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    • S Offline
      shine_fs
      last edited by

      LKVM:

      Well I have always told that we can do everything without her so she shouldnt feel that she is very important 😉
      I told her the same sentence, \"I can do without her.\"

      My house is more cleaner.........:lol:

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        DesertWind
        last edited by

        Hello all,


        Thank goodness for \"automatic\" maids!

        My maid seldom got sick but once kid kerna seasonable flu, she will also kerna and then I too will kerna! But so far for flu she will automatically take \"Lemsip\" for couple of nights then sleep and see whether she got better or not. If not, I will ask her to go see doctor and get flu medication. But flu medication makes her sleepy so she will only take at night or I tell her to take in afternoon so that she can nap when the boy naps as well!

        But my maid is quite sensitive to rain, a few drops only she will have runny nose! She used to have runny nose and sniff in the morning quite often until I told her she must blow-dry her hair after washing in the early morning! Because leaving hair wet will cause her to sneeze and nose to run. I bought a brand new powerful hair-dryer for her and ever since she uses it, her runny nose has stopped!

        She is also quite sensitive to chilli sauce and food left overnight. Chilli sauce gives her diahorrea and food not fresh she will get stomach pain. Not that we make her eat leftover food but her stomach is much more sensitive than mine. When I eat the leftover food & chilli, OK for me no problem leh? But when she eat got problem. So now she avoids chilli and leftover food. I told her not to cook so much lah! She do the cooking and I am full time working so I won't be around to eat what. So she got to control her cooking quantity mah since she manages the whole kitchen!

        The only scare we got was when she just joined us not long during her first year she suddenly got side pain until her face turns white. We got to call the ambulance to send her to the hospital! But after 2 hours she got better and we took her to specialist to see whether urine track got stones? But after a while she said don't waste money also no more pain!

        Thank God after that OK! Throughout all the above incidences it did not affect her work. The whole house nobody is around most time except herself. I told her right from the beginning she has to manage by herself and take rest as necessary in the afternoon.

        Maids who are not automatic better don't renew the contract. 😛

        :celebrate:

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          auntieM
          last edited by

          I had a maid who claim that she can't eat left overs and have very sensitive skin.

          She will soak her baju in fabric softener overnight, and if she gets to choose she will buy the most ex type of tissue paper/ kitchen paper towel available..
          She bochap what kind of toilet roll cause she uses tissue in toilet wor :faint:

          So have to play detective.. ... 😉

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            moonee
            last edited by

            auntieM:
            I had a maid who claim that she can't eat left overs and have very sensitive skin.

            She will soak her baju in fabric softener overnight, and if she gets to choose she will buy the most ex type of tissue paper/ kitchen paper towel available..
            She bochap what kind of toilet roll cause she uses tissue in toilet wor :faint:

            So have to play detective.. ... 😉
            This reminds me of my sisters maid tat came by by home last yr, she told my maid to use tissue paper to wipe the table, my maid told her its costly, she replied \"not your money , why u care! \" My sis eventually changed her.

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              auntieM
              last edited by

              LKVM:
              moonee:

              she replied \"not your money , why u care! \" My sis eventually changed her.


              :!: :!: like that also can :stupid:

              ah-ba-den.. ...they can be very 'smart' leh..

              Imagine I kept buying fabric softener and they just kept 'finishing' :stupid:

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                esmummy
                last edited by

                Hi. Just to share about this maid Felixia Mogi who ekytay also wrote about. My parents employed her about 3 months ago and she is really a maid from hell. Everything ekytay reported about her is true…


                She sleeps all day. At 7.30am, my mother has to bang on her bedroom door and yell before she wakes up. She never answers the phone because she is bathing. Claims to bathe 5 times a day yet still so smelly!!!

                She answers back when told she has done something wrong. She even told my mum " don’t just tell me what I did wrong, try and slap me lah!"

                When she was ill, we gave her medication that she claimed was the dogs’ medication and called the agency to complain. Worse still, when we brought her to the GP, the doctor said there was nothing wrong with her!!!

                Finally, my parents decided to transfer her out today and she complained
                to the agency that my mum had tried to run her over with the car… so tok!

                So I really hope no one else employs her because I feel she is a very vicious and malicious person who a) does not want to do a maid’s chores b) is lazy and dishonest and c) is capable of harming one’s family.

                There should be some way of making sure that she can never get employment in Singapore again!

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                • raynregR Offline
                  raynreg
                  last edited by

                  Better publicise this in Tamarind's blog. Else other employer is going to have a hard time with her.


                  http://singaporemaidcomments.blogspot.com

                  esmummy:
                  Finally, my parents decided to transfer her out today and she complained
                  to the agency that my mum had tried to run her over with the car... so tok!

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                    esmummy
                    last edited by

                    Hi. Yes, I’ve posted there already. I think there may be a problem naming and shaming maids here? Someone posted on a few of their bad experiences with certain named maids but the post has been taken down?

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                      hquek
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                      auntieM:
                      I had a maid who claim that she can't eat left overs and have very sensitive skin.

                      She will soak her baju in fabric softener overnight, and if she gets to choose she will buy the most ex type of tissue paper/ kitchen paper towel available..
                      She bochap what kind of toilet roll cause she uses tissue in toilet wor :faint:

                      So have to play detective.. ... 😉
                      Sometimes cannot think too hard.

                      My current maid at first claim she cannot drink cold water or eat ice cream. Then by and by, she start to drink some cold water, and bit by bit, some ice cream. I really don't know what to make of it.

                      Toilet paper reminds me of thing that happened with ex-maid. Sometimes we buy different brands (whatever is on sale). She'll put the rough rough type in the toilets my family using, and the smooth one in the toilet she uses (only she use, we seldom go inside). Until my mum wised up and swopped the paper when that happens. After that, she didn't dare try. 😛

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                        noobparent
                        last edited by

                        So many horror stories about maids. Quite scary.


                        Any good experiences at all?

                        I find that my maid is quite good.

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