Sigh, I so want to rant about my maid. Makes me want to give up having a maid totally.
Earlier this week my maid requested to meet her sister who's also working in Singapore. She said her sister will come to the MRT station to meet her. So I asked what time and the date. She can tell me 3 Jan Saturday. I immediately pointed out that 3 Jan is Sunday, NOT Saturday. So I told her to go check out which date.
Then after thinking for abit, the next day I said I will bring her to her sister's employer's house instead so I told her to get the address from her sister. And I also told her that this will be the one and only time because it was already stated that she will not have off-days.
Plus I queried her, why she needs to see her sister, after the last time she requested to see her sister during Hari Raya holiday because her sister is going back to Indonesia when I was going to Bali. That time, I told her, my parents will bring her see her sister since I was out of town. Long story short, that time she didn't manage to meet her sister due to unforseen circumstances.
My maid told me her sister that time went back Indo 2 weeks then come back again. So I told her only this time, cos what if she got sister A and sister B etc then request to meet up?
I also told her to get the address but she never even said anything even up til yday.
Anyway, yday afternoon, her sister actually called my mum's place. My brother picked up the call and of course, he didn't know what was going on when her sister requested to speak to my maid about the meeting today. So he told her to call me but of course my maid's sister doesn't have my contact number.
So last night, I told my maid her sister called and asked her to give me her sister's hp number for me to call so that I can tell her that I will bring my maid over.
I called but no response, so I told my maid if she knows her sister's employer's address and she promptly took out a piece of paper with the address!
I mean, c'mon, if you knew it, you should have told me earlier right?! Then I can just tell her sister that I'll bring my maid over.
Somehow, I just could not reach her sister's mobile even at 2.30PM around the time they arranged to meet!!
Best part of the story is, my mum called me to say my maid's sister called and said she's on the way to Simei. But ended up just as I was talking on the phone with my mum and she's telling me this, my maid said she saw her sister from her carpark!
This makes me feel so bloody uneasy. I never told my maid my home address, though she can pretty much know from all the letters that my hb left around(which I already told him not to, as she can peek at his letters, he just leaves them lying around). And her sister comes all the way to my block.
It's like they already pre-arranged when my intention is to bring my maid over because I don't want her sister to know where I live.
I feel like I'm inviting a time bomb cos I really don't know if she has some agenda.
Although I said this will be the one and only time, but I think there will be more to come.
Then before I went down to pick her up, she came up herself! So I said, did your sister pass you anything, cos I want her to declare. She said don't have. But not even few min, she said she wanted to pass something to her sister but I said, no I never see her sister around and she said her sister still at the void deck at the block opposite me!! wa lau, so she got bionic eyes HUH?!
Then, I went down with her, found her sister sitting at those stone stools at the void deck but she took off her slippers and sit in those ah seng style. After my maid passed her the photo of her kids, her sister started to take something from her wallet and passed her a $50 note. I opened my eyes big and my maid said she wants to send $ back. I said ok wait til this month pay, then she got enough $ to send back, cos I ever told her must wait till have at least S$1K in the account then can send back, cos I open POSB account which must have min $500 cash balance. I said I will keep for her and bank into her account.
I feel this whole thing is machian zhuo1 xi4.
Now my concern is, I bloody feel invasion of privacy. I mean for those of you who give your maids off day, do their sisters come to your place? Then also, from this whole thing, is there any hidden agenda or problem?
Not sure if I'm being sensitive but my mind is in a blur. After I related this whole incident to my mum, she wants to send her cos to her, this maid is dishonest. On my way to the lift to bring her down to see her sister, I asked how come her sister knows my address, when the initial arrangement is to meet at Simei MRT? Then she said maybe her husband told her sister but I questioned how her husband knows? She said she told her husband, as there was one time she requested to have her husband send photos to her so she sought my permission and my mum's permission as we wanted her to send to my mum's place instead of mine. Cos the initial employer's address on her work permit was at my mum's. She said end up her husband sent to my mum's place even though she gave him my address?!!
Anyway, I told my mum, I will prob keep her till Chevelle goes CC cos she was so adamant to send her away. But I told my mum to cool down. And after Chevelle goes CC, I prob don't want to have any maid.
Before my hb left for his bball session, he said what's wrong with letting her meet up with her sister. He said if I don't, I'm like treating her like a slave?! I said, if I anyhow let her go out, then if got probs bring back home, he will then start to blame me hor.! He said, like that I'm so particular, I might as well change maids every 6 months. I said I may want to do without maid totally after sending Chevelle to CC, and he remarked then who's going to do the household chores?!
I said I totally don't like the way that she tell our home address to her sister without my back, that end up her sister come all the way to our house. I mean she could have asked me, then I will tell her.
Sorry for the long post but it's really frustrating here...
