All About Full-Time Maids
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My maid and our Hari Raya tale.... This is her second trip home in 2 years. I told reminded her not to overload the luggage. Max is 25kg - 10 for handcarry, 15 for check in. She told me it is 25 add-together - just nice. But that was a week before departure. Upon check in, luggage overweight by 10kg!! Refused to repack and take out those GOLD like shampoo, bath foam, conditioner, frying pan, etc. :stupid: Asked my MIL to help her pay first that $200 first.
Then arrived in Indonesia, but had to stay 2 nights in town to make that silly KTKLN card because the queue was so long! So, 3rd day, finally arrived home.
Called me 10mins after her scheduled departure time back to Singapore!! :scared: She missed the flight entirely! Traffic jam. Asked us to buy her a new ticket - cost $280.
And then, she told me, make the KTKLN card cost money. And then, the airport decided to increase the tax from 20k to 150k = $25. So end up no more taxi fare money we gave her and came back by MRT. Then, open the back, she brought back 2 huge bunch of GREEN bananas. :slapshead: -
today my maid trying her luck by saying wat if she to get married, can take one mth leave??? i told her finish ur two yr contract la. she is only one mth with us. one bloody terror :s hmph!
i wanna kno… do maids allowed/entitled a home leave b4 her contract finishes? pls kindly enlighten me tis. tQ -
shebeautiful: is this the same maid you mentioned previously? Thought she's a gone case? Well, I only have had maids for 2 yrs plus, but I let my maid go home for the Hari Raya. She is married, mid-30s, and has two teenage girls. As a parent myself, I feel that it is important for her to see her children; and as someone whom has worked overseas, I know first hand how it feels like missing home and family.
Her work is only so-so, attitude so so, but she is quite stable emotionally and she is honest. about a year or so after she joined us, I asked her if she wanted to go back for Raya, and I let her. And I intend to let her go home every year - although this is not in the contract; and she never did once bargain with me over home leave issue. Last year, she went home for 17 days. This year, she went back for 10 (minus 3 days @ KTKLN; plus 1 day extra at airport!!)
So, really, it depends on whether you think your maid is worth it, and whether you can spare the time off. I took leave to take care of my son - but I kinda enjoy spending time with my cheeky monster! In any event, since you are not liable for giving paid home leave, they could always pay for themselves, if push comes to shore and she MUST go home for some reason... but bringing this up after first month - what... she thinks she's in that great terms with you, is it? :scratchhead:
Oh,... and withheld her pay - one mth for the time they are away, and one month just in case they do not come back! Something a neighbor mentioned yesterday. -
sigh… yes straffan. the same maid. i tolerated. anyways… i jus got to kno tt shes only 23 instead of 29yrs old!!! i wonder how can they lie abt their age n its stated in their passport! is it the works ther in indonesia? sigh
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Shebeautiful: I hate to tell you this, but unfortunately that is what happens in the 3rd world countries. I was told that you need the village head to sign off some documents to (1) record a birth, or (2) to get a passport done. Sometimes, (1) is done together with (2) so anyhow can do. Some instances, however, they are a few years older - the village head consolidates the births and report them to the authorities every few years.
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shebeautiful:
sigh... yes straffan. the same maid. i tolerated. anyways.. i jus got to kno tt shes only 23 instead of 29yrs old!!! i wonder how can they lie abt their age n its stated in their passport! is it the works ther in indonesia? sigh
23 instead of 29 is not too bad.
In most cases they are ~17 passing off as 23 or 24.
And I've heard of 50+ passing off as ~40 -
shes here for 5 yrs already… means start off at 18. tsk tsk
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shebeautiful:
shes here for 5 yrs already.. means start off at 18. tsk tsk
i got to know my indon maid was actually 28 years but her ppt stated otherwise... :yikes:
It stated in the ppt that she is 31... :slapshead:
She told me in her country the govern authorities can actually alter with their age at the ppt according to the country age requirement they going to be employed ... :scared: -
POA Teacher:
My sis told me in M'sia, it's worse ....shebeautiful:
sigh... yes straffan. the same maid. i tolerated. anyways.. i jus got to kno tt shes only 23 instead of 29yrs old!!! i wonder how can they lie abt their age n its stated in their passport! is it the works ther in indonesia? sigh
23 instead of 29 is not too bad.
In most cases they are ~17 passing off as 23 or 24.
And I've heard of 50+ passing off as ~40
13 passing Off as 18! :roll: -
The domestic worker of my next-door, came knock on my door and asks me to see something on facebook.
A continuation from the previous blog post: Citi-ASKI 4th Commencement Exercise – Graduation Ceremony.
http://shiroiluke.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/video-testimony-by-graduates-of-aski-global-limited/
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