape and the *blinks* got melted and dropped off! I handed to her and told her she can it but she said \"no want, got *blink blink*\" she doesn't like it! :stupid: asked me to use as home tee instead!!! :clubmyself:hi blurqueen,
Have to teach them to separate colours from whites lah....that's the most secure way. Although once my maid managed to dye my kid's (white) clothes reddish. Apparently when hanging out to dry, the red coloured item managed to 'touch' the white one....wind blow so the 2 pieces came into contact, and voila! I think if suay boh pian.
Yup. my hubby bought a couple of shirts we class as expensive....he was in a painful dilemma if to let the maid wash it. -
blurqueen:
I handed to her and told her she can it but she said \"no want, got *blink blink*\" she doesn't like it! :stupid: asked me to use as home tee instead!!! :clubmyself:
Woah, still hiam....your maid also quite cartoon. -
hquek:
Woah, still hiam....your maid also quite cartoon.
yes, this maid very cartoon, so tomboy that i could hardly believe a girl like this could exist! 1st time in her life, i bought and made her wear a dress during CNY. haha .... told her she can wear her jeans under it since she refused to step out of house in it alone :torchme: she also refused to wear another dress mom got her even though we gave her a pretty cardigan to \"cover-up\". She also refused to accept pink or bright coloured items from me as she can't stand them :rotflmao: -
Hi madinked: Since you have been kind to her previously, for this episode tell her the amount the juicer has cost you. This episode let her go, since it is out of concern that she wants to wash it clean.
Warn her that next time if she breaks or spoils any other things, she has to either pay or buy you a similar one.
Usually for expensive clothes, i usually hand wash and iron it myself, especially when it is still new, or send to dry cleaner. Anyway i don't have many delicate clothes.
My microwave oven is also the very basic type, non digital type. So even if spoil, won't feel so heartache. Most of my plates are stainless steel, so drop also never mind, can use it for heating in conventional oven, steaming, eating from it. -
Just to share …I used to have full-time stay-in maids for 1.5 yrs. After which I call it quits and am "maid-less". It’s abit tiring but I did not regret the decision.
My 1st maid was a gd cook and fast learner. I’d say she is a all-rounder. For some clueless reasons, she claimed we didn’t like her and decided to quit??? The 2nd one was very hardworking and was tip-top in respect of cleaning. A little slow but loyal. On the grounds of boredom and loneliness (kids goes to full-day CC), she quit (but susbequently regretted). The 3rd and last one came and requested to go home after 3 days, saying that she missed home. I gave up after that as these maid issues caused me more problems than peace of mind I expect to have by entrusting them with the routine household matters.
Maids are also human like any one of us and we respect them for leaving home/family to work with us. For us, we don’t even let them to wash our car as they are not supposed to. But to a certain extent, it appears that some of them have forgotten the purpose of them coming to work. Some friends even related that their maids resort to abusing the kids even tho one parent is a SAHM. I also witnessed maid parking the ah-mah at food court while she speaks continuously on the mobile and hanging out with the male foodcourt helper. So parents, do chit-chat with your kids and elderly periodically to check.
Having said the above, I must say that there are still good maids around. But when you decide to hire one, be prepared with the unavoidable related issues. -
In any case, my maid now wants us to send her back home.
I am very open person so I chose to talk to her just now. I asked her she is being so slipshod when herd I am trying my best to be a good employer. I said I may not be the best but I am not mean to her too. I asked her if there is anything which she is particularly bring unahppy or upset about. That’s when she told mr she wants to go back to agency after the loan. She quoted missing her sons (she is divorcee). I doubt so cause she told m mum once she wanted to change employer because she prefers families with school going children so that she can have more alone time I guess since I am sahm. I believe she is just using her sons as excuse to change employer.
Whatever. We have expected her to want to leave ever since my mum told us that.
We must pay for her air ticket, right?
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