All About Full-Time Maids
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For mine, the helper is living with my dad and a tenant. So there is no ‘govt’. As long as my dad is safe, meals taken care of, I close one eye. I don’t pay for her hp usage and she has no access to home wifi. She knows there is cctv at home.
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starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"1957401\" time=\"1578201692\" user_id=\"14025:
Great wisdom. Good start to handling new maids - no WiFi nor pay for her hp usage. CCTV is a good idea with very young kids & elderly in care of helper during daytime.
For mine, the helper is living with my dad and a tenant. So there is no 'govt'. As long as my dad is safe, meals taken care of, I close one eye. I don't pay for her hp usage and she has no access to home wifi. She knows there is cctv at home. -
Estéema\" post_id=\"1957430\" time=\"1578213147\" user_id=\"66413:
Totally.
Great wisdom. Good start to handling new maids - no WiFi nor pay for her hp usage. CCTV is a good idea with very young kids & elderly in care of helper during daytime.starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"1957401\" time=\"1578201692\" user_id=\"14025:
For mine, the helper is living with my dad and a tenant. So there is no 'govt'. As long as my dad is safe, meals taken care of, I close one eye. I don't pay for her hp usage and she has no access to home wifi. She knows there is cctv at home.
My mil maid is constantly glued to her hp, doesn't do her job well. No say no do, even say also anyhow do. All because of unlimited free WiFi, but e prob is once given its hard to take back. My mil worried maid might take revenge, so she rather accept a dirty hse than a vengeance maid. Lol. Such a joke. I've seen the maid chilling at the backyard chilling with her hp so many times. Everytime I check her watsapp last seen timing, it's always within the past 15 mins. -
What is this world becoming? That employers become slaves of some helpers?
Having said that, there are really responsible and good helpers -
Nt to mention they are picky with food.
My maid told me she do not like the following food : non fried banana, bean sprout, ntuc brand instant noodle, kaya, pineapple, tomato. She luv indomie, hotdog, coke. - _-‘’
My mil maid gave me a dirty look when I offered her my indocafe coffee, outright told me ‘this I no like’. -
Poppyy\" post_id=\"1957503\" time=\"1578276743\" user_id=\"183163:
Mine eats/drinks whatever my dad eats/drinks.
Nt to mention they are picky with food.
My maid told me she do not like the following food : non fried banana, bean sprout, ntuc brand instant noodle, kaya, pineapple, tomato. She luv indomie, hotdog, coke. - _-''
My mil maid gave me a dirty look when I offered her my indocafe coffee, outright told me 'this I no like'. -
Poppyy\" post_id=\"1957503\" time=\"1578276743\" user_id=\"183163:
I’ll tell her “I know luv but “I can’t give u Indomie or any instant noodles coz MOM don’t allow” & show her the MOM guidelines.
Nt to mention they are picky with food.
My maid told me she do not like the following food : non fried banana, bean sprout, ntuc brand instant noodle, kaya, pineapple, tomato. She luv indomie, hotdog, coke. - _-''
My mil maid gave me a dirty look when I offered her my indocafe coffee, outright told me 'this I no like'.
“You want hotdog or coke, but for yourself” I only give 3 squares meals with rice, veg & s’times chicken or fish depends on what I eat” :evil:
Oh come on, in Indonesia, don’t think their diet is hotdog or coke everyday! Tell her some hotdog hv babi. Indonesians mostly depend on rice as staple & maybe some chilli, some deep fried fish or chicken. Where for hotdog? Be firm with her to eat what your family eats except those she’s not able bcoz of religious belief. That we’ve to respect. -
Poppyy\" post_id=\"1956953\" time=\"1577975934\" user_id=\"183163:
i have a google wifi mesh system so i limit her 'wifi' usage only from 830-1030pm ...and yes my home has CCTV but it's impossible to cover all the rooms ( her room and our master bed room / toilets etc i cant have cctv...) so she will usually go into those rooms to 'hide' loh....and cctv has blind spots so cant really always spot them also....
Omg, did u gave her WiFi password?arsenalgirl\" post_id=\"1956792\" time=\"1577940566\" user_id=\"168680:
Hi Guys...just sharing with you guys about a full time maid that i hired who is my worst maid ever...she is highly likely looking to return back to Singapore soon so would like to share it here so that no other employer is 'unlucky ' enough to employ her.
Name: Kap Tluangi ( Myanmmar)
WP No: 0 93760115
Sent her back today and she was shouting and demanding why we didnt tell her earlier and demanded to be bought a luggage ...best is when packing her stuff it exceeded check in baggage limits by 10 kg...( about 30 over kg worth of clothes and stuff)- she even suggested to place her belongings at my security guard post so that her friends can pick it up- how bold and 'creative' right...( even storage facilities also have a fee lah...wah lau).
During her 9 month employment....her main tasks is to clean the house and preparing breakfast and dinners ...for a small family of 3- hubby , me and boy who goes to full day child care). Yet during her employment she
-Always always cannot get up on time....1 week she will oversleep at least 3-4 times...meaning either me or my hubby have to wake her up making us so tired....as we go to sleep later than her ( Her bedtime is usually 830-9pm as we take over our son and put him to sleep every night)...morning on wkdays she needs to get up at 6am to help us prep as my hubs needs to leave with my boy for childcare by 7am...in order to reach work on time...so because of her tardiness they are either often late for sch/ work or i need to be so stressed out and wake up subconsciously by 6am to check that she's up...:(
She also has a very non teachable attitude and is very defensive whenever you correct her mistakes....she will argue and argue back whatever point you raise...An example...when you tell her that you've trained her to dry the front load washer and not overload the washing machine to prevent moisture/ it from spoiling etc...she will reply : Oh is it? Or when she serves you burnt food....you ask her why it's burnt she replies oh the video you showed me says 1 hr ( but i told her to tweak the timing as the size of the potato is different - she doesn't watch food as well when she cooks leading the food to be overcooked or water to boil over )- Her bio data rates her cooking as 5/5 ya hahahaha....big joke ya
Is a huge busybody....loves to interupt whenever hubs and I are talking and inserts her opinions in whenever it's not sought for....like when we buy clothes for my boy she'll go eeewl that's so ugly etc....basically no respect...
Lastly, due to her inability to get up in the mornings we imposed a time limit to her handphone hours ( so at night from 9-1030pm-Disclaimer: I hope people don't judge....as people from Home or whatever organisations might say its so inhumane etc to keep someone's phone)...blah blah BUT in any case whilst packing today i found out that she has a 2nd secret phone which is probably why she always oversleeps as she's always using her hp late into the night....and also explains y she's always taking so long in the toilet as well....( when i asked her today she again had another explanation : that she was helping her 'friend keep the phone')...
Another thing i also found out today was that she throws her undergarment - panties and bra together with my son's laundry- when she came i provided her with a scrub and pail and told her explicitly not to wash her undergarments in the washing machine ( we allow her to wash the rest of her clothes in the washing machine)- even I handwash my own undergarments....ARGH im feeling so disgusted i feel like getting a new washing machine
So yup writing this post to warn potential future employers as she is looking to return to work here ( she has a wide network of friends here )..She's an ex SG mynammar maid so her spoken English is pretty good for Myanmmar so she might kind of easily do well in 'interviews' with potential employers...( thats one of the reasons i took her too since it was diff finding myanmmar helpers with gd English - as Im a FTWM and don't have time to train a fresh one)
Ur hse gt cctv?
Y u allow her to wash her clothes in the washing machine? Shouldn't maid hand wash their clothes separately?
Sorry but I'm a FTWM as well. Trying to find how others managed their maid.
Yah that is my fault....i shouldn't have allowed her to use the washing machine to wash her clothes....i thought chin chai since our laundry load is little.....so can just add hers in as well but turns out she abused our 'kindness' and started disrespecting us and treating us as if we are tenants instead of her employers....
She is also quite bold and rude with her comments I rem once we went out shopping she was supposed to look after my boy and my hubby and I were picking out his clothes....then when my hubby picked one out she went ' EEEE so ugly'...i was like woah she's so Audacious...
Once at a restaurant also i asked if she wanted to share some of my porridge she said 'eeeeee' dont want....
WTF rte.... -
@ arsenalgirl I recall a conversation with my frd’s pino helper here with 12 years service bagged. She explained in her country, their ppl take porridge only when sick & no energy to stomach anything heavy. So, maybe that’s where she’s coming fr?
S’times we’ve gotta look beyond their inability to communicate or express themselves well, but in short sentences. I’m sure if she speaks in Bahasa Indonesiaand her intonation it’ll be very expressive to communicate her truest of meanings.
OT, just the other day, I was sharing with DH how our first Indo girl came during her Hari Raya & we were so appreciative coz many wld this come during tt impt part of their festive culture & we brot her out & ask her to chose her lotong or satay. She kept looking at the signboard & then shone her head. We asked her why & she quietly said for 40 cents each stick (price abt 20 years back) she cld buy 10 sticks back home. We then just bought for her & sat her down. S’times, when my family hv fruits I wld remind my kids culture does make a lot of diff btwn hunger & those who hv & take for granted. In SG, we’ve so much choices of foreign imported fruits to add to our plates, but for these helpers, most SG families do not incl fruits in a helpers diet. I’m sure when they’re back home, they happily enjoy bananas or papayas fr their bkyard w/o worries of costs, but they don’t get to eat them in our SG homes. DH always chided me for siding helpers, but when they shows disrespect or hide in toilets lengthy periods too often, they get an earful fr me. I do spot check their quality of work & explain the reasons why I need sth to be hygienic or clean, but will be in hardtone once I’ve to remind them umpteen times. An eyer has to exercise firmness w/o being inhumane & not give understanding to their original perspectives. JMO -
I feel that in general the maids are giving me e vibe that they are here on a holiday.
1) picky on food
2) want hp - my maid requested for a hp during her 2nd mth but I did not give her WiFi, as she was previously using my hp to watsapp video for 30 to 40 mins each night
3) preference on toiletries - bought citra for her, thinking its her homeland brand but she said not gd, and want garnier whitening instead. - _-
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