All About Full-Time Maids

[kanyaramesh]

duriz:

LKVM:

[quote=\"fionong\"]Well..... I believe employing a maid depend all on our luck.

We spend so much time and money on them still should have lucky genes to have good maid :stupid:

Sadly.
We've had ONE good maid and 6 horrendous ones.
I cannot even begin to get into their \"antics\" here.
Nonetheless, we currently have a local PT maid come in the morning.
But she will be going away in December to help someone with her confinement, as she is a confinement lady as well. Cannot break her ricebowl, she does make more money being a confinement lady than helping us PT everyday.
I may very well quit my job and become a SAHM again instead of getting a new FT maid.
Just to illustrate: MIL treated one of our previous so well that when I tried to correct the stubborn mule's mistakes, she said to me:\"Ah Ma treats me
like her daughter but you always scold me!\" :x My retort: \"I hired youhere to work, not to have Ah MA fall in love with you and make you family. Do
you think I go out everyday for a massage and tea with the ladies? I go out to work so you can get your pay every month!\" :x[/quote]
I too had one good maid and six terrible ones. At present I am maid-less. Am so scarred by these maids I am terrified of getting another one. At present managing full-time work, ds and cooking. Dh keeps telling me to get another maid but I think I need to do a maid detox for a while. Does anyone have a good maid to recommend?

[janet88]

Honestly I prefer Indonesian ones than Filipino. Filipino die die must have off day. I had one good maid and 2 lousy ones during the 4 years...terribly scarred by the last one.


During those years when I had Indon maids, we ate mainly chicken since they can't eat pork. My brother even bought chicken pau and thought of them when we had meals outside...so what, these maids never appreciate. Agency always tells me, if we eat pork on days, tell the maid to cook noodles, or else fry an egg...also don't start the habit of giving them teabreaks or they will expect. It's SO true

[mrswongtuition]

My family treat all our maids very well, be it new or not.


The difference between a good maid and a not so good maid:
Good maids KNOW that they are treated well and appreciate it. They will work very hard knowing that we will be good to them. They will not want to change employers cos they know they may not meet a good one next.

Not so good maids will just laze around the house. Take everything for granted and take short cuts. If they ask to leave, just let them leave.


We prefer ex-Msia maids cos usually they are not treated very well in Msia. So when they come here, they are more appreciative. And after working in Msia, I would say most of them are very well-trained by the Msian families.

[janet88]

mrswongtuition:

My family treat all our maids very well, be it new or not.


The difference between a good maid and a not so good maid:
Good maids KNOW that they are treated well and appreciate it. They will work very hard knowing that we will be good to them. They will not want to change employers cos they know they may not meet a good one next.

Not so good maids will just laze around the house. Take everything for granted and take short cuts. If they ask to leave, just let them leave.

Very well said...so true.
My first maid really appreciated us. She deserved the bonus at the end. I also bought her an air-ticket nearer home so that she didn't have to travel so long...until now, she still keeps in contact with me...smses me on my birthday as well as other family members like my mum. :love:
This maid even cleaned my mum's place on eve of CNY without having to ask her.

Not so good ones will laze, gossip and take what they are given for granted. The Lampung maid I had goes to my mum's place...lifts up the pot covers to see what is cooked without fail :x after ironing my clothes at home, she disappears into one corner to sleep :x talks back every time :x and on eve of CNY asked me why is there a need to clean the floor.

[hquek]

janet_lee88:

Govt said maids are humans and so teach them to ask for rights...that's why these maids ask for transfer the moment they are unhappy with their employers. Give Filipino maids off days, then if they pregnant and found out, they go home. Or else get involved with security guards at condos or Pakistani workers.

All this honestly I dun care - why should it matter to me as an employer that a maid doesn't want to work for me, or if a maid wants to get preg by a boyfriend who happens to have a hometown hundreds of miles away? only problem is that employers have to assume at least 2-3K loan on behalf of the maid.

If this is taken away, honestly I am sure that no employer will put up with a maid that can't perform.

I know some pp say that employers should just pay all the maid fee...but then have they met any maid who just come here for holiday?

[skippyjam]

my 1st maid from lampung is good too, do her work without you barking at her back. Unfortunately her homesickness was severe that she kept thinking we are ill-treating her. Sent her back after 1 yr only.


2nd maid was a loader, cannot speak English, think she is on holiday, give me resignation letter after 1 week of work, complain that she was not informed that she has to look after children. Over web-cam interview, everything ok ok but it's a different story when she finally arrived. But the maid agent took her back to re-train her and when she came back, there was a 180 degree change. Now after 1.5 yrs, knowing that she is going back, she is trying to eat snake again. Now I'm back to finding a maid but unfortunately, my agency closed down. :roll:

Btw, I'm looking for this agent, Janet See. She used to work at Jolly and she's the one who trained and disciplined my maid well. Anybody knows her? :?:

[Charmaine_chong]

Dear All,


Can anyone advise how long a maid is allowed to stay here after expiry of work permit?

I called MOM but no answer after holding the call for 20 minutes whereas for the MOM website, i am clucless where to get the information.

Please can anyone enlighten me .

Thanks

[skippyjam]

Hi Charmaine


you should call the maid agency, they should know better

[janet88]

I don’t know why Singapore doesn’t have the same system as HKG. HKG employers don’t have to assume as many responsibilities as us Singaporeans. If they are not dissatisfied with the maids, they just fire them…when maids get pregnant, employers don’t have to bear it.

[snowman.022851697]

The government is giving us the impression that maids come here to enjoy life. They have far too many rights.