All About Full-Time Maids

[peapot]

Come to think about it, do you think maid will add strange things in our food if we have treated them nicely in the first place? I heard some cases where the maid do it because they want to cast spell??!!

[Blissfulmum]

peapot:

Oh wow! Blissfulmum, I hope you have better luck with this new maid. My current indo maid is also ex-sin 4 years. She is a gem. I don't even have a chance to raise my voice during these 2 months she is with me. That's how good she is. So, you will be lucky. One cannot be unlucky all the time. The only thing is I let her pray. Other than that, everything that she does I have checked and realised she's done it before I could even tell her. If a maid is 80% good, I consider myself very lucky. However we wouldn't know till the end do we?


Next time try to get an agent that accepts P.D cheques. Incase the maid turns out like crap at least you have one less thing to worry about, Money!

I have learnt my lesson when I got my previous crazy Myanmar maid. My current maid agency takes only P.D cheques. So, why not? I've got nothing to lose.

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Thanks Peapot for your well wishes. I really need that a lot a lot...I really wished mine would turn out well too.

Agt had just confirm the collection - finally... and my \"maid management\" days will begins.

I am not sure abt your 2nd post - if we treat them well, will they put stuff in our food?? hmmm.....DH always complained that I treated my maids too well... so much so that they will take me for granted - and it's TESTED and PROVEN.

Many pple will learnt from experience, but too bad for me - cos I NEVER learn from mistakes. Each time I told myself to be less emotional, but everytime when the maid comes.. I forgot abt my own rules.. ahhahaahah... LOL ... so bottom line is, i really need someone geniue.

My agt said, she doesn't eat pork but she doesn't pray or fast wor... but she needs 2 off days a month for personal development, learning computer and english at Indonesia Embassy - and I am all ready to support that. I also wished that she could have a better life in the future. Even my last Myanmar maid? I am all ready to send her for english classes, cooking classes at CC.. but she didn't stay long enough to enjoy that lor.. too bad.

I just found out that my agent is also in this forum and she is probably reading this now. I wish i really wish that this maid will turn out to be someone whom you think she is and that's why you have strongly recommended her to me and that I don't need your after sales service within the next 18 months. Fingers crossed to both of us

To all mommies and daddies out there... I will let u know . .. eventually, if everything turns out well or not, cos I've promised my agent that I will give her referrals if alls well.

Pray for me

[moonee]

Hi blissful mum, Altho I had a real bad experience with d katong branch, u need not be scared. The agency is legally registered. I m quite surprise to hear dat the bkt timah brunch is kind of run down. the katong branch is quite decent, just like any other agency. Its not the maid im angry with its the so called older guy in charge, neither am I unhappy with the young svs adviser as he take instructions frm the so called boss. Lucky u did not deal with him. Well its when trouble comes then he gets all irrational. Hes a lousy business man and uses the MOM laws to his advantage, so check yr contract and if u find any thing thats not in yr favour then tell them to delete or amend.The guy in charge think we are all fools and can b taken for a ride. Too bad I got my lawyer to advise and act should he play nasty. Anyway Ive never come across a idiot like him who is selfish, money grabbing, inconsiderate and goes back on his word. Iuse to c some current maids hanging around with the girls they introduced there (doing sidelines) my maids contact got a cut of 200 for every successful maid brought in. Its only when trouble comes then we know whether the agents good. I think u should be ok as its the maid that is yr concern now. Check her passfport that its not expiring.

Btw, have they introduced Savings for the maid. If no , prepare one and let them sign, my maid frm them complained about having no savings stated in her salary slip. What made them delay yr maid? dnt tell me after u selected her someone else was willing to pay a higher price…ha ha, they did that to me. I dnt feel good when u mention u didnt hear frm them regarding the stated date of arrival. Oh yes, I realise i only hear frm them real fast when I have nt confirmed my maid, ah, thats when u will hear frm them asking u whether u hv considered and wish to confirm the maid. i remember I had to call them to chec if my maid s in. , she was and they didnt call me for two days till i called. So my impression is they are just order takers. (at katong ) at least…

[moonee]

Hi , I have still not selected my agent cos Ive been caught up with house work etc… Initially I thot of using my relatives agent but realise they are taking frm some other source for Mynmar helpers n to date they dnt have any christian biodatas, i may hve to settle for one that is a non christian. I was wondering whether any one here know of any agent that deals directly with the mynmars and bring them to spore.

I read in the advert some two yrs bac of an agent called Tailor made who specialise in MYnmars, I dnt know if they r still around, any one know of them and whether they r still functioning?.

[shine_fs]

Did any1 of your maid keeps her fingernails and fingers/toes' skin?


Last night I found out that my maid kept her fingernails and fingers/toes' skin :!: I was so :x cos is unhygienic.

I asked her why she kept it. Her replied was she don't want to leave any thing from her \"body\" in Singapore. So she wanted to keep till she return to her home town....I was going crazy.....

Can some1 tell me what should I do to her? Send her back to agent and let them educate her or buy ticket after she pay the loan(another 2 mths to go). :?:

Some ppl tell me tat she is using those things to make spell on us or cook for us to eat. What you gals think :?

[hquek]

shine_fs:

Did any1 of your maid keeps her fingernails and fingers/toes' skin?

Don't know, and I don't think I want to know :!: :!:

shine_fs:

I asked her why she kept it. Her replied was she don't want to leave any thing from her \"body\" in Singapore. So she wanted to keep till she return to her home town

I just heard over the radio that North Koreans are packing all of Kim Jong Il's output (watery & solid) back to N.Korea cos they suspect the Chinese may take samples if they flush it down the bowl. So this nail thing....hmmm, while new to me, is not as gross.

Can you ask her what about her hair that drop each day? and the urine/poop she passes out, where does she keep the stash? That one also from body. And is she intending to keep all her farts too???? Ridiculous!!!

shine_fs:

Can some1 tell me what should I do to her? Send her back to agent and let them educate her or buy ticket after she pay the loan(another 2 mths to go). :?:

Consider how comfy you are with her. If the thought scares you, tell the agent to talk some sense into her - that this is a hygiene issue (more than superstition). If she dun listen, bye bye.

shine_fs:

Some ppl tell me tat she is using those things to make spell on us or cook for us to eat. What you gals think :?

I thought it's more like if she collects YOUR family's nails etc then can do kong tao? If you have to worry about this, I think you have to start sweeping your own floor and cleaning own toilet (ie nonid maid) cos it's very easy for her to get such things.

[shine_fs]

hquek:

shine_fs:

Did any1 of your maid keeps her fingernails and fingers/toes' skin?

Don't know, and I don't think I want to know :!: :!:

shine_fs:

I asked her why she kept it. Her replied was she don't want to leave any thing from her \"body\" in Singapore. So she wanted to keep till she return to her home town

I just heard over the radio that North Koreans are packing all of Kim Jong Il's output (watery & solid) back to N.Korea cos they suspect the Chinese may take samples if they flush it down the bowl. So this nail thing....hmmm, while new to me, is not as gross.

Can you ask her what about her hair that drop each day? and the urine/poop she passes out, where does she keep the stash? That one also from body. And is she intending to keep all her farts too???? Ridiculous!!!

shine_fs:

Can some1 tell me what should I do to her? Send her back to agent and let them educate her or buy ticket after she pay the loan(another 2 mths to go). :?:

Consider how comfy you are with her. If the thought scares you, tell the agent to talk some sense into her - that this is a hygiene issue (more than superstition). If she dun listen, bye bye.

shine_fs:

Some ppl tell me tat she is using those things to make spell on us or cook for us to eat. What you gals think :?

I thought it's more like if she collects YOUR family's nails etc then can do kong tao? If you have to worry about this, I think you have to start sweeping your own floor and cleaning own toilet (ie nonid maid) cos it's very easy for her to get such things.

Thanks hquek.

[hquek]

shine_fs:

hquek:

I thought it's more like if she collects YOUR family's nails etc then can do kong tao? If you have to worry about this, I think you have to start sweeping your own floor and cleaning own toilet (ie nonid maid) cos it's very easy for her to get such things.

Thanks hquek.

Hi shine_fs, I feel that it's more a matter of hygiene if she dares put these sort of things in your food. My 'insurance' is that the maid eats what we eat. Don't worry about kong tao - as long as you are aboveboard, nothing to fear. Hope all goes well.

TGIF!!!

[peapot]

shine, personally I don’t think its casting spell but more like harbouring the intention to use it to lace your food. Just like how people use to spit into food before serving to customer that they don’t like? Do you know if she wants to cast spell, she don’t even need your personal thing? All she need is to chant your name. That’s what my Malay colleague told me.


How long has she been with you? If she has worked for you long enough, you can trust your own instinct. Woman’s sixh sense very accurate. But this is really a first for me! Never heard of maid who will keep these things!

[shine_fs]

peapot:

shine, personally I don't think its casting spell but more like harbouring the intention to use it to lace your food. Just like how people use to spit into food before serving to customer that they don't like? Do you know if she wants to cast spell, she don't even need your personal thing? All she need is to chant your name. That's what my Malay colleague told me.


How long has she been with you? If she has worked for you long enough, you can trust your own instinct. Woman's sixh sense very accurate. But this is really a first for me! Never heard of maid who will keep these things!

Ard 6 mths....I still think that she will not do that. Is more on her hygiene.