I would also like to share my experience. Not to stir anything, but just to vent frustrations and hope this will enlighten someone.
Run Away Myanmar Maid from Maid Specialist @Bukit Timah.
Maid Name: LAL SIAM MAWI
For 10 years I've employed maid, I've used new, but mostly transfer maids. But this trf maid really gave me the shock and I still can not get over!
The "run away" maid was Ex-Singapore and did have a record of 1yr 9months. This maid has 2 HP (1 given to agency n the other agency also do not know).
Till date, I still do not know what happened.
We've gone over to that Agency and interviewed that maid many times to ensure she knows "what is our requirement" before employing her. We also spoke to the recruiter on our needs and work requirements. They highly recommended her and we decided to take, mainly because she can speak English better then the rest.
So we gotten her on 1st Aug 2013 after sending my Indo maid home. She came to our house around 4plus and everything seems ok. She did her work and everything was Yes Mdm/Yes Sir..
Next morning I left her alone at home to get some stuff. When I return home, she was nowhere to be seem. Lucky I've CCTV at home.. anyway to make things short - she ran away - in less than 20 mins and our services was less than 24 hours!
We found her and rtn her to the agency. the recruiter came and the 1st thing she say to her was I thought you say you will listen to me this time". I was so shock to hear this..what do you think that meant? I realised from the Agent that she only listens to that Recruiter!
Anyway till date, we're still waiting to interview maid.
This agency has bad response, we have to call/text/email them for follow ups. They will tell us they've urgent cases on hand and did introduce maid to us, just that we do not want.
I was surprised by the response! Before getting maid from them, the service will good saying they have many maids and a lot of maid agency get maid from them too. they have a large biodata base too.
However, after what had happened, everything changed! no suitable maid, email us all kinds of biodata without filtering (I thought it's their job?)
I'm very disappointed with this situation and worst I can not do anything. We do not have protection from the authorise and are at the mercy of those agency/maids. All $$ paid and not able to get a single cent back. Plus we can not go to other agency if we found suitable maid.
I've 3 kids and now life go haywire! Really upset.
Please think again if you want to use maid from that Agency.