All About Full-Time Maids

[verykiasu2010]

cool_hi:

exactly la..A 1st class govt can't even think of such simple protection for their own citizens!!?? really make us PayAndPay!! & yet blame s'poreans for migrating..I feel like the maids are their citizens, NOT us!!

MOM = Ministry of Maids

[POA Teacher]

glenax:

Dear all, i hv a filipino maid that i wish to transfer out. she has worked for me for a year and is quiet and honest. She can be trusted to be alone at home with child. my boy is 3year old and she has been very patient with him. her pay is $450 with every sunday off, if you are keen to take her please email me at [email protected]. Reason that I am transfering her is because her cooking is so so, but if you have a mother/relative to train her she should be fine.

It would be good if employers, who for some reason, wish to transfer out their maids, or who no longer require their maids (eg old folk passed away, or children grown up, or family migrating etc), post on a website (such as this, or that website about maid) so that other employers can chose to employ them directly instead of getting a transfer maid from an agent.

Hopefully the employers would be truthful about the maids' strengths and weaknesses.

[Picolo]

Strange. I only need to pay agency fee of $388 only to get an ex-SIN&HK Indon maid. She was chosen about 2-3 weeks ago and coming end this mth. But the pool of experienced maids is very very small now, it’s a fact.

[peapot]

Piccolo, quite true pool of experienced Indo maid getting smaller. It will get worse starting August. Puasa, no maid wants to come out this period. Sept, Hari Raya also no many maid because their celebrations at least 2 weeks. By then it’s Oct. The maid will wonder why come to Singapore when I can wait another 2 more months for new system to kick in and I can enjoy the off day.


So conclusion, if you must get a Indo maid then better get one now.

[Beanicemum]

Dear all.

Really need opinions from you. I have a maid who is degree holder. We hire her because we hope she can help me take care one of my child ( have two boys, 4.5 and 2.5yrs) when I bring another one go out ( school or enrichment class).

But after she came here, we found she is very quite and no feedback if we ask her do something, example like she just put down the bowl and walk away if she finish feeding the younger one, never say finish not finish . Or just put change on table if I ask her buy something…no tell whether the thing bought or not, how much left , where is the money… Ask her wash vegs, stand there and never say finish or not
finish…

I tell her I need your feedback if I ask you do anything, I can check but something I am very busy with the two boys, so I say you tell me after
you done anything, but no improvement at all, she came here 5 mths already …

And she got some hearing problem, cannot hear clearly, so she will guess and most of the time is not correct if she cannot hear clearly(I cannot remember how many times already to remind her to ask me if did not hear clearly, I will repeat, it is ok) example, we come back from outside and turn on the tv already. She is at kitchen and doesn’t know., I ask her you did not hear, she said’ ya, I did not hear’. Or i ask her take towel and she will take a mop… Many many things like this …Feel very uncomfortable leave the small children to her, but I have no choice as we have no parents to help and husband need travel… But she is nice lady and will follow instruction to do things…

Really do not know whether I should change her or not…

[verykiasu2010]

if she has hearing definitely she got speech problem, unless the hearing problem is a late-in-life injury


wonder how the agency could have recruited such a maid an bring to singapore … another irresponsible agency

[Beanicemum]

She say she got hearing problem because she swim too much before… And she never talk to other maids also, like my neighbour’s one, they won’t talk to each other when they meet at corridor…


We feel she got a very strange character… Cannot say problem, but feel very different from other person, sometime I can hear she talk to herself or saying something…we just guess maybe somthing happened to her before…

[glenax]

Beanicemum:

Dear all.

Really need opinions from you. I have a maid who is degree holder. We hire her because we hope she can help me take care one of my child ( have two boys, 4.5 and 2.5yrs) when I bring another one go out ( school or enrichment class).

But after she came here, we found she is very quite and no feedback if we ask her do something, example like she just put down the bowl and walk away if she finish feeding the younger one, never say finish not finish . Or just put change on table if I ask her buy something..no tell whether the thing bought or not, how much left , where is the money... Ask her wash vegs, stand there and never say finish or not
finish...

I tell her I need your feedback if I ask you do anything, I can check but something I am very busy with the two boys, so I say you tell me after
you done anything,, but no improvement at all, she came here 5 mths already ...

And she got some hearing problem, cannot hear clearly, so she will guess and most of the time is not correct if she cannot hear clearly(I cannot remember how many times already to remind her to ask me if did not hear clearly, I will repeat, it is ok) example, we come back from outside and turn on the tv already. She is at kitchen and doesn't know., I ask her you did not hear, she said' ya, I did not hear'. Or i ask her take towel and she will take a mop... Many many things like this ..Feel very uncomfortable leave the small children to her, but I have no choice as we have no parents to help and husband need travel.. But she is nice lady and will follow instruction to do things...

Really do not know whether I should change her or not...

Personally if after 6 months I still think I cant work with the person, then a change is better. I think the fear is always whether if the next one will be worst but if dont change will never know. If you dont think you can work with her for the long run then best to change.

[mumy84]

Hi...i'm very new in all this maid thing.I'm actually looking for a maid now to look after my 2 kids while i'm out working.Can experienced mummies out there tell me what to look for when choosing a maid?(exp: the years of experienced? )


employing a new maid or transfer maid? :?

[glenax]

mumy84:

Hi...i'm very new in all this maid thing.I'm actually looking for a maid now to look after my 2 kids while i'm out working.Can experienced mummies out there tell me what to look for when choosing a maid?(exp: the years of experienced? )


employing a new maid or transfer maid? :?

Hi personally I am never for new maids, I know some say transfer maids will have learn tricks to skive or learn bad things but I think new maids can only be hired if you are prepared to train them for a good 6mths to a year before they are effective, also they need close monitoring so best to have an elderly or someone at home.

I think new maids are not suitable for working couples because alot of these come from less developed countries so they not even know how to take bus/escalators, switch on stove,operate microwave/electrical appliances, let alone be trusted to look after babies by themselves. So there has to be someone at home to keep an eye on them. Not so much that they will run out or do anything funny but sometimes they forget things or just dont have someone to ask.

I think if you have kids at home, best to look for those with experience with kids, because they can say they love kids and even have kids themselves but alot of maids leave their children behind after giving birth so they never go thru the day to day of looking after kids.

Also best to get those that have experience in Singapore, different countries have different cultures so if they worked in other countries before coming here, they need another 2-3 months to orientate themselves.

Of course there will be a salary difference between new and transfer but the difference is minimal so better to go for the experienced ones.