All About Full-Time Maids

[LOLMum]

even if you escort the maid to the airport, see her go past the immigration counter, it doesnt guarantee she would not turn around and bite you.


all it takes is just a few tears and she would be sent to the embassy here and it spelt "trouble" for employer.

[hquek]

Sigh…I read the case about the employer whose maid claimed that she (maid) was beaten everyday and threw notes over the gate. The employer was acquitted becos the maid’s testimony was found untruthful…but then so what? 2 years of hell waiting to clear name. It’s just so not worth it.


And now employers are expected to be training centres (reports on encouraging employers to send their maids for training courses). Ummm, if they desire to upgrade so much, why would they want to stay on as maids? How come our country suddenly seems to desperate to upgrade pp from other countries when their own country ‘boh heow’?

[24hr-mum]

oh i dont mean skip the salary. i mean eg her pay day is 19th but she wil b transferd on 12 nov. thinkg whr to pay up to 12th or until 19h ie whole mth out of gdwill. her work is ok but her attitude twds my elder gal ie bochap, stil no change n i wonder whr she wil appreciate anyway since the extra paymt if gvn is jus a wk

[24hr-mum]

anyway ev mth whn i pay her salary she has to sign on my record bk n her bank book tats joint acc wf me

[nms1]

I would pay her until the 19th - it’s a small amount of money to you but a nice gesture to her and it will save any argument.

[peapot]

I pay her only up to the day she leaves my Hse. They will never appreciate if you pay more, so to me "why bother?"

[24hr-mum]

she wf me 4yr plus. shes gd to my othr two kids, only critical of my no. 1. start to b not so humble aft 3yrs. shes stil responsible n wks well aft knowg i releasg her. but she jus dont like my elder gal n i decided then i will let her go. eg in the morng she only turn on the light but doesnt really wake my gal up (my gal wil whine n may not listen, she thinks). i hv to wake my gal mysf

[znzyzyzx]

24hr-mum:

she wf me 4yr plus. shes gd to my othr two kids, only critical of my no. 1. start to b not so humble aft 3yrs. shes stil responsible n wks well aft knowg i releasg her. but she jus dont like my elder gal n i decided then i will let her go. eg in the morng she only turn on the light but doesnt really wake my gal up (my gal wil whine n may not listen, she thinks). i hv to wake my gal mysf

Oh, kind of quite similar to mine. My eldest was quite difficult to be woken, and there was one time , she did not wake up for school until when I woke up and find her still in bed. Needless to say, she was late for school that day. My ex-maid just called her once and don't bother to make sure she actually wakes up. Good thing that she is ex now. My current maids, I make sure I tell them (and write down) what exactly they have to do.

[hquek]

well, her salary is no issue - must pay. Anything extra - is based on your happiness. if you feel comfy with giving her extra, by all means go ahead. If you are not happy with her and don’t want to extend that, again by all means don’t give. Just do what you feel most happy with.

[24hr-mum]

i have never read this thread in my past four years of hving a maid, firstly i didnt know abt it even after i joined ksp, 2ndly, my maid was quite a good maid, i thot i didnt need to read this thread to guard anything.

but ironically the past 2 weeks i had started to read from page 1 (until p160 only for now, but will continue reading) after i am releasing my maid.

so far i count myslf blessed, cos my current and soon to be ex maid is my first and only maid. she was wif my godfather’s son for 7 mths until they migrated and since i needed one cos i was preggie wif no. 3, my dh thot of getting a transfer and recommended maid.

in her first two years, she was really good. we deemed her as the perfect maid. so much so my dh joked that we can gv her lifetime employment. she is 36, single, parents died, working just to support her younger siblings who has kids.

we treated her like part of my family, bcos we wanted her to treat my kids well and also i always thot maids are poor things. when she first came, she stayed in my 3rm condo store rm wf my things inside and no windows, just a fan, cos there is no other place already. my mil n bil stayed wif us. all my 3 kids slept wf me and third rm is just a study rm.

i let her read my newsppr in the morning (my mil was shocked) and actually she helped to ‘drive’ out my mil cos we werent in good terms and my mil felt the competition for my kids were even more intense after maid came. she started making unfounded accusations abt my maid and eventually moved out. so u see, my maid was my ‘saviour’. after mil left, i let my maid dine wif us at dining table. even then, and until today, she always eat only after she has fed my kids even if her rice already on the table.

it was generally problem free for us. she took care of my kids well and doted on my bb who is now 4. - i was sahm and now also. i can leave her alone wf my three kids.

i bought her presents for bday, xmas, gave cny angpow of $20, and when 2 yrs was up and i wanted to renew her, she was very happy and said mdm, if u want me, i wil work for u. we gave 50 increment and still no off day cos bb only 2 yrs old.

when we went hk in her first yr wf us, we brought her along cos dh say can take care of our kids. she was very grateful to us.

she started wif 350 and no off day.

she has hp whc she uses only at nite after work. her ex mdm insisted she sleep by 11pm as her ex md was a ftwm and wanted maid to hv energy to take care of her dd durg the day.