All About Full-Time Maids
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I provide my maids with Ribena. They let me know when finished. So far so good. No medical problems.
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3+ weeks since my 7.5yrs helper left. it was only after she left then I realised I am really mean to her. we do not ill treat her but I forget that she is a person with feelings. with that, I live w a guilt and my girl lives with a fond remembrance of her best auntie who look after her for 6yrs. she wrote regularly to her and I told her she can continue doing so, until she dun feel she wanna to. we also sent a few sms to her. she had her breast surgery and is recovering w weekly followup. but I was quite surprised that she said her parents are paying for the medical checkups. thought she would have saved some all through the years? hb said most likely used up by her family all the years, beside the house she built and the lands she bought
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I would like to highlight to you not to hire this pinoy maid from Happy Home Agency at Lucky Plaza. Her name is Ms Flora Marilou Parica and she is 48 year old this year 2016. She is Filipino maid who is working in SIN for the past 10 years. She looks pleasant and kind looking but her attitude sucks. She steals employer WIFI password by erasing the password using the nail polisher remover to erase the password written in the router (which I have covered the password text using a black permanent marker). While she is cooking dinner for family, she will pick up her handphone which is kept in her pocket all the times and look at her sms sent by her pinoy friends and cook dinner meals at same time. She also talked on the handphone while feeding my baby when we are working outside as no eldery at home.
She is a very stubborn maid who refuses to follow instructions given by employers and raise her voice loudly at us when we tell her not to use her handphone daytime when baby is sleeping. She is lazy bum who shows black face when you ask her to do housework after she comes back from her weekly Sunday Off. She also takes revenge on your house by damaging your window locks and scratch your sink with her knife if she is not happy that you ask her to do extra housework like wash baby clothes by hand if baby poo stained on the baby clothes or wash car. Please do not hire this pinoy maid marilou who is old and wear sexy clothes on her offday. She also like to ask for salary advance from you before her actual payday and she is unhappy when you forgets to pay her when she asks for salary advance. Good for nothing pinoy maid Marilou who does not respect her employer by raising her voice at us and her maid agent said that she is just outspoken maid who is only suitable to work for Expatriate family. She can talk on the phone from 10.30pm till 1am at night when we allow her to finish work early and get some rest at night. Instead she talked on her handphone at night till 1am as she locked the room which we give her a room for privacy. She never respects her employer and always disobey employer instructions and she took revenge again by pouring hot water over the cap of the milk container to store baby milk powder as she claim she always does in her previous employers house… -
This pinoy maid marilou used to work for PAKISTAN Expat family as her sir is working fulltime and her mdm is a housewife at home with a 3 year old boy. She also likes to make comparison that her Expat employer gives her freedom to have WIFI access and we Chinese family do not give her WIFI access. But during her face to face interview at her maid agency as she is a transfer maid then, she said she only use handphone at night and not use phone daytime and never talk about free WIFI access during interview. She tells a big lie that she is a discipline maid who don’t use handphone daytime and I quarrel with her many times over her bad attitude and she is not competent in her housework and cleaning/mopping of floor. She is quite lazy in her work as she does not sweep or mop the floor below the tables and sofa. She is only good in using handphone and eat snake.(very experienced maid in eating snake INDEED!!)
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I will like to warn the family who took our previous maid as transfer maid with effect from 9 March 2016. Her name is maricar. Maricar requested to transfer at the end of her two year contract and we gladly allowed her to as we also planned to change maid as we do not think she is suitable to take care of kids. To our horror, two days after we transferred, we found her room infested with bed bugs, one corner whic has our clothes has bed bugs and bed bugs eggs. We also found bed bugs in maricar pillow, bed, mattress and even the curtain in her room! We do not want the new employer to suffer and hence, thought we send this message to warn the new employer. Beware!
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Just want to rant...
My maid of 7 mths a lot of bad points about her:
-not Thorough in cleaning
-no intiative despite the fact she is ex-sin for 4yrs, always need to ask her to do cleaning properly
-hands always glued to the phone either texting, watch YouTube, facebooking even when feeding my baby food
-several unreasonable requests including using my kitchen to cook for her friends/sisters using her working day, this happen for 3 times, each time making my kitchen so oily and I've to clean it myself in the end; wanted to go watch new year eve fireworks/countdown;she wanted to go back during this hari Raya despite the contract stating she will only have 2weeks home leave after 2 years with me.
-sleep very late, caught her watching her Hp till late 1, 2am
-fed my baby too much milk when baby was only 2 mths old though I reminded her need to feed only certain amount by looking at the marking in ML on the bottle. So sad and heart pain my baby had ear infection due to vomitting of milk, and the milk flow into the her ear causing bacteria infection
-need constant reminders or she is unable to perform her tasks according to my instruction
-I am paying her $550 and additional $100 as she goes over to my in law place with my baby and also help do the housework there during weekday since no one is at our home and I do not want to leave baby alone with her.
She is off every Sunday, and if she works, we will compensate her $50 which my agent told me its abit too much but my husband said never mind. Sighs
- wear spaghetti strap at bed time, but she covered herself with a towel if she walked around at night.. Friend and Aunty saw and told me should tell her off especially we have man at home. I haven't done so though. Sighs
-quite big sized, that time was desperate to get a maid after I gave birth to no. 3, and since agent said she is good and have experience with babies, I employed her lo.
-have to bring her to make her passport when she was 3 mths with us. And she asked me to pay for her passport though agent told me employer shouldn't bear the costs since she is not even 2 years with us. Lucky she is indon and the passport costs $30 to renew for 5 years.
-didn't realize her work permit was only valid for 6 mths that time, actually need to pay $30 to renew
-others to be continued
Good points are she is humble, kind and treat the kids well, will do the work without complaints just that it's not up to my standard. Cooking is average.
I just hope the time will pass faster and I can send my baby to the childcare soon, and the maid contract is 18 mths more to go from now. I don't want a maid anymore and no more maid problems. I am not sure how long my patience is going to last...hahahaha
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hi purpleflower,
rants aside…if she were to leave, would you miss her work? thing is that she is essentially a stranger living in our house - her habits, her ways are foreign to us as ours is to hers.
My ex-maids weren’t very clean either and all they were supposed to do is to clean the house. baby they don’t need to take care (feeding, bathing, changing included), at tops they play with babies or watch while baby is playing. Mine didn’t even have to cook! A pleasant surprise was when my last helper (Myanmar) taught DS2 spelling while I was at work…she was way more patient than me.
That she is humble (dun chut pattern, dun show black face) I think is a great bonus and yours can even cook! Try to close some eyes except where non-nego (eg baby safety). Just remember what’s important at the end of the day. For me, it was that someone help with the cleaning so my mum can focus on the kids. -
Hi hquek,
Yes already closing both eyes on many occasions. Her main job which I have also emphasize to her is to take care of the baby, housework and anything else is secondary. Sometimes these maids just need to be reminded that they aren’t here for holiday and is a stayin helper. What I can’t stand the most is she is always glue to the phone no matter what time of the day. Need to also be firm and strict with her or she think I can give in to whatever requests. i just cannot reconcile why she make those requests.
To answer your question, I will not miss her. Lol so once my LO is ready to go to cc, I will not want a maid anymore since my older ones can take care of themselves. -
wow…why are you paying her $50 a day for working on her off day? The most she should get is $20-$25 based on her pay. which means if she decides not to go for any off days in a month, she will get additional $200! and based on what you say about her being on the phone all the time and not doing a clean job, you are being very nice to her…
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it’s not surprising that she’s glued to the phone. I was told many times by other FTWMs that their maids cook and talk at the same time…oftentimes I see maids chatting with each other, or on the phone when they are walking on the road.
just endure, time will fly very fast.
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