I agree with you people I hired a Myanmar maid 1 week ago.The first day she came to the house she was ok.Next day she started complaining the after eating the home cooked food she is having stomach pain and want to talk to the agent and she spoke to the agent,the agent said it will take some time for her to get adjusted with the food.She tells one thing to me and another thing to the agent.
I told her if every day you are getting stomach pain that means she has some problem and I told her i bring her to see doctor she didnt want to go and see doctor .She started comparing me with other employers and cry everyday at home I was angry and asked her what is her problem she says that she needs to sit with us and eat she needed to treat her as a family memeber, she dont want to wear long pants and high neck tee shirts to the agent she says that she is not getting enough food infact she eats atleast 6 times a day excluding snacks and fruits .She had a chance to talk with some one and started saying she want to go back to the agent we told her once we get a replacement she can go back dont know whom she spoke today she started threatening me saying that if I dont send her that moment she will jump out of the window. I have a small baby at home so cannot send u immediately she lifts finger and talk she shouts and inorder to make me angry she told me you slap think in case if if anger if I loose my temper ,sp that she can complain that the employer beat her up.They leave thier families and come here as they donot have bonding to thier family we cannot expect them to have bonding with us. There are many rules that states that the employer must take care of the maid ,treat them very nice this that and all but I dont know wether the same thing is told to the maid.Today as I could not take the stress we called the agent the agent took her back.We ended up paying up thousands of dollars to the agent and the agent says u transfer her as she has to pay 6 months loan.The surprisng thing is as long as the maid is under our name till she gets transfferred we have to pay her salary as well as levy.As the maids are aware that not even a single pie go from thier pocket and even if we cancel the permit thwe employer need to pay to goback to thier country I dont know what kind of justice is this

I used to think that we are all human beings. As long as i treat my maid well, she will do the same back to me. But i am totally wrong. I gave them angbao and presents on special occassions. When i go shopping, i will also buy snacks for them. But what do i get in the end? All kinds of nonsense.

Basically majority of the maids have the following problems:
1. Lie
2. Lazy
3. Good at pretending
4. Steal (if you are lucky, it could be just food and magazines, otherwise it would be valuable things or money)
5. Running out of the house leaving your kid alone at home
6. Mistreat or abuse your kids (if you are lucky, it could be just didnt feed your kid because of being lazy to do so, otherwise more serious would be beating your kid)
7. No common sense
8. Poor hygiene (it could be just didnt do cleaning, more serious would be like mine that don’t wash her clothes, panties & bra at all)
9. Talking or sms on the phone
10. Talking back
11. Refuse to obey from time to time
12. Gossip

Of course there are some with more serious problems.

Agnes is very right. They have no moral values.

The 3rd “Lilis Sunartin” was the worst of all. I employed in 2009. She couldnt understand english, I have to speak malay to her most of the time, she was extremely unconforming, disrespectful toward employer, defiant and argumentative. You may wonder why I kept her so long. It was because of my baby. She was a mother of 2 teenage children although only 29. I did learned from her some trick to handle babies. I tolerated her and spied on her since her employment. The biggest mistake I made was to listen to my hubby – he said CCTV not required.

My hubby wanted her to learn english, she started dating bangala workers when she was able to communicate a little. She used my handphone to sms to these foreign workers and did not erased the sms. We gave her chance to repent and forgave her having bangala boyfriends. Agent advised me to send her back immediately but we thought we could handle her.

She did not repent and got worst. She brought in mutliple bangala workers and attempt to have sex in my house while my baby girl was watching their performance.

She sneaked out of my house while I was out to gossips with other maids and told my neighbours how bad we treated her etc so my neighbours kept a distant from us. Because, she wanted to bring the workers to my house. She lied telling me that she wanted to call back Indonesia but she contacted bangala workers instead. There were also times I did spot check while she was having her rendevous, she tripped and fell with my baby into the drains.

Finally, My hubby spotted her personal hand phone (she bought herself to call the bangalas) and her diaries with all her bangala contact lists. One of the neighbours also testified the workers trespassed my house. That was how the whole episode came to an end.

We reported to the police and filed a complaint to MOM. She was placed under a administrative ban due to multiple trespass, child abuse and sexual soliciting. You can imagine how outrages this maid can be despite my hubby is a senior police IO.

I urged all employers, please install a CCTV which can be viewed through your Iphone. Never Never Never treat a maid too well, never trust them I am not saying all but many of the INDONESIANS and some filipinas HAVE NO “MORAL VALUES”.

I have changed to a myanmar maid at the moment. Hope she is more evolved and spiritual. Being a buddhist herself, I pray she may impose moral restriction on herself.

Agnes
Nov 2011