<font color="ff6000">Good Morning Ladies</font>
YEAH!! Today got sun shining.
<font color="ff0066"> Ladies wz maids</font>,
I need some advise here. This is my 3rd maid liaoz.. and I tink gotta change her. The story is... this maid got 12-years experience in SG as maid, but transfer cos the last family is expat returning at end of their contract, so dun need her. She seem ok with good attitude at the agency, though kinda old (40-yrs). So I pay her quite high salary of $450 cos she can cook, clean, everything. No need to train at all. First 6-months, her work and attitude is good. Won't say excellent. But cooking is really good cos she can cook lasagne, spaghetti, all types of chinese food, etc. Housework also done promptly. Problem starts after I shifted from HDB to Condo. All sorts of pattern come out.
This is what she did... and we discovered:
1) Always neglect to tell us my gals pampers are finishing, till totally no more. She has to run down to NTUC at night (9-pm) to buy.
2) Steal my hubby's wine to drink. From half bottle became quarter bottle.
3) Opened up my new packet of cherries and eat before me. Took quarter of the packet.
4) Keep wasting water for me by on-ing the tap full blast - even juz to wash a simply small rag.
5) Never lock my main door & gate before she goes to bed - usually she's the last one cos she goes to bed at 10pm.
6) Never give my gals breakfast to eat before sending them to school cos she said the school will feed.
7) When visitors come, she never come out of the kitchen to greet them or offer drinks, etc. Everything I do myself.
8) Worse... at my J2's recent B-Day party, she actually sat down with my MIL and start chatting with her. Can even help herself to the food whilst my guests are around without asking me first! Behave like she's the hostess instead of maid.
9) When point out her mistakes... she'll say sorry reluctantly. Sometimes can even answer back wor!
The list goes on and on.
After a good talk with her... I discovered that what she wants is a pay rise of another $50. That will make her salary S$500 man!! Feel like being extorted. Not like as if my condo is a mansion. Somemore her perks/benefits are as follows already:
1) Her daily working hours are from 7am - 10pm. She can nap in afternoon if all the work is finished.
2) Every Sunday off
3) Every PH off
4) Weekdays, my gals go off to FULL DAY childcare, she only needs to concentrate on doing the housework and cooking.
5) We dun shout at her or call her nasty names.
6) No restrictions on the food she eats (except she cannot touch the expensive stuff like my hub's liquor, cavier, smoked salmon, etc). She's even allowed to drink my 3-in-1 coffee mix, milo, horlicks, eat the cheese spread, etc. Somemore if I'm having salmon or cod fish for dinner and got leftover, she's welcomed to finish it.
But seems like all these still not good enough for her!! Help!!
Question is... should I change her??!!
So sorry for this long-winded posting. I need to get some advise desparately.
Thankfully, I've stopped work liaoz. But I still need some help when no.3 "pops" out cos I dun have any family to reply on. How...???
