All About Full-Time Maids

[verykiasu2010]

is so sad that we need to stoop so low to deal with the mad maids in order not to be cheated or defrauded…what the world has become ??

[pokemon97]

Hi, anyone here hire maid to take care elderly, can ur maid manage? If the maid totally got no experience in handling elderly, how??? Recently my sil hire a Myanmar maid to take care my mil but everything also don’t know…headache

[sistasi]

Hi all esp for those who left the kid alone with maid, no supervision from mother/father/in-laws,

i’m quite new to have a maid, need some advice here.
do you give your maid house keys?
do you let your maid go out the house for a walk?
do you let your maid bring their friends into the house?
thx.

[tankee]

I think the word is "trust"


whether the maid has earned yours & your spouse’s trust

[bigsnoopy]

verykiasu2010:

wow !! that is like the secret message embedded into the moon cakes eons ago .... origin of moon cake .... it also shows that the Rolex is bake-able !!

Didn't bake the watch la... She bake the sponge cake first... Then dig a hole in the middle and put the watch inside (watch still wrap nicely in plastic bag) Then put back the top sponge on top and put cream outside and decorate it with icing and cherries...

[peapot]

if no one is at home and you don’t give her house key, what happen if there’s fire??!! How is she gonna escape? I give my maid housekey but I do have a CCTV at home. It’s facing the main door. I know who goes in and out.


But before I installed CCTV, I also give the key to my maid because my mother say if fire how??!! so I give loh.

[peapot]

Talk about bird nest, can’t stand my husband. He will reserve one bowl of birdnest for the maid everytime when he cooks. Luckily only 1 month 1 time. I always think the basic for the maid is enough, no need to buy birdnest, abalone, cod fish, scallops etc…

[DesertWind]

peapot:

Talk about bird nest, can't stand my husband. He will reserve one bowl of birdnest for the maid everytime when he cooks. Luckily only 1 month 1 time. I always think the basic for the maid is enough, no need to buy birdnest, abalone, cod fish, scallops etc...

Hi peapot,

I think your hubby, like me, perhaps cannot help but must put one small bowl for the maid, especially since he is the one cooking! Because actually very pai-seh lah, if you cook and most times everybody eat same thing suddenly cook bird-nest maid cannot eat. Sometimes when I also thought I a bit too much don't feel like giving the maid bird-nest so I will cook on her off-day. That one easiest to do! But one time I cook a bit too late so she came back in the evening liao so I just leave some for her lor. In this instance, my thinking is rather than maid not eating at all, just give her a little bit will also do. Really there is no obligation to give maid to eat such expensive stuff like you mention, basic will do!

[DesertWind]

pokemon97:

Hi, anyone here hire maid to take care elderly, can ur maid manage? If the maid totally got no experience in handling elderly, how??? Recently my sil hire a Myanmar maid to take care my mil but everything also don't know....headache

Hi pokemon97,
Yes, me!
You can read my post on page 604 regarding my maid hired to take care of my father. Mine is a young Indonesian maid, no experience previously. But in order to be able to take care especially if got medical problems and need to go in and out of hospital, you need an INTELLIGENT maid. If she is intelligent and willing to learn, she can pick up! Can send her for training at the maid agency or even the hospital Care-givers' course. But hope your Myanmar maid's English is good and trainable. My maid told me most of the maids at the Care-givers' course were Philippinos. It seems most people will hire Philippinos to look after the elderly and quite a number of Philippinos work as nurses in the hospital.
All the best!

[DesertWind]

tigger88:

My maid also dun eat durian when she first came. Now whenever we buy, she will eat some. Same..we only buy mao shan wang as I like those bitter sweet and creamy texture.

Mao Shan Wang hurray!
:imcool:
Kee...hee...hee!