Myanmar maids
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the salary really getting higher. I checked these few days, B Maid now asking min $400 salary with offday. Worse for P and I…
so exp now… not to forget the loan, agency fee etc not included… -
Yeah lor. Mine is $420 and need to compensate additional $20 for no off day. This is for fresh maid. Will be more for those contracted next year as need to compensate them for 4 off days. Nowadays, very limited biodata available and passport issuance very restricted. If selecting maids with no passport, check the contract termination clause carefully, ie refund of service fees. If maid cannot get passport, they may try to push those with passport or transfer maid to you.
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The agency we used to patronize doesn’t want to bring in Myanmar maids as they are not popular. Even indon ones may take long time to come over bcos of passport…or the lack of it. All maids are the same…they are expensive to maintain and will show black face.
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You are so right. Pay money still have to suffer. If I show black-face at boss, will get a record for behavioral problem.
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Coolkidsrock2:
You are so right. Pay money still have to suffer. If I show black-face at boss, will get a record for behavioral problem.
Have to feed them and house them.
If they have off day, let them go...when they have to take transport and buy lunch & dinner, then they will know how expensive things are.
I know when they showed black face...but I pretend not to see. I am employer and I have to see their black face. -
At first I didn’t give off days to my maid and since I am sending her off , I decided to give her day off to enjoy for a few months . U know what? She demanded 2 off days per mth after 2 outing !
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after one year having my burmese maid, I will have to say I am happy to have her than my previous Phinoy maid. My phinoy maid yucked non stop while my burmese maid rarely used the phone when I am around. I asked my elder DS before and he also said seldom see auntie using the phone. My burmese maid likes cooking and she often will try to cook different dishes (she needs to cook twice a day, lunch & dinner). On her days off (i gave her twice a month though she only requested for one), she will wake up early and do all the housework first even though I am okay if she does not do it. I told her she can leave at 10am and she will wait for me and ask okay for her to go out now, then she will leave the house. She never breaks the curfew of 8pm to return back home. Unlike my phinoy who would leave the house before 7am during her off day!
It is true, they tend to be \"slower\" than phinoys as they are from the village and also they are more \"straight\" (they dun beat around the bush). But so far DH and I really have not much complains except she digs her nose openly!
DH often saw it while I never. But there was once I finally saw it and told her nicely and after that she never dig her nose openly anymore
One thing I do feel that it will be better to get e Christian burmese maid. Mine is a Christian from village and she prays everynight, kneeling down. Also sometimes it all boil down to luck whether you get a good one or not. I am grateful to have this current one as my family depends on maid to function cause no grandparents to help look after. Hope she continue to be good
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happy to be mum:
If Myanmar maids are slower than Filipinos, it's ok if they are willing to learn...just like why I employed Indon in the beginning.My burmese maid likes cooking and she often will try to cook different dishes (she needs to cook twice a day, lunch & dinner). On her days off (i gave her twice a month though she only requested for one), she will wake up early and do all the housework first even though I am okay if she does not do it. I told her she can leave at 10am and she will wait for me and ask okay for her to go out now, then she will leave the house. She never breaks the curfew of 8pm to return back home. Unlike my phinoy who would leave the house before 7am during her off day!
It is true, they tend to be \"slower\" than phinoys as they are from the village and also they are more \"straight\" (they dun beat around the bush).
Last maid I had was a filipino...desperate at that time...so took transfer maid. We had agreement NO OFF DAY for first 3 months. But we go out often and bring her along. Then she said wants to meet her aunty. In short, her nonsense started very fast. I had no qualms sending her off. -
janet_lee88:
U r right. Once meet her aunty and handphone starts, very like is also the start of all the nonsense.[
If Myanmar maids are slower than Filipinos, it's ok if they are willing to learn...just like why I employed Indon in the beginning.
Last maid I had was a filipino...desperate at that time...so took transfer maid. We had agreement NO OFF DAY for first 3 months. But we go out often and bring her along. Then she said wants to meet her aunty. In short, her nonsense started very fast. I had no qualms sending her off. -
i think it really depends on the maids…whether they are "automatically" or not. My current one when she started with me does not have a phone as she has broken her previous phone. I bought her a cheap Nokia phone and she was clearly touched by it and never abused it. Recently my friend’s Phinoy maid also willing to "surrender" her phone to my friend during the day time as she said she cannot control herself for using it. I told my friend, your phinoy maid is still good as she is "willing" to do so! rare for phinoys! To me, I feel that sometimes the more you don’t allow them to do certain things, the more they want to do it, so try giving them more "freedom". At least I know my maid wun get herself stuck in the toilets for long time just to use her phone secretly or pretend to go downstairs and buy things just to use the public phones…
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