All About Full-Time Maids

[hquek]

limlim:

hquek:

Yah, I heard of one maid who was unabashed about walking into the employer's bedroom even when employers were sleeping...wah lau, if got action how? Buey paiseh.

Err.. you don't lock the door one ar..? :evil:

woah, not me lah. My friend kena, but no action - apart from zzzzz.

[janet88]

I don’t sleep with doors locked, but still that doesnt mean the maid can walk in.

[skippyjam]

my maid’s contract is expiring in Feb 2011 and I need to get a replacement by Feb so that the old one can handover the new one. However, the maid agency closed down so I need to find a new agency.


Any recommendation? I’m also looking for this agent Janet See who used to work for Jolly (the closed down agency). Does anyone know her? I think she is damn good at handling difficult maids.

[Anna Ng]

I got my first maid last week. On the second day she was asking me whether can she call back home as that day was her’s son birthday, so i let her call back using my hp. Yesterday my confinement lady told me that the maid was asking whether can used her hp to call back home again. What should i do? should i buy him a phone card? free or deduct fr salary ? if i pretend don know about this, i also worry that she got "home sick" and wanted to go back. Any suggestion?

[kanyaramesh]

Anna Ng:

I got my first maid last week. On the second day she was asking me whether can she call back home as that day was her's son birthday, so i let her call back using my hp. Yesterday my confinement lady told me that the maid was asking whether can used her hp to call back home again. What should i do? should i buy him a phone card? free or deduct fr salary ? if i pretend don know about this, i also worry that she got \"home sick\" and wanted to go back. Any suggestion?

I gave my maids one phone card a month(free) until their loan is paid up. After that they buy their own phone cards.

[hquek]

hi anna ng,


I let my maid call home once when they just arrive (though agent say not to cos they will form habit). Ex maid was very zi dong - keeping the calls very short, so I usually let her call back once every few months on my charge. current maid thinks nothing of making phone porridge, so after one long call, I got her 1 phone card. After that card is used up, she has to pay for her own phone card.

I find that once it’s HER money, she will cut down a lot. When it’s my money, the card use up super fast.

If you want to be nice to your maid, no worries, but let her know that this is goodwill. don’t let her take it for granted else she will start taking bigger strides.

And btw, not sure about others, I find the stories my maid tell me very mind boggling. Once she had to remit money home. first she say her dad sick, then she say her auntie got cancer. I hear until my brain cramp and refuse to take what she say for real.

[janet88]

My agent once told me that maids are given $20 a month so that they can buy things like sanitary pads, toiletries and phone cards.

Once they use their OWN money, they will know how to treasure.

[Anna Ng]

kanyaramesh:

I gave my maids one phone card a month(free) until their loan is paid up. After that they buy their own phone cards.

You mean normal Singtel phone card for the public phone?

[Breadandmuffins]

[quote]And btw, not sure about others, I find the stories my maid tell me very mind boggling. Once she had to remit money home. first she say her dad sick, then she say her auntie got cancer. I hear until my brain cramp and refuse to take what she say for real. [/quote]

Just heard this true account of a maid with employer for only 6 mths ...one fine day told employer that child died back home and need to go back....employer very shocked and sad, so give her 4 digit sum(also a few hundreds from another relative) & send her home.....guess what, maid never come back. Employer tried to track her down but no one answer calls , also agent in her country said saw her with her child & she actually told the agent that employer ill-treated her...big time liar . Apparently, this is not the first time something like this \"happened\" to some relative back home & employer also give her some money previously...I think the maid must have planned this for a while already, assess how nice employer is, therefore do a \"small\" one first before doing a \"big\" one and disappear. Really terrible to use such stories to \"cheat\" employer of their kindness and compassion.

[janet88]

Breadandmuffins,

I always hear things like ‘my father very sick, husband need money for son to go to school, xxx go hospital no money’ etc etc. Maids are big time liars. It’s so hard to believe it when they are also big time actors.