After a while, she ask if her mum can send over a hp which contains picture and video of her son. I ask why u need the hp. U can ask your mother to send photo. She say video and photo not the same. I did not agree. The photo of her son come though....
During the days I am at work, she will be at my mum place with baby. That is where she have all her phone call. I heard from my mum that sometimes her family call, she can talk on the phone non stop for 1 hour! I already say, no phone call during the day as I wanted her full attention on the child. They can call in the evening time. I let this matter rest as I feel that as long as she take care of the child well.. such things I can choose to close my eyes.
For the short 7 months here, she follow us to 2 holidays. I paid for her expenses and after every trip she end up like dead hog, I have to clean and pack the stuff... I never let her finish all the tasks. I see that her clothes are old and I bought her new clothes. She din even have to fork a single cent when staying with us. We bring her out whenever we bring baby out during weekend.
Even the weekend when we are at home, I will help to finish the household chores. I have planned a time table for her to follow, but she never did. I reminded her that floor at my mum place has to be mop like 3 times a week, she only mop twice. I reminded that baby mattress cover to have iron cos she has allergy, she only iron for a few months and now not at all. I reminded that cover to have change twice a week, now she only change once a week. All these I can still live with it.
At my own place, she did not follow what I requested as well.. I can live with it. Her daily schedule is Morning wake up at 5.30, clean herself then baby wake up at 6 where she will clean up baby and get ready to go my mum place. I prepared my own breakfast. At my mum place she only wash baby stuffs like clothes and milk bottles. Sometimes she help with ironing of clothes and simple cleaning. My mum's kitchen is quite messy, plastic bag all over the place. I only see her pack 1 time when she 1st come and I requested so... other than that she never pack, the cabinets never wipe.
Then whole day she just take care of the baby, cook baby food, clean up baby. When baby sleep, she bath and watch TV. In the evening time, she followed us back home with the baby, clean up baby while I bath. Then I will coax baby to sleep. She dun even have to make baby sleep. She is practically free at 8 plus. I seldom ask her to do work in the evening. Thinking that its quite tiring in the day time to take care of the baby. During weekends, I even let her sleep late, though baby wake up around the same timing, I will wake up to take care of baby...But all these she never appreciate!
Last evening, she tell her after 2 more month, her loan with the agency (getting full month pay). Previously during CNY, her ang bao money amount to 150 bucks, we give it to her and she TT back to her mother. From then till now, what she want to buy, I pay for her. But she is not contented... now that she is getting her full pay soon, she want to buy a hp! I ask her, U forget that the 1st thing when I interview u, what I say? She say yes, she rem but she want to get permission to buy... and please!....with tears like going to come out....
I ask her why she needed the hp, she say at night she cannot sleep, boring... can communicate with her family via SMS! I tell her I let u rest early so that day time u not tired... I also know day time taking care of the baby is tiring that is why I let u rest early! U boring cannot sleep u do house work loh! I ask her, u got see b4 that maid work non stop till late late then next morning still have to wake up early one?
I ask her why u wanna spend the money where not as if I dun allow u to call home! I allow her to use the house phone when her family call, also let her call home using the card. She tell me something diff to say over phone! Woh lau! She need to type to communicate!
I tell her, u think phone and phone card very cheap? 1 sms to your family is 50 cents, 1 sms receive is 50 cents, U can control meh... if they keep sms u.... U pay and pay... if u think u wanna spend all these money then u should not be working. Why u come here to work? Is to earn money, if you dun save now, how u going to buy things back? (because she always ask me how much is this and that, she wanna buy back. My house got the ikea pots for $14 she also wanna buy to keep and bring back)
I tell her, since u got another 2 more months, u go and think abt it 1st then we talk again. She ask me, if after 2 more months she still want the hp and WILLING to pay... will I allow her. She is pressing me for an answer. I HATE IT WHEN PPL FORCE ME TO THE WALL.... I tell her we will talk again in 2 months time.
My blood is boiling and yet I cannot release... thinking that given her stubborn character, if I say NO right away, she might be revengeful and take it upon the baby. I cannot quit my job and stay at home. Thus I have to be under her mercy! and I hate this. At work I have to take all the nonsense and back home I have to take her nonsense.
These kind of ppl, they dun know wat is good... I try to be the nice MDM who give her almost all freedom. When we are out there, she can go and talk to other maid, which I never stop her. What she ask for I buy for her... btw, she dun even need to cook. Lao Niang cook for the family and her. She can even tell me, I like this food and that food.
Lao Niang too good liao... ppl dun know how to appreciate. She haven see how nasty I can be... these ppl huh, they do all these nonsense and cannot blame why the Mdm is so nasty and make them work like shit... cos if u dun make them work, they tell u they boring... cannot sleep... need HP to sms. CRAZY!
I was damm pissed that I couldn't sleep well last night and I am not feeling sleepy now... cos my blood is still boiling like mad! Now I can truly understand why a lot of people say, U cannot treat this kind of people good one... cos they no brain think... I thought it was quite nasty ... but now I no longer do.
19 comments:
wah lau... u are too good an employer man..
and yeah i agree with u, u cant be too nasty with her cos baby is with her all the time..
too good and ganna bully like this.... cant take this man!
I think I have to got a back up plan in the case if i really cannot tahan then I kick her back to her kumpong and she can go there and sms all she wants!
yeah lor....
The next thing u see is her mother keep calling her, her relatives start calling some whom she din even know who they are -------> this is too much.... why, they checking on spore line, stable or not ah......
after every trip she end up like dead hog ----> so tired meh ??? but in spore, she cant sleep wor, wanna communicate via SMS wor.....
change maid lor...
hey since ur gal quite grown up liao perhaps can consider puttin at childcare instead? At least u won't b at the maid's "mercy". I had the same problem as u. Too gd to the maid liao but alas they dunno how to appreciate & will "de chun jin chi". No pt talkin sense into them one. Not dat im a racist but their brain really cannot tink properly.
my husband's granny had a young maid and she was always on the hp talking/ smsing like nobody business. When she was in the car travelling with us, she was talking on the phone so loudly and laughing away. I got a bit pissed off. Not one time incident. Even when she was doing housework with guests ard, she also talked so loudly on the phone like she is the owner of the hse. It seemed that she was addicted using the phone. After tolerating her for quite some time, the aunties then decided to sack her.
i feel that your maid is taking advantage of you and ur kindness.
it's not like u are strict or unreasonable, u do give her a lot of freedom and so she should know where to draw the lines.
if u really feel very strongly against her having the hp.. u can talk to her again and tell her it is a NO? if she still insist maybe u shld change maid. cos it may be other things in the future.. like having off day etc...
Change maid!
I never allowed any of my maids have HP. So far, I did for all my maid is when they arrive my place, I will buy them one IDD phone card, and they can use the card to call their family just to inform their family that she already settling down.
Really very sick of handling these maid issue. If I can I rather not have a maid... pay them still have to endure the nonsense. I know my this maid character... she can tell lies to agency on why she wanna leave the previous owner... she say she scare of the boy who still wet his bed at home. After she with me for a while, I managed to dig some info. She left because the mdm is a cleaniness freak... make her clean even the sofa 3 times when ppl visit them, the younger daughter always bully her, she purposely locked her door and act no hear when the ger call her to do something. Then the most she cannot endure is the family (malay) 3 meals all eat curry... So she kick up a quarrel with the mdm and ask to return to agency. During her stay in the agency, there is an indian couple who came to interview her, she dun want to eat curry, so she bluff say she dun know how to cook curry when the mdm ask her.... From all these, can tell she is a very smart person... that is why when I manage her, I dun think the stict no no thing will work on her... End up on the surface she might say OK... but she might have something up her sleeves...
There was once my col say, we should treat the maid like one of our family so that they will treat us as one too.... but I think in their heart, they never do... no matter how good u treat them, they are constantly thinking of new pattern. Sometimes they really cannot blame us for treating them or their peers lousy...
This will act as a lesson... nowaday I dun want to assist her in the hse work... I leave the stuffs ard for her to pack and keep loh..... if she too eng later think of things to chu pattern again...
I have decided to get charlotte into infant care... like wat Hazel say, never know wat is the next thing she will ask for... I need to have some back up plan. I have been calling the nearby infant care center. So difficult to get a place... Put my name on a few centers and hopefully they can come back soon b4 some new pattern come out from this idiot maid again.
yah we must xian xiao ren hou jun zhi with them.... be strict first and if they are ok then can relax bah..
is ur maid indonesian??? mine is burmese and she is really good.
u wanna consider burmese maid?
you are already a very good employer liao...i think it's time to change maid, she just don't know how lucky she is. She is taking advantage of your kindness....
now my maid is on the way, i'm scared that i will be handling all these nonsense soon...
Gal, lesson learnt is never help a maid to do wat she is supposed to do. She will not b appreciative. Like wat the rest hav said, u never noe wats on their mind. Gd luck to ur search for infant care. :) Let me noe if u need any help.
Hi gals!!! Thanks for the support... I found an infant care near my mum place... Quite a old center of my first skool but teachers there look quite caring... I also manage to talk to a mummy of a boy in the school... I haven decide if I should change maid cos I might not want the maid anymore. I heard that the quality of indo maid really drop... I was talking to a taxi uncle ytd... He say the burma maid on newspaper in bikini was his maid!!! haha! Then tell me all the story of his entercounter of maid... Wanna find a good maid is as hard as finding good husband! Worse still this "husband" haven fully evalute jiu stay in the same hse as u!
hehehe...he very proud when he told u?
hahha.... he sound angry.... cos he say the 1st maid he got work for him for 6 yrs no problem... then subsequently all problematic one... then he say dun know he suay or wat.
yes i agree with the uncle. maids is all heng suay...
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