All About Full-Time Maids
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Joanne_31:
My maids will plead and cry when we send her HOME and not for transfer. This showed one thing - she wanted a change of employer and thus using such tactic. It's better to send these maids HOME rather than returning them to agency because they will not be repeating the same thing to future employers.The maid cried and plead with us and the agent not to send her home and request for a tranfer. At that time, we did thought of transferring her to another family as all she required was someone with a strong personality to watch over her.
But after discussion with my family, we had decided to send her back as we think we should not encourage such attitude and create more problems to her future employer. Just my take. -
LKVM:
:idea: Gahmen can start planning to house and raise our 'locally made' FT then.. ...
and more language problem to us :stupid:auntieM:
There was a brief mention about these 45000 bangla maids in another thread..
He..hee.. Our Bangla boys here will get busier..
maybe more pregnancies :?
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auntieM:
:idea: Gahmen can start planning to house and raise our 'locally made' FT then.. ...
Yah, like our neighbor, build a special school for them
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[quote=\"DesertWindThanks cmm!
Looking forward to hear more from you. Like, do you have a good maid so far?
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My current maid (fili) so far so good. She's been with me since mid-2008. What I like about her is that she is very hardworking and has good attitude.
I always tell her, I can forgive her mistakes (she ever accidentally scalded my then 10mth-old with hot water while making milo), but once her attitude turns bad it's balik kampung for her. Cos I will never allow her to transfer to another employer as no employer likes maid with bad attitude.
She's got HP (she brought from Philippines) and off day (once a mth, but she seldom requests to take off). My rationale is that they need their own space and time off to \"get back their sanity\". But I tell her that many employers are reluctant to give their maids time off cos they pick up bad habits and attitudes from their friends and friends of friends. My maid is sensible and I'm pretty happy with her work and attitude so far. Of course there are minor things that I'm not so happy with, but mai hiam liao.... -
cmm:
I always tell her, I can forgive her mistakes (she ever accidentally scalded my then 10mth-old with hot water while making milo), but once her attitude turns bad it's balik kampung for her. Cos I will never allow her to transfer to another employer as no employer likes maid with bad attitude.
I'm sorry, I understand human error but this will be \"send her packing\" for me :x -
cmm,
Sorry I cannot accept human error as a reason for scalding my child. I always tell my maids, whenever she is cooking or mopping floor, the kids have to be sleeping or else lock kitchen door if mopping kitchen floor. She can break a bowl or plate but I cannot accept my kids falling bcos of her.
If she has to prepare milk, leave the child in her cot rather than carrying her to prepare milk. It’s very dangerous.
I treat and discuss handphone issues wth my maids…why I don’t like them to mix with others as well. She told me she understood but once she brought my gal to the playground, her brain is WASHED :x -
Hi LKVM,
I treated all my maids like adults and explain to them nicely, hoping that she will understand. After bringing daughter to playground once or twice, her brain is washed COMPLETELY, like as if our discussions never took place. She will compare, ‘why my friend can this, why I cannot’ :x -
LKVM,
I also included one important pep talk - ie do not tell MIL anything when she kaypoh. Other than asking maid her name, where she come from and her age, the rest say DON'T KNOW.
What the sh!@, the moment she brings daughter to playground after pep talk, she comes back and asked me why she has no off day :stupid: -
So I asked her, ‘How long have you been here ? What is our agreement at the agency ? Do you want to go home ?’
Oh yes, one more thing, NO TALKING BACK. When the maid talks back, my kids will tell her, ‘you talk back, you are in trouble.’ -
Joanne_31:
Great news!!! My helper has agreed to the arrangement. She said her hubby will loan more money from his boss for the time being since I will be giving them the 2nd mth loan after she came back!!! Thanks everyone for your suggestion!!!
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