All About Full-Time Maids
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I'm starting to think that I may just have to do without a maid.
At first this maid was very promising. She was very cheerful, very polite, seemed to be adapting well and fast. The only weird thing was that she kept asking about our personal details and about how long my first maid lasted, and why my first maid left.
I brushed all these concerns aside, cos I thought that she was just being chatty.
Then the pattern started showing. First it was the phone, then it was the dishes left to pile up in the sink. Next it was a case of clothes being left to dry for 3 or more days, and ironed clothes being returned after at least 2 weeks. :frustrated: She's only doing housework, and not even looking after my kid. A lot of days, she only has to clean 2 to 3 rooms but she never seems to be able to finish the chores on time. My apartment is small and there really isn't that many chores to do.
Now I realised that she asks so many questions because she wants to compare and store info that may be useful to her. She keeps asking us where we are going, and what time we are coming back, to keep track of our whereabouts. And when i went on a recent trip, I refused to tell her when we were coming back but made sure she had enough food and stuff to last her. My parents also stayed with her. Somehow, she managed to con my mum into telling her when we were coming back by asking if we were coming back on a certain day. :scared: :yikes: How conniving!
And she actually let 2 strangers into the house when we were not around, although I've told her not, and it's stated in the houserules! :mad: She didn't even call me to check if we were expecting the ppl, and only told me after I came back. She would have actually let them into my bedroom if I hadn't locked it! -
It's really all about luck. My friend chose her maid without interviewing, and chose a short one, about 1.45m, even though the agency advised her not to.
What a gem my friend got! Her maid looks after her children and does the housework. Her maid cleans the houses of her parents when she goes over there with the children, even though my friend has asked her not to. When she goes back to my friend's house, she continues to do the housework as well. She even vacuumed the floor every day until my friend asked her to stop!
My friend appreciates her maid, and gives her monthly bonuses of up to $50 depending on how well the maid has performed. And my friend lets the maid keep her hp because she's earned their trust, even though the maid is looking after 2 young kids. -
Wow! That’s so unheard of these days. What nationality may I ask?
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Peapot, you asking about my friend's maid? She's indo, and speaks better english than my ex and current maids. I keep asking my friend if her maid has a twin ,or a sister!
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Do you know which maid agency ?
I ever heard that usually the short maid do the housework better than taller one.
they are more hardworking like my 1st maid… -
I’m not sure but I think it’s nation. Then again, not all their branches or maids may be good.
Maybe short maids are just grateful that someone chose them despite their height?
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I observe from biodata that 9 out of 10 maids from indo are rather short around 150cm, :scratchhead: by nature?
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not so sure about indo maids’ heights cos I don’t usually go for them. But I’ve seen quite a few indo maids around my area that are as tall as, or even taller than, me.
But if they are from the poorer areas, the lack of nutrition may have contributed to shorter heights. -
So far the 2 indo maids I have quite short. My current myan one is fairly tall in comparison (1.6something).
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Would appreciate some input here. My current maid started slacking off after the first month, and i suspect she’s also unhappy with me that i refuse to pay for her ridiculous phone bills.
I don’t scold her but give her weekly reviews on her work. If she does something well, i will praise her. Her reviews were quite okay for the first month, but her work in the second month was horrible. I just told her very calmly that taking more than 2 hours to wash less than 10 pieces of clothes is unacceptable, and so is taking more than 2 weeks to iron a few pieces of clothes. In fact, i give her an hour every day for ironing.
She scratched my windows, my new shower screen, and even my car, but i just told her the correct procedures again and didn’t even scold her. But my mum feels that i shouldn’t even correct her! Cos she’s worried of what the maid will do behind our backs.
Yesterday was the ultimate. All this while, she will ocassionally bypass me and go to my husband for instructions, especially when it’s for things she knows i won’t approve of. She did all these when i wasn’t around. But yesterday, she was bold enough to bypass me completely and just kept going to my husband for instructions, even when i was around! And of course, she would always talk to him smilingly and gently. i guess she was super unhappy when i told her again that she was taking too long to do the laundry- 1 and half hours for 6 pieces!
Yesterday evening, she actually folded and kept clothes that were still very damp!
Am i being too picky? Or should i just close both eyes like what my mum suggests?
I told my husband not to entertain the maid anymore and to tell her to ask me for instructions. Am i being too petty?
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