All About Full-Time Maids

[24hr-mum]

just a poll, how many of ur maids ever buy things for your family using own money? like little treats?? my friend’s maid who stole her supplement actually ever buy icecream for her kids…unfortunately mine just bring some home made food when she returned from hm leave last time.

there was once she bought yakult and 100+ on her time off but when my elder gal took yakult (both me and my gal didnt know bought by maid cos i also gave maid money to buy lunch so i thot she use bal money to buy for my kids), my maid asked her: who buy one?? and she buy hairclip only for no 3 tho my elder girl also long hair

[minami]

24hr-mum,

my maid never buy things for my family. i wouldn’t expect her to anyway. When she started hooking up on FB, she got so addicted so couldn’t stop checking on it during working hours till i have to confiscate her phone and give her a stern warning.

[LOLMum]

i prefer them not to buy things for us. but once in a while, they bought things for my kids (nothing expensive).


i prefer they whipped up delicious treats for us even though i am paying for the stuff.

[24hr-mum]

another poll: do any of ur maids on their last day, question u why nvr give extra (ie bonus）after working for xxx yrs for u, or question why so little bonus??

ur response??

[24hr-mum]

actually i also dont expect my maid to buy anything for us, but if she ever buy, i dont want her to gv me problem by saying only some of my kids can eat, some cannot (favoritism), cos my kids wil think that anything in the fridge or in the hse is all bought by me and eat them accidentally.


imagine if i have two maids and i buy things only for 1 of them??

[minami]

24hr-mum:

another poll: do any of ur maids on their last day, question u why nvr give extra (ie bonus）after working for xxx yrs for u, or question why so little bonus??

ur response??

For my previous maids who left, i gave them extra in ang pows at the very last minute (one before left with agent and the other before she check in at the airport. They never questioned me on the extras.

[Funz]

24hr-mum:

just a poll, how many of ur maids ever buy things for your family using own money? like little treats?? my friend's maid who stole her supplement actually ever buy icecream for her kids.....unfortunately mine just bring some home made food when she returned from hm leave last time.

there was once she bought yakult and 100+ on her time off but when my elder gal took yakult (both me and my gal didnt know bought by maid cos i also gave maid money to buy lunch so i thot she use bal money to buy for my kids), my maid asked her: who buy one?? and she buy hairclip only for no 3 tho my elder girl also long hair

My helper does. She will buy presents for my kids on their birthdays and christmas. On her off days, she will come home with either cakes from bengawan solo or bread from breadtalk for us. When she went on home leave, she came back with a whole luggage of mangoes, buah keluak and keropok.

[moom]

When my maid left, I gave her a 2 month bonus because I felt she was good all the 5 years she was with us. She never gave us cause for worry as she did not fool around, did her work well, was honest n reliable. Only problem was she occasionally would give black face when not happy n it was more frequent n evident in the last year she was with us. She got gradual increments over the years with us till we reached abt 500 dollars, this was in addition to 3 Sundays off per month n $100 angpow for her bday n cny.


They are here to earn a living for their families and having been maidless for abt 4 months now, I appreciate that it is rather tiring being a 'full-time' maid. So even though, there was some unhappiness over the last 6 months or so, we felt we wanted to show our appreciation for all the good hard work she had put in the previous years.

She was happy n to me, it does not matter if she will be grateful etc.. Just
that our conscience is clear n that we have rewarded her according to how
generally fuss free her time with us has been.

She did not buy us gifts, only once she got a box of dunkin donuts for the
kids from the airport after home leave.. That's fine as there money is really hard earned

So when your helper leaves, give her what you feel she deserves n the amount you feel justified in giving.

Just my honest opinion

[hquek]

24hr-mum:

another poll: do any of ur maids on their last day, question u why nvr give extra (ie bonus）after working for xxx yrs for u, or question why so little bonus??

ur response??

No. 2nd maid left before her 2 year up. I can't remember and don't think I gave her any extra cash. Maybe some present in kind, but definitely no cash. I even got her to buy her own luggage.

Anyway, should such a maid like yours dare question, just look at her and smile and say I follow what's on the contract. Full stop. Nonid to entertain her with full story.

[POA Teacher]

I gave my maid a big bonus when she went on home leave several years ago. Big mistake I think :siao: Cos now she's probably expecting something similar.

Previously their salaries were much lower than current salaries, so my thought then was \"poor thing, work for so little $\" that's why I gave the big bonus. But now salaries have gone up by high %.......so how, next time?