Anyone has a good PT maid to recommend for westerners? I need one for 3 times a week.

Angelight:

Burmese maids also have alot of pride,

Yah, I have to agree on this. So much so that my soon-to-be helper won't greet us ever, and even if she knocked into us, or spoilt our things, she would never ever say sorry. Or thank you.

So what’s the contract for, if not to bind each other? Like my maid. The moment she finished her loan, she cockily exclaimed that she wanted to leave. Wah, like that win already. Contract for what?!


Anyway, thanks to all for your advice. Guess we are sending her back to her country. Grant her the wish. But not going to tell her when. Hiak hiak. I only told her before Aug 15.

Anyone knows about how to decorate a bathroom for good fengshui? I read that the wealth of a family is in the bathroom. Heh.

Experienced employers, please advise.


My maid asked to go home, and we decided to let her go.

Questions:

(1) Anyone knows of a good place to buy cheap air tickets to Myanmar?

(2) I don’t have to notify the agency, do I?

(3) This is for my husband. If we don’t want to send her back, is it ok to send her back to agency? If so, must we still pay for her lodging since maid was the one who said she doesn’t want to work for us.

Thanks!

Actually the reason I let them have handphones is simple. They almost don’t have a life here so it’ll be nice to have a phone and they can at least communicate with friends. In the end she used the phone all the time. I had to step in a few times and stopped her. There were many times I stepped out of my room to see her in her room. When she saw me she would pretend to rearrange things. Despite warnings of keeping her phone, I’m reluctant to do I since it’s her phone and she’s 34 or so. I would think she has more self control than that.


As for off days I gave my maid cos she said she has relatives here. So I thought again it would be nice to be able to meet some people whom she can communicate easily and without restrictions. But in the end I think she went out to meet guys more than relatives.

jtoh:

Her boyfriend wrote to her in English? Terrible, these maids.

I doubt it's boyfriend since she writes to many guys. And one goes by the name of bala.

Oh did I mention she brought back bed bugs?

In the contract, it’s stated that we should pay for her air ticket, no matter who terminate the contract. So yah, I guess it’s us.


Anyway, I have enough of her lies. I’ll probably tell her she will go back, but at the end of July (which just nice brings her to a year of work; she’s a transfer maid btw; only with me for 7 months or so) and I’ll still want to keep the $500.

Yes, she came here to play. I once checked her phone and the guy said something like, "I thought you said you’re going to f*** me before you go back to Myanmar?"

In December, she already said once that her mother was critically ill. We didn’t like that she so casually just assumed she wanted to go, and we had to let her go. I told her she could go back if she paid me the rest of the loan and she never mentioned going back again, until March, when her loan was paid. It was the same case in March. The fact is she has a contract with us. How can we let her go off so easily?! She just assumed she gave us notice and we should let her go.

Since she could wait from December till March, I don’t see how she couldn’t wait till July.

In actual fact, we do want her to go. She’s a nightmare. But I’m staying at my mum’s temporarily so will let her go when we get our new place in July.

I think these maids think they can come here and it’s easy life. And when reality bites, they just want to pack and go back.

Yes as I mentioned, will let her go. Just on my terms not hers.

Hi there


I need advice. My FDW has just finished her loan, and on the month (March) she finished paying her loan, she told us sob story of how her mom was going to die (we know it's not true because she's always of good appetite; singing; having fun with guys, telling my mum that her mum has died 2 days before, etc) and she wanted to terminate the contract and go home.

Since I knew it wasn't true, I told her to show me a doctor's letter with hospital letterhead and doctor's stamp.

Today I received the letter. It's photocopied, translated but there were some unclear parts, and no, no indication of seriousness of illness. When she showed me the letter and I rejected it, saying it wasn't how I wanted it, she sobbed and sobbed and went back to her room to mob (but her eyes after weren't even red).

So, eventually when we let her go, I want to let her go only as home leave since she still has not finished her 2-year contract. So I'm not going to allow her to take away all her belongings, and we're going to keep $500 which will be given back to her if she returns. Is that fair & just? We are even allowing her to go off for a full month. But we do know she has no intention to come back.

Right now, since she just finished her loan, she still doesn't have $500 in the bank yet though