All About Full-Time Maids

[tamarind]

Check out my blog :

http://singaporemaid.blogspot.com/

On the right column, scroll down to look for Useful Resources. I have a few example of house rules and schedules.

Also read this :
http://singaporemaid.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-to-manage-maid.html

[Angelight]

No wonder alot of maids here went over to HK. Higher pay and more off days! :roll:

Tamama:

mama_g:

So do ppl in Taiwan and HK pay levy to their goverment for employing maids?

yes. i am from hk and i have a maid a few years ago. we paid levy to govt every 6 months. very expensive, but no choice. and filippio and indo's salary are just the same, with one off day every week, + statutory holidays. very enjoyable in hk.

[mama_g]

Tamama:

mama_g:

So do ppl in Taiwan and HK pay levy to their goverment for employing maids?

yes. i am from hk and i have a maid a few years ago. we paid levy to govt every 6 months. very expensive, but no choice. and filippio and indo's salary are just the same, with one off day every week, + statutory holidays. very enjoyable in hk.

Tamama, i heard that maids there have to bear their own expenses such as toiletries etc... is it true?

[Leoleo18]

Hi hi


I am having a Mynmar maid, she is 23years old, is a transfer maid. Initially when she arrived, we thought that she was good and really come here to work.
Till there is one time I suspect her going out in the morning without our permission. As both my hb and myself are working, there is no one to look over her and my boy is in P1 morning session. So she had all the morning to herself. After that I install Camera at home and to my surprise, the whole morning from 7 am to 1.30pm (my boy reached home at about 1.45pm) she was on the phone for 1-2 hrs and we also knew she has a boyfriend. As she loves to make phone call in my study room and not realising even though she hid one corner, her conversation is recorded. And the way she does the housework is just touch and go, not clean. But when we are at home, her attitude changed. So such a maid cannot be kept as you won’'t know what she is capable of doing when she stays on longer.
So I went to see another agent, who had indonesian maids (transfer) on hand, they are all of the same kind. They work for the $$ for themselves not for families. There are of no difference to those PHP. Sorry I really blacklist PHP as few experience with them, all the same mindset, here to enjoy life and not working.
Our conclusion is to send the maid back and no more maid for us. Now I am looking at the student care to place my child.

[bubblebee_mum]

Hi, I just employed a burmese maid for 2 wks already. and she’s horrifying!!! she eats like no one’s business!!! lunch and dinner, 1 cup of rice is not enough for her, she needs to eat bread for supper too and it’s not like we work her like mad!!! she doesn’t need to take care of kids cuz we dun allow her to, just doing the housework and cooking but yet she’s always hungry!! also, she’s starting to check the brand of products we use such as he bread we give her and her first day here, she asked for facial wash!!! and she uses the loreal brand!!! furthermore, last night she walked out of the bathroom in her sarong wrapped like a bathrobe!!! is this enough to send her back I wonder??

[clk]

Plan to go get a maid this afternoon, hope can get one good one, this round. Wish me luck...!!

[Littlefly]

Leoleo 18


Did you install the wireless type of hidden camera ? my new maid just came and i already left her at home alone whole morning. She is EX-Singapore and seems very savvy. I find her a bit too good to be true honestly that she kept saying that she is ok with my requirements for her not to hold handphone and no off-days. In her previous assignment, she has off-days and she gets to keep her handphone but still did not finish the 2 yr contract obviously citing low pay and tiring work (taking care of an elderly) in a household of total 4 adults, including herself.

My hb thinks it is a white elephant investment to have spy cameras installed given the hefty setup costs (around $1k?)…

any advise here?

bubblebee_mum, I think if you don’t feel good about her initially, just send her back then to put up with it. Go with your gut. I put up my first maid for 8mths thinking she could improve while we could adjust to having her around but no matter how good we treat her (buy her clothes, watch, off-days etc) it is still not use if helper is giving you more problems than help.

[peapot]

Littlefly, very cute name you have. I have spy camera in my house and yes it cost $1000++ but I must say it is worth it. I leave my maid alone with my Primary school girl.


So far, I haven’t caught her doing anything funny during this 1 year plus. I make her sign to acknowledge that there are cameras in the whole house and she must change only in the toilet.

The spy camera is used to deter and not used to catch them. So I inform the maid first before they start work.

If the maid knew that there’s camera and yet she still do funny thing then you can’t trust such maid.

Also, you must remember new maid always appear great but give them 3months, if after 3 months still the same then you can relax alittle. Wait another 3 more months and she is still the same then you can sigh a relief. And if she can stay 7months with you, you will know by then whether this maid suits you or not.

[peapot]

bubblebee, er…looking at the number of exclaimation marks you added in your post, think you may have already decided what to do with your maid. Go with your decision and you will probably feel much better.

[jtoh]

bubblebee_mum:

Hi, I just employed a burmese maid for 2 wks already. and she's horrifying!!!!!!!! she eats like no one's business!!!!!!! lunch and dinner, 1 cup of rice is not enough for her, she needs to eat bread for supper too and it's not like we work her like mad!!!!!!! she doesn't need to take care of kids cuz we dun allow her to, just doing the housework and cooking but yet she's always hungry!! also, she's starting to check the brand of products we use such as he bread we give her and her first day here, she asked for facial wash!!!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?! and she uses the loreal brand!!!!!! furthermore, last night she walked out of the bathroom in her sarong wrapped like a bathrobe!!! is this enough to send her back I wonder??

Quite a lot of the maids eat a lot when they first arrive. Especially bread and rice. And sugar. After a while, they realize that they're putting on weight and they'll cut back. The facial wash bit, I think is a bit bold.