All About Full-Time Maids

[beanstalk]

My helper doesn’t meet me at the door nor do I expect it. I don’t mind because it would otherwise feel as if someone were watching me all the time. To me she is keeping a respectful distance and giving me my own space.

[micollh]

tt’s what i told her. i think i cant help her too

[Angelight]

hi mummies, do you bring your maid to private clinic or polyclinic for the mandatory bi-annual medical check up?

[bigsnoopy]

Always bring maid for check up in private clinic and will do it on Saturday while waiting for DD to finish enrichrichment… So killing 2 birds with one stone…

[hquek]

I bring mine to Jas medical next to aljunied mrt. They do screening of foreign workers on a mass scale. Quite cheap. But can be fairly long wait.

[omgmum]

Hi peapot, my maid ah… I seriously think that she will be happier in a home where she is primarily expected to take care of only 1 kid, and doesn’t really need to do chores. As for her cooking, it’s v weird cos she can cut veg well but somehow she still doesn’t really know how to make sure things are really cooked or if they taste good. So maybe she ate organic, uncooked food back home?


She 's starting to cut corners. E.g. Not cleaning stains on clothes, staining clothes with clothes that run, putting in wet pots in cupboards etc. I just have the feeling that she can’t make it in the long run. Sigh!

[Carrot_55]

Hi, need some advice here…


My maid is with us for bout 1 mth. She’s a transfer maid from Myanmar with 3 mth experience in sg worked with 2 previous employers.

She don’t remember instructions and keep making mistakes in doing simple household chores, eg she used the brush for vacuuming the floor to vacuum sofa when we have a separate brush jus for vacuuming the sofa. She thinks that she did all the chores correctly and im too fussy when I can still see stains on the dinning table, dust under my dresser, all our clothes in the wrong wardrobes with wrong hangers. her job is very simple - jus to cleaning as I will cook and look after my dd. Even my dd can clean better than her!

My patience is gg to a limit as my expectation for her is very low (previous maids have no issue on cleaning at all)… I think it doesn’t make sense to send her back to the agency as I will need to train a new maid tt might be as "good" as her or even worst… But sometimes, I feel very fed up cos even simple chores are not properly done…

Any idea on what I shld??

[peapot]

omgmum, is yr maid from Myanmmar? Usually burmese maids quite blur in house work. My previous myanmmar maid train like mad.


Carrot, usually if I know the transfer maid has been transferred twice within such a short period I wouldn’t take her. If she had been 70% alright, I don’t think any employer would want to transfer her out. So if you can accept that she’s been transferred before then maybe you need to lower your expectations and just keeps on training and reminding. How about asking her to re-do until she gets it correct. Asked whether she wants to do the same job twice or better to get it right the first time.

[Anna Ng]

omgmum: what were the reason she being transfered?

[hquek]

omgmum:

As for her cooking, it's v weird cos she can cut veg well but somehow she still doesn't really know how to make sure things are really cooked or if they taste good. So maybe she ate organic, uncooked food back home?


She 's starting to cut corners. E.g. Not cleaning stains on clothes, staining clothes with clothes that run, putting in wet pots in cupboards etc. I just have the feeling that she can't make it in the long run. Sigh!

Umm, not ex-sing right? Wondering if could be my ex maids. They only had to help grandparents clean and slice, but couldn't cook to save their lives.

Yes. I find that many will start to slacken. Even mine, nowadays, I get the feel floor ain't as clean as before, and all she needs to do is clean house. :sad: