All About Full-Time Maids

[peapot]

That’s funny. I don’t believe you can tell whether a maid can work with just one interview. More like testing whether her English good or bad. I have also interview some staff before. During interview they perform very well but after you hire them, you realized they can be so different. Hence, I m more likely to believe what an ex-employer would say rather than agent. Hiring a good maid is still 90% luck. The balance 10% is whether she has body odor, whether she too chatty, has allergy, very religious etc

[hquek]

hi peapot,


understand. but then again, some employers are so eager to get rid of their maids they may also spin stories.

[Anna Ng]

mine is transfer maid. The ex employer told me that my maid got good memory and cook quite well. However i am very stress due to her poor memory and also lousy cooking. (i’ve shared these last few weeks in this thread). Different people got different expectation and needs, i think all depend on luck. My agent told me as long as you got a good feel with the maid then just take her, all the information stated may not true.

[hquek]

Anna Ng:

mine is transfer maid. The ex employer told me that my maid got good memory and cook quite well. However i am very stress due to her poor memory and also lousy cooking. (i've shared these last few weeks in this thread). Different people got different expectation and needs, i think all depend on luck. My agent told me as long as you got a good feel with the maid then just take her, all the information stated may not true.

That means we should interpret the strengths as weakness? or maybe that ex-employer has amnesia.

Yes I agree it all depends on luck, and expectations - although I'm sure some maids fail the expectations bit even if the bar was set at zero.

[jtoh]

Talk about misinformation given by ex-employers. One of my ex-maids' employers said she was very hardworking, very honest, always takes down notes for instructions. Sounds good right? Turns out she's mentally challenged, so very slow, cannot understand instructions, that's why must take down notes. Very hardworking but always does the wrong things, misunderstands instructions... :lightrod:

[hquek]

jtoh:

Talk about misinformation given by ex-employers. One of my ex-maids' employers said she was very hardworking, very honest, always takes down notes for instructions. Sounds good right? Turns out she's mentally challenged, so very slow, cannot understand instructions, that's why must take down notes. Very hardworking but always does the wrong things, misunderstands instructions... :lightrod:

but at least she's honest?

[Qoomum76]

thanks ladies for the replies…yah, I feel strange to have her eat with us. Yet, I don’t wish to offend my MIL…hmm… My friend suggested that I can scoop some food out from the dishes first and put on her plate, and not let her eat those leftover food after our meal… I even had a indonesian friend(those rich tai tai type). Back home, they requested their maid to cook seperately for her own meal…

[Chu Liu Xiang]

Anna Ng:

mine is transfer maid. The ex employer told me that my maid got good memory and cook quite well. However i am very stress due to her poor memory and also lousy cooking. (i've shared these last few weeks in this thread). Different people got different expectation and needs, i think all depend on luck. My agent told me as long as you got a good feel with the maid then just take her, all the information stated may not true.

You kena con liao

When an employer wants to get rid of the maid he/she would say all the good things about the maid mah

[hquek]

Hi Qoomum76,


That’s what we do. My mum will scoop out dishes for her first - she bought those indian type plates…metally with compartments so the dishes are kept ‘aside’ from the rice. in that way, actually maid will get first dibs.

I know of a rich guy in MYS. He has a long time domestic servant and everyday, she will troop down to one of his other houses (owns the whole row) and cook for herself and the gardeners. He doesn’t bring her out to eat also - I know some of us have this hangup where we must bring the help along when we go out for dinner.

[Chu Liu Xiang]

jtoh:

Talk about misinformation given by ex-employers. One of my ex-maids' employers said she was very hardworking, very honest, always takes down notes for instructions. Sounds good right? Turns out she's mentally challenged, so very slow, cannot understand instructions, that's why must take down notes. Very hardworking but always does the wrong things, misunderstands instructions... :lightrod:

Also kena con liao