zenn,
she is ex-malaysia n ex-taiwan. she has a lot of attitude. really dunno what to do now. that night, after i posted my last message, i went downstairs n saw to my horror that she din throw the rubbish in the rubbish bin n my bb's clothes were sitting in a laundry basket in between that uncleared bin n the mopping pail. ants were all over the bin n basket cos the rubbish wasn't cleared after dinner. told her so many times to throw out the rubbish after clearing dinner, but she just refuses.
she finally figured out that i was really pissed off yesterday, so yesterday night when i returned home, she did everything that i've been telling her to do since she arrived. i'm puzzling abt whether to give her another chance.
1) i told her to wake up by 7pm to wash up the kitchen in time for breakfast. she's usually up by 6. i always give maids an alarm clock, cos sometimes we still need her to wake up earlier, e.g. if we hv to catch an early flight n need her up to prepare breakfast.
2) yes, i wake up early on 2nd day. if ur morning schedule is very heavy n the maid is inexperienced, think u might need to wake up early for a few days. for my previous maid, i woke up early for 2 days (sunday n monday) to check that she is actually doing everything correctly. for this maid, she's very experienced, n she speaks mandarin, so giving instructions is v. easy, it's an issue of whether she wants to follow the instructions.
3) heh, i dun eat breakfast too, but hubby does. i dun designate breakfast stuff for the maid, but my house always has bread, butter/jam, eggs n instant noodles, n i let her know that she has free access to those. she gets her share of halal canned food n frozen fish. when she's hungry for whichever meal, she can prepare what she wishes from those. my previous maid varies her breakfast based on what she feels like eating. i've even seen her eat leftover rice with egg n canned sardines as breakfast. this current one barely eats anything, even though she told me she doesn't need to fast.
occasionally, we do buy biscuits n other snacks specially for her, but that's more the exception than the norm.