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Philipino and Indon maids working together - anyone has experience? [複製鏈接]

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Wanna see if anyone has experience of hiring both indon. and philipino maid to work together in the same house ...

I know this is probably not an easy task, but our reasons for so doing are:

- we now have an indonesian maid whose performance is excellent ... she takes care of our 14 months old daughter, plus all house-works ... she does absolutely great ..

- we will be having our second baby very soon, so need 1 more helper

- as my daugher is starting to learn to speak, i think it will be better to hire a philipino whose english will be better

- we are also worried that if we hire 2 indonesians, they will talk in indonesian all day long (we don't have anyone at home during day-time but the helpers and the kids) - worried that my daughter will easily pick up Indonesian as her "first language" ... this will also be very confusing for her when she already needs to learn both cantonese and english ...

- our indon. maid is good and so we will renew the contract with her next year ...

but we are worried whether indonesian and philipino maids can get along well in the same household ... ... anyone with experience can share?

Thanks !

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From my experience, Phil maid always think that they are superior to yan yan(only they think). & yan yan mostly don't like to share work with others no matter yan yan or phil. There are conflicts between these 2 nations.
Even I hired 2 yan yan, the old one 兜巴星the new one because the one one is too slow & stupid. You can't immagine how 冷血they are. I would suggest you keep the good yan yan but hire a local part time ee to share the work(takes care of the nb baby). Otherwise you will be facing lots of arguements & complaints later.

原帖由 bluigugub 於 10-12-13 11:34 發表
Wanna see if anyone has experience of hiring both indon. and philipino maid to work together in the same house ...

I know this is probably not an easy task, but our reasons for so doing are:

- we ...

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原帖由 yesmam 於 10-12-13 12:35 發表
From my experience, Phil maid always think that they are superior to yan yan(only they think). & yan yan mostly don't like to share work with others no matter yan yan or phil. There are conflicts betw ...

Thanks ~ I agree 'cos we have mentioned to our existing yan yan that we will have to recruit one more helper ... she then told my mom (during chatting) that she doesn't like it 'cos from her friends' experience, there will be lots of arguments ... she even suggested that she does not mind taking up extra works after the 2nd baby is born ... so i couldn't quite imagine how her reaction would be after she knows the 2nd helper will be a philipino ...

but the idea of having a part-time may not work for us 'cos there is just too much works to do and both myself and my husband work till rather late at night time ... ...

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i agree to having a local part-time EE to help rather. Since your maid said she was not willing to work and live with another maid.

When I interviewed the broken-contract maids, some told me that they were not happy when working together with another maid.

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my home right now is:-
Indo + Philipino.

Perfect match. Because I no need worry they playing tricks. Coz they will not become best friends. Just working.

If same nationality, Must DIE.

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原帖由 Loreal 於 10-12-13 16:02 發表
my home right now is:-
Indo + Philipino.

Perfect match. Because I no need worry they playing tricks. Coz they will not become best friends. Just working.

If same nationality, Must DIE.

Did they quarrel a lot? Or will any of them act as if she is more superior? Need to give them very clear guidelines on who is to be responsible for what ??

Grateful if you could share more, thanks in advance!

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Bun bun must think she is more superior. When Bun Bun want to show me how Yan Yan stupid, I will pretend not a big deal.

And my Bun Bun will do more because she doesnt want to argue w Yan Yan, coz she feel waste energy w Yan Yan. Just finish the job in very short time.

Guidelines is a must ~ if not they will no idea which part they need to handle.

Communicate is very important and need to be fairness to them.

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I had 1 indo maid + 1 phil maid for 2 months.

I employed an indo maid for 4 years. She said she had to go back to Indo and get married. Thus, I employed a phil maid and let them had two months to work together so that the indo maid could show and hand over the daily works to the phil. maid.

Maybe both of them knew that it was just a transitional period. They worked very well. The indo. knew limited English only and phil. maid knew nothing about indo / cantonese. What surprise me was they could communicate very well. They said they had some terms in common in both indo and phil though sometimes I had to be the translator.

I have two daughter (4 and 2 years old). I changed to use phil. maid because I want to provide an environment for my daughters to speak English. Now, they really speak more English. Furthermore, I need not to train the new maid again because my indo maid had already hand over and shown her the tasks.

I think whether the two maids can work together really depends on their personality. If your existing maid already claimed that she doesn't want to work with another maid, it is difficult to employed an extra maid. The local part-time helper is only a temporary solution. When your elder child grows up, she may have to attend a lot of interest classes. You can't expect one helper can bring both of them out together as the smaller one may need to sleep. The local part-time helper can be the temporary solution to take care the baby at home. However, when the baby grows up and need to attend interest classes. It may be difficult to have the local part-time helper to take him / her to the classes as she may need to wait for 1 or 2 hour(s) each time and it is difficult to decide the hourly rate for her (do nothing during the classes but keep waiting).

I am a full-time mum and I need to bring my elder daughter out to different classes everyday. Next year, my small daughter will also attend interest classes and thus I need my maid to bring one of them. Thus, you may have to think it throughly if this situation also applies to your case.

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原帖由 MugTung 於 10-12-13 17:04 發表
I had 1 indo maid + 1 phil maid for 2 months.

I employed an indo maid for 4 years. She said she had to go back to Indo and get married. Thus, I employed a phil maid and let them had two months to w ...

Thanks for sharing.

I agree that getting a part-time local helper is not workable in my case since, as you rightly pointed out, one of the maids will have to bring my daughter to attend pre-nursery class next year ... she will have to wait there for at least 3 hours ('cos the school is not too close to home) ... i expect that the maid can go to the market during the waiting-period, and so i definitely need another maid to stay at home to take care of the baby ... so my only solution will be to get 2 maids ...

you exactly get my point ... my major (only) concern is the language problem. but for this issue, i would definitely go for Indon. maid 'cos i think they are comparatively simpler ... but to avoid having 2 indon. maids at home chatting in indonesian all the times, i have no alternative to but to get an Indon. and a Philipino...

good to know your 2 maids work well, but i am afraid it will be very different as mine would not be a temporary arrangement ...

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I will have a part time maid coming in from 8.30am-4.30pm, Mon-Fri to take care of my new born in Feb, 2011.

My son goes to school at 12.30-4.45pm. He is now in K3. He has extra activities mainly in the mornings and Sat / Sundays. I have arranged teachers to come to my place instead of going to classes for this year already! I think it's a very good solution as I don't need to waste time in traveling! e.g. English/Mandarin/drawing/piano. The only things I need to bring him are Maths and Swimming. On Sat / Sun, my husband brings my son to choir/swimming/rugby.

I am a stay-home mom and my maid mainly do cleaning/cooking and go to market/supermarket (or sometimes we go together). I take care of my son myself. My mom will come to take care of my son when I need to go out.

I also had a problem in whether to have a 2nd bun / yan at first. But my bun said she could do extra work and help me to take care of the new born bb. Now she has about 1-2hours rest in the afternoon when I take afternoon nap (I told her to stay in her room and not to walk around/make any noise when I sleep!! haha)

She starts to work at 6am and finishes all her work by 9pm every night. So I think she will have time to do extra washing of milk bottles/baby clothes/etc....when the baby arrives!!!

原帖由 bluigugub 於 10-12-13 18:09 發表

Thanks for sharing.

I agree that getting a part-time local helper is not workable in my case since, as you rightly pointed out, one of the maids will have to bring my daughter to attend pre-nurser ...