All About Full-Time Maids

[hquek]

mwchua:

Now she is trying to test my limit again - she requests to keep long hair even after I 1st day already told her all my maids keep short hair. She said she will tie it up etc....Actually I am not that inflexible but still I don't like the idea that she keeps on testing grounds - off-days, transfer, and now hair issue.

I also cannot understand, both maids I ever had all want to keep long hair. My mum is insistent on them having short hair. So our answer is NO. But few months before they go home, we allow them not to cut hair. This is conveyed to them. Thus far each time they have hair cut, their face will tend to be grumpy a bit. No choice, pretend never see.

Honestly, first few months we are a bit at their mercy becos of the paid up loan. After that, I quite heck care...if she play punk, I'll send her home to grow her hair.

[hquek]

cmm:

I was also harrassed by my previous maid thru phone calls & smses, until I changed my house number and mobile number. Then she had the cheek to contact me recently through facebook, and sent me a friend invite! What nerve! After causing so much unhappiness in my household before leaving, she had the cheek to do this! :x :x

If you are that free, create a new account and friend her....and then flame her for the bad she's done. Naughty girl. :stupid:

[hquek]

minnie2004:

My DH is the happiest person as he doesn't need to wash dishes anymore . As for me, I plan to do more cooking myself in preparation to go maidless/part-time maids in the future. During the 3 weeks w/o a maid, I found out I'm actually not a bad cook, just hate all the washing and cutting .

hi minnie2004, good for you. Now adjustment period, no choice hard life a bit.

FYI, the 2 maids I hired can't cook, but luckily my parents love to cook. So the maid deal with the cutting and washing, and my parents enjoy just the cooking process. win win situation.

[hquek]

minnie2004:

I'm wondering since now my current maid agrees to no day-offs, how does she send $$ home? Do I have to send for her? Where and how can I do that? My previous maids all go to Lucky Plaza to send $$. Do I have to go there too? :?


Also, is it reasonable to pay her $30 extra on top of her monthly salary of $350 to compensate for her day-off?

Thanks in advance!

My maids don't have day offs. but when they need to send money back, we'll either go on their behalf, or find a day to bring them to western union/sing post to get it done. (FYI, mine both Indo; and this is the only way I know).

But my maid is unmarried so she doesn't have so many familial cares. most of the time, they will prefer to keep the money in the bank rather than send it back to be frittered away by the family. Also it's \"cheaper\" to keep money here and bring it all back when they go back for holiday/for good than pay remittance fees.

[hquek]

http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20100721-228123.html


Good for her. 20 years of service....

\"A devoted Filipina maid inherited six million Singapore dollars from her late employer after more than 20 years of service\"

[autumnbronze]

Whoaaaaaaaaa :celebrate:


Yup, good for her

[liuhao]

hquek:

http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20100721-228123.html


Good for her. 20 years of service....

\"A devoted Filipina maid inherited six million Singapore dollars from her late employer after more than 20 years of service\"

for 20 years...from 27 years old to 47 years old...

she didn't go to HK, Taiwan, Europe...for a \"better\" job...
she didn't ask for transfer to find new employers...
she didn't yak over the hand phone all the time...
she didn't make bangla boyfriends...
she didn't smoke, drink, steal money, bring man to home, sneak out...
she didn't get sent back to agent or home...
she didn't run away...
she didn't disappear after home leave...
she didn't ...

why i cant even find one maid who can do all these \"didn't\" even for one year???

she did deserve the 6m dollars...

[raynreg]

Errr...liuhao, that's $300k per year or $25k per month or $2.8k per \"didn't\" per mth lei.. damn expensive \"didn't\" you got there. :lol:

[dimsum]

hquek:

http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20100721-228123.html


Good for her. 20 years of service....

\"A devoted Filipina maid inherited six million Singapore dollars from her late employer after more than 20 years of service\"

She's definitely the luckiest maid in Singapore!!

[DesertWind]

minnie2004:

I'm wondering since now my current maid agrees to no day-offs, how does she send $$ home? Do I have to send for her? Where and how can I do that? My previous maids all go to Lucky Plaza to send $$. Do I have to go there too? :?


Also, is it reasonable to pay her $30 extra on top of her monthly salary of $350 to compensate for her day-off?

Thanks in advance!

Hi minnie2004,

My maid from Indo. so I go to BNI to do remittance for her. Charges are cheaper and faster I understand compared to SingPost/Western Union. We went to check before and SingPost also goes via BNI so not fast enough. Western Union I am not sure why we did not use but I think her home-town got BNI so convenient for her. Maid ask her relative to open BNI account so that when I do the FT into relatives' account, they can get funds immediately!

I also insisted my maid to open a BNI account in Singapore so that when she goes home, she converts all her SGD money and put straight into her BNI account in Spore then go to her home-town and withdraw using her ATM. Initially she wants to save on those bank charges and told me to put into her relative's account instead. I told her I don't anyhow put money into other people's accounts one! She must open her own!

Should never allow her to bring a lot of cash back! Heard of horror stories of those in transit in their airports and officers kerna con them of their money!

There is one BNI at Lucky Plaza as well as one at Robinson Road.

Cannot do funds transfer using OCBC/POSB/DBS either. All cost SGD30/= per transfer! :x BNI is SGD10/= per FT and if the FT is into maid's own account, charges only SGD7.50.

I think maid does FTs about 3 times per year, not every month.

As for the pay per off-days, mine was SGD20/= per day.

:celebrate: