All About Full-Time Maids

[LOLMum]

Haha, she won’t pass her maid to anyone , friend or family. Not even friend"s friend.


I guess she didn’t want Maid to talk about her family with these pp she know.

Return to agency is what she does. The maid can talk about her with her new employer (stranger) for all she cares.

[Funx3]

jtoh:

Was the maid the one who told you the reasons for her short stints in each of her 5 employers? These are actually very common reasons maids will supply when asked why they didn't complete their contract. Most common - Ah Ma died. Other common reasons - Employer got retrenched. No money to hire maid anymore. Or employer didn't pay salary.


If you really want to hire, call up MOM to verify if her case was indeed under investigation. And ask her for the contact numbers of her ex-employers and see what they have to say about her.

Personally I wouldn't hire her.

Just Curious, Anyone Has check in MOM, if We can get Info about Ex-Spore, Or Current Spore Maid WP History?
Some General Info Like -
How many years maid work in Spore, and
How Many Prev Employers they Work for B4?
And .... Reason for Leaving?

Coz when We Apply / Cancel WP, Think These R Some of the Data we Have to Key in.
So the Info Shd be there in MOM ....

[Karl12]

Thanks everyone for all the great advices…

Really appreciate.

Oh yes, i am wondering, if we manage to get the maid’s work permit no.
Can we go to MOM website to check ourselves? Need to pay a fee?

Its like, seems tat they can only tell u selectively what they wan u to hear.
Like those v short terms one they wont say until i ask from that agency for the MOM record, then i can see her real history.
What if the agency dont show the record?

THe one i went is those really small one at far east shopping center, then there is a bunch of maid seating outside.
Then when i told the person i am interested in these 3, they are actually some of those maids hanging outside
then she just called them in one by one.
Is this common to only smaller agency or big agency also have such "face to face" interview?

[plc]

Use your singpass, go to mom and look for WP online. With the maid’s work permit no. able to check for no. of ex employers and time frame that the maid is/was working in Singapore, but not the reason. Unless the agent is honest enough to tell you (which sometimes they are not) or request to speak to the former employer.


Had an agent,…who was not honest,…until i checked the WP online,…then found out that i was employer no 8 or 9,…mostly short stints, instead of employer no.3 as informed! Decided to check wponline, as i thought i always had extra $$, but can’t think what i had spent it on. Also, the maid was getting happier & happier,…ie helping herself to my wallet,…$10 or $50 or more whenever there is extra. Didn’t bother to ask the maid about the short stints. Won’t be surprised that she helped herself to my children’s savings!! For the time frame of 1.5years,…probably took about $5,000! She had a very relaxing job as the children are teenagers, normal household chores, cooking and the pet.

Packed her up,…without notice,…did everything quietly,.even the agent doesn’t know that we had sent her back. After sending her off, i reported her to the police and then wrote to MOM to blacklist her. The police said that i should have let her stay in Singapore, until they charge her. I asked with who? In my house?..no way, don’t think the agent would help.

On hind side,…the short-stints,…the longest was 9months, could be due to the "itchy hands",…but the previous employer just packed her off to the agent again, as they do not want the hassle of??

Had a transfer maid who had worked with me, on & off 3 times,…total about 8 years or more!

You need abit of luck. All the best in maid-looking!

[POA Teacher]

Karl12:

Thanks everyone for all the great advices...

Really appreciate.

Oh yes, i am wondering, if we manage to get the maid's work permit no.
Can we go to MOM website to check ourselves? Need to pay a fee?

Its like, seems tat they can only tell u selectively what they wan u to hear.
Like those v short terms one they wont say until i ask from that agency for the MOM record, then i can see her real history.
What if the agency dont show the record?

THe one i went is those really small one at far east shopping center, then there is a bunch of maid seating outside.
Then when i told the person i am interested in these 3, they are actually some of those maids hanging outside
then she just called them in one by one.
Is this common to only smaller agency or big agency also have such \"face to face\" interview?

Karl, the maids you see hanging around in the agent's office are transfer maids, waiting to be interviewed.
ALL agencies, big or small, have such maids. NO agency brings in only good maids. They do not recruit the maids themselves. They depend on the local agents in their home countries to get the maids. So they don't know anything abt the maids, even their ages (if you take a look at the girls, you'll notice that most of them are teenagers). Anyway they don't care whether the maids are good or not. Problematic maids that keep getting transferred = more profitable for the agency as they add on additional charges to the maid for each transfer.
Yes, you can go to MOM website yourself and key in the maid's WP number to see her employment records (but not info abt the employers).

[shine_fs]

shine_fs:

shine_fs:

Just to share my story of my new maid.


She came to my house on 13/01/2012. 5 days later, when I reached home after work, she shown me her hands, is look like someone pinched. I asked her how she got the pinched marks, she replied dunno. I told her maybe when she do the housework and knocked and she kept saying no.

I found abit weird, so I asked her what she wants me to do. She said, I just want to \"highlight\" to you cos I might carries virus which I dunno and might pass it to your sons. After hearing, I am very sure and confirmed that she made up the story herself by pinching her hands. Then she can go back to agent don't want to look after my sons. I told her that will inform the agent.

Next day, she told me can't work and want to go back to agent. I called the agent and she got scolded by the agent. Strange, after scolding, she was happier and kept saying sorry to me and promised to work for my family. So, everything’s went smoothly during CNY.

My worries finally arrived last evening, she told me again wanted to go back to the agent.

Employing a maid is really by luck....

I thot everything's went smoothly during CNY....but last evening I heard from my hubby about my maid asking for help when my friend came to my house on 初一 night.....here's the story....

One of my friend brought her new maid to my house and the two maids were chatting in the kitchen. As I know that the maids like to gossip, so I asked my friend's maid to come out and look after my friend's son.

Too my shock, my friend's maid(3 days later) told my friend she can't sleep must tell my friend that my maid asked for help. She told my friend my maid complained that she goes to bed every nights at 1am and wake up 530am....

The worse part was she told my friend that I scolded my maid by pointing middle finger and scold her vulgar language :yikes:

I am very :stompfeet: cos all the above is not true...my maid finished the housework around 9 to 10pm, and went to bed around 11am. Everynights I will ask her to sleep earlier but she replied,\"mdm, I don't sleep so early, normally I sleeps at 12am+\". When I heard that, I told her cannot cos morning she needs to wake up at 530am to 6am. So, she will sleep around 11am.

Now who is lying? What should I do now?

Just want to share my story again :

I fired the maid and got a new maid last mth (waited 2 mths). She is 27 years old and has 3 daughters, age : 6, 3, 2 years old. I tot with 3 kids, she can take care of my 2 sons...but I was wrong.....she can't even take care of them.

When she was with me a week, she cried and told me wanted to go back Philippines cos she misses her kids and will ask her MIL (50 yrs old) to replace her :slapshead: I had a talked with her and she decided to work again and I let her called home.

She told when she was in Philippines, she wanted to \"back out\" during her POEA seminar. But the agency in Singapore told her that she can't \"back out\" must come and will help her when she is in Singapore.... :rant: So I called the agency and scolded them what kind of promised she give to the maid. Now she don't want to work.

Few days later, she asked me whether she can let her call home evernight? After consideration (cos she misses her kids) I agree to let her call back once a week and she agreed.

More problems coming......

1. She asked for off day after her loan finished.
2. She want to watch TV
3. She want to go out with us...hinting...she is lonely when alone in the house.

Last week, she told my mum can't cope if my mum goes back to work. Oh man, she only looking after my 2 kids.....Finally, last Sat she said want to go back agency. I was really pissed off and told her off.

Had a talk with my hubby, no more maid in our house once this maid transfer. :imcool:

:xedfingers: Hopefully, I can cope with work, housework and family...

[Hard Truth]

plc:

Had an agent,..who was not honest,..until i checked the WP online,..then found out that i was employer no 8 or 9,..mostly short stints, instead of employer no.3 as informed! Decided to check wponline, as i thought i always had extra $$, but can't think what i had spent it on. Also, the maid was getting happier & happier,..ie helping herself to my wallet,..$10 or $50 or more whenever there is extra. Didn't bother to ask the maid about the short stints. Won't be surprised that she helped herself to my children's savings!! For the time frame of 1.5years,..probably took about $5,000!

Had a transfer maid who had worked with me, on & off 3 times,..total about 8 years or more!

You need abit of luck. All the best in maid-looking!

\" i thought i always had extra $$, but can't think what i had spent it on. Also, the maid was getting happier & happier,..ie helping herself to my wallet,..$10 or $50 or more whenever there is extra.\"

I too can be happy working for you if you can keep on forgetting what you have in your wallet! She managed to fool you for 1.5yrs getting away with 5K?? :rotflmao:

\"Had a transfer maid who had worked with me, on & off 3 times,..total about 8 years or more!\"

You are probably happy with this maid. I am curious because how do you pull the \"on and off\" method to get this person to work for you for 8 years? :?

[Hard Truth]

LOLMum:

Recently went to a friend's house, new maid again.


My friend is the super fussy sort.

By her own admission, the maid is okay, but she thinks there is another better one out there. So when her maid has almost paid off the loan, she would be out looking foe new maid. Been like that for the past few years. So all her maids' record is - didn't finish contract.

Your friend did not mind having to incur extra costs in changing maid?

Just as she thinks that there is a better one out there, she could be getting one that is worse than the previous one! She must be pretty lucky so far, as she has managed to survive them during the \"loan\" period without the nerve recking incidents that we read about here.

[LOLMum]

2 or 3 were free replacements.


Lucky or not,I don’t know.

[nms1]

Hard Truth:

LOLMum:

Recently went to a friend's house, new maid again.


My friend is the super fussy sort.

By her own admission, the maid is okay, but she thinks there is another better one out there. So when her maid has almost paid off the loan, she would be out looking foe new maid. Been like that for the past few years. So all her maids' record is - didn't finish contract.

Your friend did not mind having to incur extra costs in changing maid?

Just as she thinks that there is a better one out there, she could be getting one that is worse than the previous one! She must be pretty lucky so far, as she has managed to survive them during the \"loan\" period without the nerve recking incidents that we read about here.

Personally I think that is very unfair to the maid especially if she ends up having to go home, not being able to find a transfer. They incur a big expense to come here and most of them are serious about earning money for their families; they are not toys.