Dear All,
Please be aware of this fdw from Indon by the name of Cartilage.The following is my request to mom to have her blacklisted.
Dear Sir / Madam,
I am writing to request for my fdw Carti (Work Permit No. 0 06125999 Passport Number: U 111494) blacklisted.
Please be patient as I give you a background of her duties so that you can better understand how relaxed her work is.
She has been under my employment for 6.5 months and due to be repatriated on 29 April 2013. I live in a newly renovated with a minimalist look (littl furniture and clutter free) 4 room HDB flat with my husband, who is 90% out of Singapore, and my 4.5yr old daughter who is in full day childcare from 8.30am-5.30pm.
Thus, Carti only does general housework and cooks 1 meal (or none at all 3-4 times a week). I left my job because of my fear of this fdw who does not have to look after my child. The only thing she helps me with is the ocassional shower for my girl.
These are the genuine reasons to substantiate my request for the blacklist:
1) She uses the phone till 2+am everyday until I confiscated the phone at night. Come the next morning, she will complain of headaches and the inability to work. In the day, she will hide in the toilet for about 2 hours, complaining of tummy ache, everyday!
2) She forgets to switch off fires at least 6x a week. Thus I have to be at home to watch the fire if I need her to cook dinner.
3) She leaves the tap running at least twice a day, then arguing that she turned it off!
4) She leaves the house keys dangling outside the gate at least 4 times a week. Thus I have to ensure that she keeps the keys and has No reason to open the gate after that.
5) Every time I need help to shower my child, one of these will definitely happen (a.She forgets to switch on the heater and leaves my girl wet and cold while rushing out to switch it on only after my girl shrills because of the cold water; b. She forgets to close the toilet door and will only react when my girl shrills in the cold; c. She forgets to switch off the heater which will be left switched on till I'm home; d. She forgets to bring in my girl's towel / clothes and again my girl will be left wet and cold)
6. She forgets to close the windows at least 5 times a week. The best part is that she can close one panel, forget to do so for the window next to it but still roll the blinds down!
7. She will forget to switch on her alarm at least 5 times a week. Thus, I have never been able to ensure that my girl will be on time for the school bus if I do not wake up early to do her chores.
8. All of her chores are done halfway (if I am lucky, most of the times, she forgets to do them). The kitchen scissors for cutting foods, cutlery etc will be washed with oil and food residues left to dry which simply means they are not properly washed. This happens every single day.
9. Things destroyed to date, just to name a few - crockery, electrical appliances, bathroom appliances, clothes, beds, bedsheets, wardrobes, bamboo sticks,pole covers... you name it!
10. She forgets to cover my girl's water bottle, at least 3 times a week so my girl's things in the bag will all be wet.
11. Everyday, she will forget something needed foe my girl's school. I have a checklist written for this fdw, all she needs is to read the list but she refuses and says she doesn't know why!
12. If she is required to cook dinner, every single time, she will forget to cook either a dish or the rice. A note is written in details but she refuses to read it (note is written in clear bahasa Indonesian eg. Masak 1.Nasi 2.Sayur Kailan 3.Ikan Goreng).
13. She forgets to secure the covers of everything you can imagine / every item that comes with a cover (caps from bottles of cooking oil, cod liver oil, vitamins, soya sauce, dark soya sauce). Yes, all of these spilled all over the floor and I ended up cleaning because she will not clean it up properly and then I will see the ants and roaches.
14. Believe it or not, she will open a drawer, cupboard door etc and forget to close it! This happens at least 6 times a day. Yes, at least 6 times a day.
15. The emotional craziness saying that she cannot talk / work because her friend ordered voodoo on her! Then she will start talking to herself incessantly.
Throughout these month I have done all I can. I have given her a daily schedule since she came but she refuses to read it. When asked why, she will say "I forgot to read". Her agent has helped counseling her to No avail. I have explained to her repeatedly that her forgetfulness is dangerous, the possibilities and consequences, begged her to just read the schedule.This is done through speaking English, Indonesian but she doesn't care. I have given her a note book to write down what she always forgets in hope it can help her. She refuses and finds herself an excellent worker!
There has never been a day without forgetting at least 5 tasks which are routine (eg. Forgets to close the washing machine door). She will argue and argue until I retrieve the cctv records and she will say that the machine is spoilt so the door cannot close or better still, that my cctv is faulty!
I asked her to go out on her off day and relax, consult with the better fdws. However, she comes back with a vengeance. On the phone throughout and forgetfulness is intensified. No amount of counseling, explaining, positive reinforcement helps.
There were many occasions that my pots were burnt because she had forgotten that the flames were on. The house is under risk of fires and my kitchen has been flooded many, many times because she left the door open.
To give you an even better example of her slack, she takes 3 minutes to walk from the kitchen to the room!
I consider her to be mentally abnormal or at least an award winning deserving fdw to pretend to be like one who cannot remember anything except off days, meal times, salary dates and numerous telephone numbers! She has caused a lot of distress and stress to my family and I to a point that I had to immediately request to be discharged from the hospital right after my operation - because I saw over the cctv that my girl was left alone in the kitchen near the stove which pot was on an open fire and smoke coming out. This fdw was hiding in the toilet and didn't pick up the house phone which I was frantically calling all the way home.
On a last note, on the first day I got her from the agency, she clapped estactically against her lap declaring this: "I am so happy that Ah Ma died. Allah is very good to me. Ah Ma so smelly and heavy and fat, Allah so good to me to help Ah Ma to die!".
I should have acted on that comment but know too that MOM watches only the number of fdws in my name and never the reasons We as employers are not fools who chase good fdws away to go through more money, time and efforts spent in training them.
